Thursday May 07, 2009
Posted by Edwin Bennatan
Counterpoint to:
A step toward ending Israel's impunity
The appointment of Richard Goldstone to head a United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip represents an important first step toward ending Israel's impunity from international law.
George Bisharat
The Baltimore Sun
April 16, 2009
In 1999, two Chinese military officers, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, wrote a book entitled Unrestricted Warfare. In it, the two authors propose tactics that, in the event of a high-tech war, would compensate developing countries, in particular China, for their military inferiority to the United States.
The authors view the 1991 Gulf War, with all its complex political alliances, battle technology, and global media coverage, as a pivotal point in warfare that has fostered new principles and battlefields unfamiliar to today's professional military people. Among these new battlefields the authors list media warfare (manipulating what people see and hear) and international law warfare (using the law as a weapon - later dubbed 'lawfare').
Thursday Jan 08, 2009
Posted by Edwin Bennatan
Counterpoint to:
Looking past Gaza
"The short-sighted refusal to talk to the Hamas Islamists encouraged Israel to continue and intensify its blockade, provoked Hamas's subsequent increasingly violent response, victimised the population of Gaza, and has made it much harder to stop the fighting once it started."
Simon Tisdall
The Guardian (London)
December 7, 2008
Anyone who has been following the international press over the past two weeks is undoubtedly familiar with the downpour of news reports, opinion pieces, op-eds, editorials, and other commentaries on the war in Gaza that have been virtually dominating much of the world media. While this is certainly not unexpected in the Arab and Islamic press, it is a surprising phenomenon in the European media where it far surpassed the 2006 Lebanon war.
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JoeG from USA: Lets face it, Israel has no intentions of given the Palestines their own state. They are critized because of there disreguard for the palestines in every way and there collective punishment practices toward these people. Most of the world see this, and comments on it...That's the news you hear. The whole world can't be wrong, but that does not matter because just like the comment made above "If we go down we are taking the rest of the world with us". This is extermely dangerious because they have the weapons to do a lot of damage and they have no problem with collective punishment...
Jason Toronto: also we must be reminded of the billions of oil dollars, which palestinians have never seen. if arabs were so worried about palestinians, why aren't they sharing the wealth. there would be refugees perhaps, but healthy educated and rich ones.
Jay Goldberg, Illinois, USA: Richard Pearce (#31): Hold on a second, ...Desmond who? Oh, you mean the guy who equates Zionism with racism? And who has said that "in Israel non-Jews are considered lesser human beings", and when Jews objected to his depiction of South African apartheid as being just like the Holocaust,, he called their objections "Jewish arrogance". You mean the guy who compared the Israeli policy toward Palestinians to how Adolf Hitler treated Jews? And the guy who was banned from a Minnesotan university because of his anti-Semitic remarks. You mean THAT Desmond Tutu?
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