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South African Lawfare
worldpoliticsreview.com - 21 days ago
South African Lawfare
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World Politics Blog Home | Blog | South African Lawfare South African Lawfare Judah Grunstein | Bio | 02 Nov 2009 Another lawfare development to keep your eye on, this one in South Africa. Apparently the investigations that went into the Goldstone Report also turned up evidence of South African ...

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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... would perish From Norwegian: In 1943 Haakon Lie wrote a letter to The Nation about antisemtiism in Norway, the persecution of Jews and the deportation to German concentration camps. Later that year he said in an interview with Nordisk Tidende (Norwegian newspaper in US), that everything that happened in Norway, Poland, even to the Germans, is nothing compared with the extinction of 6 million Jews, of a whole people.South Africans 'fought in Gaza' (+ Al Jazeera YouTube ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/3/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... South Africans ‘Fought in Gaza’ (+ Al Jazeera YouTube clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlyV-tUr3sw) Another lawfare development to keep your eye on, this one in South Africa. Apparently the investigations that went into the Goldstone Report also turned up evidence of South African nationals fighting in Gaza on behalf of the IDF. It’s not clear from the article in what capacity they were fighting, that is, whether they were contractors, mercenaries or Jewish South Africans who enlisted in the IDF out of ...

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