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April 2011

THE NEW YORK SUN EDITORIAL ON JUDGE GOLDSTONE

Justice Goldstone’s Regrets http://www.nysun.com/editorials/justice-goldstones-regrets/87285/ It will be a while before we see an op-ed piece as newsworthy — and as galling — as that in today’s Washington Post by Justice Richard Goldstone. He is the former member of the Constitutional Court of South Africa who chaired the United Nations mission that issued a report alleging […]

JUDGE GOLDSTONE RECONSIDERS HIS LIBEL OF ISRAEL….SO LITTLE, SO LATE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reconsidering-the-goldstone-report-on-israel-and-war-crimes/2011/04/01/AFg111JC_story.html Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes By Richard Goldstone, Friday, April , 8:42 PM We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known […]

THE SULTAN: MR. OBAMA’S LIBYAN ADVENTURE

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Mr. Obama’s Libyan Adventure It’s a lot easier to start a war than it is to finish it, as Mr. Obama is learning on his Libyan adventure. That is why wars are generally entered into after some consideration of the situation on the ground. There is only one excuse for a rush to war– […]