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salon.com - 12/30/2008

George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II) University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes -- July 1, 2008... : A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that in 14 of them people mostly say their government should not take sides in the ... (more) George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards ...

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commentarymagazine.com - 12/31/2008

What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?

— commentarymagazine.com — “If someone was sending rockets on my house where my daughters were sleeping at night, I would... do everything to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” – President-elect Barack Obama Now that Hamas’s long war against Israel is ... (more) What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?

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corner.nationalreview.com - 12/31/2008

The Sense of Proportion

— corner.nationalreview.com — Over at my Washington Post discussion group, I respond to claims that Israeli military action has been... excessive: The traditional just-war standard is that military action should be "proportionate" in that it causes fewer harms than it seeks to ... (more) The Sense of Proportion

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Israel and the "proportionality" canard
TigerHawk — ... does not mean that military means must inflict only as much pain as the enemy has inflicted. Now, you might argue that because Hamas has been recently ineffective at killing Israelis, the current assault is in fact inflicting more harm than it seeks to prevent. That logic is highly suspect; the point is not to prevent minor harms, but much bloodier future attacks that will no doubt occur if Hamas is not both interdicted and deterred, of which more below. More on the legal arcana from Andy McCarthy here . The geopolitical argument ought to be more persuasive than the legal to ...

Disproportionate idiocy
Power Line — ... that war is supposed to begin and the date when it must end. 6) Send Israeli military advisers to Hamas to improve the accuracy of their missiles. 7) Take down the barriers to return to Hamas a fair chance of getting suicide bombers back inside Israel. Fans of the idiotic version of "proportionality" that Hanson mocks will be glad to know that Hamas is pounding southern Israel with rockets. Michael Totten, Ramesh Ponnuru and Andrew McCarthy also shed light on the question of "proportionality."

Israel's action in Gaza: disproportionate? No
Jihad Watch — The always insightful and informative Andrew McCarthy explains why at The Corner: I have an article coming soon which calls (among other things) for a complete reappraisal of what "international law" means in the context of the ongoing conflict. I argue that there is no international law of warfare because Israel, like the U.S., has wisely declined to join the 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. It has therefore not consented to Protocol I's effort to convert warfare from a military campaign into a hyper-legal regulatory exercise that favors ...

Guns Abroad, Guns At Home
Discriminations — I’ve just been reading (HatTip to Andy McCarthy) an outstanding article on the laws of war (or lack thereof) by David Rivkin and Lee Casey. I highly recommend the whole (long) article, but, sucker for ironies, contradictions, hypocrisies that I am, I was especially struck by Rivkin’s and Casey’s discussion of one of the reasons the United States has steadfastly refused to sign on to the Protocol I Amendments (1977) to the Geneva Convention (1949). Those amendments, they write, were directed at two goals, the first of which concerns me here: ...