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TPMCafe: Will Nancy Pelosi and George Miller Allow Passage of Resolution Bashing The Goldstone Report On Gaza War Crimes?
Taylor Marsh: House Res. Against Goldstone Report Doesn’t Help Israel
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RT @mattyglesias: Last sentence of Goldstone resolution could be an endorsement of a possible Israeli attack on Iran: http://bit.ly/2UKcZI 10/30/2009 |
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RT @mattyglesias:last sentence of this Goldstone resolution could B a endorsement of a possible Israeli attack on Iran: http://bit.ly/2UKcZI 10/30/2009 |
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Very last sentence of this Goldstone resolution could be an endorsement of a possible Israeli attack on Iran: http://bit.ly/2UKcZI 10/30/2009 |
Goldstone, Continued, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
AIPAC prepares a resolution. It reads like Michael Goldfarb in a bad mood. This passage is interesting:
Whereas the concept of `universal jurisdiction’ has frequently been
used in attempts to detain, charge, and prosecute Israeli and United
States officials and former officials in connection with unfounded
allegations of war crimes and has often unfairly impeded the travel of
those individuals;
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Will Nancy Pelosi and George Miller Allow Passage of Resolution Bashing The Goldstone Report On Gaza War Crimes?
TPMCafe —
... It is hard to imagine that the United States Congress can outdo its own record of rousing support for any and all Israeli actions and policies. But now, according to a report by Spencer Ackerman in the Washington Independent, it is preparing to do just that. ...
House Res. Against Goldstone Report Doesn’t Help Israel
Taylor Marsh —
... investigated two destroyed mosques-one where worshippers were killed-and we found no evidence that either was used as anything but a place of worship. – MJ Rosenberg
Michael Goldfarn has found another club. Never mind that it won’t do Israel much good to go after J Street, because condemning the Goldstone report will just ignite the usual suspects to say that Israel won’t take responsibility for its actions.
Spencer Ackerman has the text of the House resolution: ...
WP: Democratic House To Pass Resolution Endorsing Israel's Actions in Gaza War on Tuesday
TPMCafe —
... knows how many other US military actions (often rightly) go mute when it comes to Israel. In fact, most of them do. In other words, they are courageous when there is no cost for it.
Passing this resolution will damage US security by stating to the world that when Bibi asks us to jump, we jump even higher. (Note to Congress: Did you ever consider just saying you don't agree with Goldstone's findings or did AIPAC reject that approach?)
Here is the Post story. Here is the resolution. Here is a Jewish Telegraphic Agency report by its fine reporter, ...
MJ Rosenberg: Dems in House to Pass Resolution Defending Gaza War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and God knows how many other US military actions (often rightly) go mute when it comes to Israel. In fact, most of them do. In other words, they are courageous when there is no cost for it.
Passing this resolution will damage US security by stating to the world that when Bibi asks us to jump, we jump even higher. (Note to Congress: Did you ever consider just saying you don't agree with Goldstone's findings or did AIPAC reject that approach?)
Here is the resolution.
Next week: the names of the Democrats who vote for it, ...
US Words Thwart Middle East Peace
Commondreams.org Views —
... last December. The House just might be ready to back away, at least an inch or two, from its usual knee-jerk support for whatever the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee tells it to do. The 148 members of Congress who joined the Host Committee for the recent J Street Conference were yet another sign that change is possible. But real change will come only if our representatives get a lot of very loud calls from a lot of constituents. Before you go to the phone, you can read the resolution along with a ...
