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Israel Losing PR Battle Under Bush's 'War on Terror' Flag
Taylor Marsh — ... An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal has a jarring headline for anyone pro Israel: Israel Is Committing War Crimes: Hamas’s violations are no justification for Israel’s actions. The definition of "war crimes" should not make Bush or Cheney rest easy or travel very far. But our friend Israel is headed for a bigger PR defeat than Lebanon ’06, which was also a military disaster for Olmert. Attempting to balance that neither side is perfect, the writer comes to this judgment of Israel’s crimes: Israel’s American-made F-16s and ...

WSJ OP-ED BY BIHSARAT: SUPPORT FOR HAMAS AND AN IDIOTIC ATTACK ON ISRAEL
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — BISHARAT'S OPENING: Israel Is Committing War Crimes Hamas's violations are no justification for Israel's actions. The United Nations charter preserved the customary right of a state to retaliate against an "armed attack" from another state. The right has evolved to cover nonstate actors operating beyond the borders of the state claiming self-defense, and arguably would apply to Hamas. However, an armed attack involves serious violations of the peace. Minor border skirmishes are common, and if all were considered armed attacks, ...

WSJ Gives Equal Time to Asshats
Ace of Spades HQ — WSJ Gives Equal Time to Asshats Since its acquisition by News Corp., the Wall Street Journal opinion pages have been entertaining a wider set of views from the Left. Or, in this case a law professor so far left he's living in a different universe. Meet law professor George Bisharat . Bisharat claims that Israel cannot currently be acting in self-defense because it did not suffered an "armed attack" immediately preceding its attack on Hamas. Consequently, according to Bisharat, Israel's war is a "war of aggression" and a "crime against peace." (Antisemitic Subtext: this is what ...

A War Crime Doesn't Excuse A War Crime
Newshoggers.com — ... By Cernig Prof. George Bisharat, Hastings College of the Law, writing in the WSJ: Israel's current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior Israeli political and military leaders may bear personal liability for their offenses, and they could be prosecuted by an international tribunal, or by nations practicing universal jurisdiction over grave international crimes. Hamas fighters have also violated the laws of warfare, but their ...

So NOW they want to investigate war crimes?
Comments from Left Field — ... narrative. This is only natural.  People instinctively ignore and filter the world to fit their preconceived notions.  This is a mistake though, and it’s not one I’ll be a part of.  You want to be taken seriously on the subject?  Know the history, but don’t obsess over it.  Know the laws, don’t invent them.  Know both sides, don’t become a propaganda tool. This is an ugly conflict that will likely get worse before it gets better but this single-sided Israel bashing has got to stop.

Meet The Samounis
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... on one single clan caught in the crossfire is useful, if brutal and sobering. One wonders what Washington's opinion would be if thirty members of a single Jewish family were killed - even unintentionally - in the Middle Eastern conflict. No wonder talk of war crimes is surfacing, even in the Wall Street Journal. And Arab opinion seems increasingly moving toward Hamas. The chance of the PA establishing some post-war stability in Gaza certainly seems more remote. And the emergence of a poetntial terrorist training and recruiting ground in a failed and radicalized society in Gaza ...

Context Matters
Comments from Left Field — ... George Bisharat has penned an op-ed on Israel’s military actions in Gaza, which appears in — of all places — today’s Wall Street Journal: ...

The First Thing We Do...
Weekly Standard Blog — ... This piece in today's Journal by George Bisharat, professor of law at UC Hastings, is breathtaking in both its presumption and its inability to substantiate the allegations that are, for a lawyer, recklessly cast about. Bisharat writes: ...

If Israel has lost the Murdoch Wall Street Journal, it's lost everyone
Brilliant at Breakfast — When even the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, a reliable outpost of wingnuttia, says Israel is committing war crimes, they and the knee-jerkers here at home ought to listen: ...

Gaza and War Crimes
Israpundit — ... The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have seen a slew of op-eds covering the legitimacy of the Israeli offensive since it began. On January 10th, a WSJ article entitled Israel Is Committing War Crimes was a riposte to a very well crafted article in the WSJ two days prior by Benjamin Netanyahu titled ...