The Real Goal of Israel’s War on Lebanon
Israel's supposedly "defensive" assault on Hizbullah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country's...
View ArticleNearly all the war crimes were Israel’s
This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting -- mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks...
View ArticleIsraeli war tactics criticised
A human rights organisation has accused the Israeli military of committing a war crime by placing military hardware, including artillery positions, inside Arab towns and villages during the war with...
View ArticleEvidence of Israeli “cowardly blending” comes to light
It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of Israel and Hizbullah...
View ArticleOlmert slips the noose
The families of some of the 119 soldiers killed during Israel's attack on Lebanon 18 months ago, backed by disgruntled reserve army officers and the Likud Party, stepped up their calls for the head of...
View ArticleSapping Assad’s strength: Israel stirs the pot in Syria
In recent weeks, Israel has moved from relative inaction to a deepening involvement in Syrian affairs: it launched two air strikes last month, and at the same time fomented claims that Damascus had...
View ArticleIsrael to consider war crimes case
For the first time Israel's Supreme Court is set to consider evidence that senior Israeli political and military officials committed war crimes in relation to major military operations in Gaza and...
View ArticleDaggers drawn, but Israel and Hizballah likely prefer restraint
Hizballah’s attack that killed two soldiers on Wednesday was the very minimum retaliation Israel could realistically expect following an air strike earlier this month on a Hizballah convoy in southern...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch: Still missing the point
In an article article criticising Human Rights Watch for singling out Hizbullah rather than Israel for harsher condemnation of its military actions during the Lebanon war, I made sure to quote the...
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