The ‘Spirit of the IDF’

30Sep09

Good to see the Israeli military is taking the recommendations of the Goldstone report on board:
‘The Israel Defense Forces should adopt a “Code of Ethics for the War on Terror,” because its existing ethical code is insufficient, according to Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, the head of Military Intelligence…
In 2003, Yadlin and [Prof. Asa] Kasha published [...]

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Tags: Amos Yadlin, Asa Kasher, Cast Lead, Gaza, IDF

Docs to watch

25Sep09

First up, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein:

There’s a good review in the Daily Star, which begins:
‘A dissenting voice is a peculiar thing. For those with a stake in a political status quo, the more contentious the issue, the more the dissident must be silenced. How this is done depends [...]

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Tags: American Radical, capitalism, documentaries, Michael Moore, Norman Finkelstein, US

Goldstone’s report on the Gaza massacre

25Sep09

Reading through the Goldstone report [.pdf], one theme becomes immediately apparent: the deliberateness of the destruction in Gaza. The authors keep returning to this point throughout the text, in a direct rebuke to those liberal apologists for Israel who insist, contrary to all the evidence, that whatever crimes the IDF committed in Gaza were accidental [...]

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Tags: Cast Lead, Dahiya doctrine, Gaza, Goldstone report, hasbara, Lebanon, Obama, Richard Goldstone, UN, war crimes