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Informed Comment — ... This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who agree with it just reprint it so that it is everywhere in the blogosphere. It is a succinct and cogent refutation of the reigning right-Zionist talking points that have dominated American media reporting on this atrocity. ...
A War Crime, Not Self-Defense
Suburban Guerrilla —
... This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who agree with it just reprint it so that it is everywhere in the blogosphere. It is a succinct and cogent refutation of the reigning right-Zionist talking points that have dominated American media reporting on this atrocity. ...
The Goldstone commission: A kangaroo court report
Yourish.com —
... Christine Chinkin signed a letter dated January 11, 2009, which appeared in The Times, stating: “Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime.” ...
The Goldstone Commission: Biased from the outset
Israel Matzav —
... last March stating that events in Gaza had ‘shocked us to the core’ and calling for an investigation into ‘crimes perpetrated against civilians by both sides.’ So all three have already declared Israel guilty of such crimes – and as for the other side, their abuses lie outside the Commission’s scope. Now look at the fourth member of this objective ‘fact-finding’ Commission, Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics. Last January, she signed a letter in the Times which stated: ‘Israel's bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence - it's ...
Fisking Goldstone
Israel Matzav —
... Richard Goldstone had an op-ed in Thursday's New York Times defending his 'commission's report on Operation Cast Lead. Richard Landes does a masterful job of fisking it paragraph by paragraph. Here's a small excerpt: I accepted because my fellow commissioners are professionals committed to an objective, fact-based investigation. The case against the composition of his committee — not one person sympathetic to Israel, at least one, Christine Chinkin, openly hostile — has led two groups of lawyers, in England and in Canada , to ...
Ben-Dror Yemini: Goldstone is the Criminal
Solomonia —
... It is not only the lie in the first paragraph. It goes on. In order to supply the goods, Professor Christine Chinkin, an expert on international law, was recruited to the mission, for example. There is only one problem. Before being appointed to the mission, Chinkin signed a petition that determined in advance that Israel had perpetrated war crimes. Can someone who took a position in advance sit on the mission? And indeed, the mission was presented with a legal suit for her dismissal. The suit was denied. There is absolutely no difference between the ...
Mary Robinson says to listen Goldstone anyway
Israel Matzav —
... last March stating that events in Gaza had ‘shocked us to the core’ and calling for an investigation into ‘crimes perpetrated against civilians by both sides.’ So all three have already declared Israel guilty of such crimes – and as for the other side, their abuses lie outside the Commission’s scope. ... In January, Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics ... signed a letter in the Times which stated: ‘Israel's bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence - it's a war crime.’ It went on: ‘The rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas ...
Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law
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... mission member Christine Chinkin, an internationally respected British scholar of international law, feminist jurisprudence, alternative dispute resolution, and human rights. The resolution questions her objectivity by claiming that "before joining the mission, [she] had already declared Israel guilty of committing atrocities in Operation Cast Lead by signing a public letter on January 11, 2009, published in the Sunday Times , that called Israel's actions 'war crimes.'" In reality, the letter didn't accuse Israel of "atrocities," but simply noted that Israel's attacks ...
