[Marxism] Defending Israeli War Crimes Against Gaza

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Stephen Zunes | May 28, 2009
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> *In response to a series of reports by human rights organizations and
> international legal scholars documenting serious large-scale violations of
> international humanitarian law by Israeli armed forces in its recent war on
> the Gaza Strip, 10 U.S. state attorneys general sent a 
> letter<http://www.cpjnews.com/State%20Attorney%20General%20Letter%20March%202009.pdf>to
>  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defending the Israeli action. It is
> virtually unprecedented for state attorneys general — whose mandates focus
> on enforcement of state law — to weigh in on questions regarding the laws of
> war, particularly in a conflict on the far side of the world. More
> significantly, their statement runs directly counter to a broad consensus of
> international legal opinion that recognizes that Israel, as well as Hamas,
> engaged in war crimes.*
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> The wording of the letter closely parallels arguments by Bush
> administration officials in support for Israel's devastating offensive
> during their final days in office. Having been signed nearly 11 weeks after
> the end of the fighting and made public only late last month, it may have
> been part of an effort to undermine tentative efforts by the Obama
> administration to take a more balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian
> conflict.
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> A statement by state attorneys general putting forth a legal rationale for
> the large-scale killings of civilians is particularly distressing as
> concerns about civilian casualties from U.S. air and missile strikes in
> Afghanistan and Pakistan has grown.
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> full article --    http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6150
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> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- Voltaire
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