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Goldstone report: Israel's failings

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By George Bisharat - Sep. 19 (Opinion) - Will Israel's decades-long impunity from international law finally come to an end? That is the question facing the international community in the aftermath of the just-released Goldstone report.

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Fear was no excuse to condone torture

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Charles C. Krulak, Joseph P. Hoar - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves.'' As a former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, we knew that was a recipe for disaster. But we never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a vice president of the United States, a man who has served our country for many years. In light of the irresponsible statements recently made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, however, we feel we must repudiate his dangerous ideas -- and his scare tactics.

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The Other End of the Abu Ghraib Camera

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By William Quinn - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - DESPITE demands by human rights advocates that photos documenting abuse of military detainees be made public, the Senate last month passed legislation to block their release. The legislation is now before the House. President Obama supports these efforts. This is all good news. Classifying the photos would help protect those detainees’ basic rights to dignity and privacy.

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You can Stop War

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

current.com - By Jon Raymond - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - We stopped the Vietnam war, purportedly with two pictures, Execution by Eddie Adams, and Nick Út's photo of a naked girl running with her clothes burned off by napalm. We were so outraged by these photos that we pressured our government to get out of Vietnam.

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Yo, America, The Jig is Up

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

stopwar.lafilmonline.com - By Jon Raymomd - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - The United States of America was founded as a racist, sexist, classicist, bigoted nation. From the start, our government only recognized wealthy white male landowners as having a voice in government. Yet their words in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution declared all “men” as equal.

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Obameter: Did Obama Break His Promise to Armenians?

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Katie Connolly - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - The bottom line is this: even though he says his views haven't changed and yes, his previous views did clearly articulate his acknowledgment of the genocide, his campaign promise was that as President he would acknowledge the Armenian genocide.

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Timidity Derails Obama Intel Choice

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - Foreign policy analyst Chris Nelson described the imbroglio as a reflection of the “deadly power game on what level of support for controversial Israeli government policies is a ‘requirement’ for U.S. public office.” Before the flip-flop on Freeman was announced, Nelson warned, “If Obama surrenders to the critics and orders Blair to rescind the Freeman appointment, it is difficult to see how he can properly exercise leverage, when needed, in his conduct of policy in the Middle East. That, literally, is how the experts see the stakes in the fight now under way” — the fight that is now over.

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Charles Freeman fails the loyalty test

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - In the U.S., you can advocate torture, illegal spying, and completely optional though murderous wars and be appointed to the highest positions. But you can't, apparently, criticize Israeli actions too much or question whether America's blind support for Israel should be re-examined.

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Israelis for peace speak out

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Amy Goodman - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - Israeli professor Neve Gordon is chairman of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel, the region most impacted by the Hamas rockets. Speaking over the phone from Beersheba, Gordon said: "We just had a rocket about an hour ago not far from our house. My two children have been sleeping in a bomb shelter for the past week. And yet, I think what Israel is doing is outrageous. ...

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How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Avi Shlaim - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - This brief review of Israel's record over the past four decades makes it difficult to resist the conclusion that it has become a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction and practises terrorism - the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. Israel fulfils all of these three criteria; the cap fits and it must wear it. Israel's real aim is not peaceful coexistence with its Palestinian neighbours but military domination. It keeps compounding the mistakes of the past with new and more disastrous ones. Politicians, like everyone else, are of course free to repeat the lies and mistakes of the past. But it is not mandatory to do so.

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Another round of bloodletting

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Jan. 06 (Opinion) - Act two of the Gaza slaughter has begun. Death from above now continues on the ground. Overwhelming firepower from tanks, artillery and aircraft are killing women and children indiscriminately. Reports speak of civilians cowering inside as battles rage, terrified residents in other areas fleeing in fear, the windows of the house being blown out, people living without electricity, surviving without heat and eating cold food.

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Factor human rights into Gaza crisis

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

al.com - By David Gespass - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - I am proud of my Jewish heritage. I know that we have been victims just because we are Jewish. But to me, when we say "Never again!" we cannot mean that never again will we accept Jewish suffering. It must mean never again will we permit a people to suffer persecution because of race, religion or ethnic identity. Today, it pains me to acknowledge, the state of Israel is betraying everything about my heritage in which I take pride. Even more painful, the country of my birth is its principal enabler.

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'The Worst Place'

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - Dec. 22 (Editorial) - The Congo war is killing tens of thousands of people per month and is widely believed to be the world's gravest humanitarian emergency. For that reason alone, we in the West should be doing everything possible to end it.

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