spectator.co.uk - 26 days ago
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When Israeli tanks and troops rolled into Gaza in December 2007, there was no doubt about the outcome of the conflict. Nor was there any doubt about who would be held responsible for using disproportionate force and deliberately harming civilians. Never mind that Israel was responding to years ...
jpost.com - 28 days ago
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jpost.com —
Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists held
a rally in Gaza on Friday to commemorate the...
group's slain founder. Holding plastic models of rockets and wearing masks and mock suicide bomber's vests, the members chanted "death to Israel" and ...
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Thousands of Islamic Jihad supporters gather in Gaza | ...
harpers.org - 29 days ago
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harpers.org —
Desmond Travers was one of the four members
of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the...
Gaza Conflict, which produced the controversial Goldstone Report. Travers is a retired Colonel of the Army of the Irish Defence Forces. His last appointment ...
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KEN SILVERSTEIN—Six Questions for Desmond Travers on the ...
newsmax.com - 27 days ago
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newsmax.com —
The United Nations and much of the world
media have blasted Israel for alleged war crimes during...
its incursion into the Gaza Strip in January, but one Israeli tank commander is mounting a spirited defense, using declassified video footage from Israel ...
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Israeli Colonel Refutes Damning U.N. Report
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Judge Richard Richard Goldstone
Israel Matzav —
... In London's Spectator, Douglas Davis examines Richard Goldstone's past and why Goldstone believes he has the right to sit in judgment of Israel. It's not pretty . Richard Goldstone will now be lionised from Pyongyang to Ouagadougou, and all points in between where the oppressed find succour. Streets will be named after him, university chairs will be endowed in his honour and state medals will be struck for this great class-struggler. But to senior legal colleagues in South Africa, he will always be Richard Richard Goldstone. Richard Richard? ‘Oh yes,’ says a former senior ...
Conceived in sin
Yourish.com —
... A number of reports on the Goldstone commission describe Judge Goldstone, as “respected,” but perhaps “ambitious” might be a better description. South African ex-pat Douglas Davis explains (h/t/ ...
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