Mandelblit: Gaza blockade is legal
27/08/2010
Dan Izenberg
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Gaza Flotillas
The maritime blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip is motivated strictly by security considerations and is in total compliance with international law, Military Advocate- General Maj.-Gen. Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday told the panel investigating the May 31 flotilla incident.
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Enforce international law in Lebanon
08/08/2010
Avi Beker
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International Humanitarian Law
Two recent developments in Lebanon show the extent to which international law has become a double-edged sword in the regional quest for stability and in international efforts to fight terrorism.
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The Broken Link: What Peace Won't Fix
01/08/2010
James Kirchick
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Proportionality
Why is it that Israeli apartment construction in east Jerusalem, and not, say, the mass killing of Muslims in Sudan, stirs the hearts of the Arab world? One would have been hard-pressed to find much substantive coverage of that genocide in the Arab media, which is busy directing the attention of Arabs to the many small ways in which “crusader Zionists” and their American allies oppress Muslims.
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Goldstone committee head denies bias
27/07/2010
Benjamin Weinthal
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Gaza Fact-Finding Mission
The chairman of the UN committee responsible for following up on the findings of the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead acknowledged on Saturday that he had helped prepare an advisory opinion analyzing legal aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian issue in the 1990s, but said he could not recall whether he had done this work on behalf of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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J’lem unlikely to cooperate with UNHRC
25/07/2010
Tovah Lazaroff
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International Law
Israel is unlikely to cooperate with the UN Human Rights Council’s investigatory team to probe IDF activities aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla on May 31, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office said.
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Palestinians in the Arab World: Why the Silence?
20/07/2010
Khaled Abu Toameh
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Human Rights
When was the last time the United Nations Security Council met to condemn an Arab government for its mistreatment of Palestinians? How come groups and individuals on university campuses in the US and Canada that call themselves "pro-Palestinian" remain silent when Jordan revokes the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians? The plight of Palestinians living in Arab countries in general, and Lebanon in particular, is one that is often ignored by the mainstream media in West.
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Libyan ship: We're going to Gaza
11/07/2010
Associated Press
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Flotilla
The aim of the Libyan backed aid ship the Amalthea remains to sail directly to Gaza. Aid vessel organizers say they won't be deterred by Israeli demands.
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Abbas: Israel Must Accept 1967 Borders
02/07/2010
Khaled Abu Toameh
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Peace Process
The Palestinians won't open direct negotiations with Israel unless progress is first made on the issues of borders and security, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell on Thursday in Ramallah. Abbas said there would be no progress in the peace process unless Israel recognized the June 4, 1967, lines as the future borders of a Palestinian state.
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Lebanon to UN: Israel will suffer consequences if our ships are attacked
22/06/2010
Ha'aretz
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“Occupation”
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Int’l Law Expert Dr. Robbie Sabel: IDF action in international waters legal
31/05/2010
Robbie Sabel
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Gaza Flotillas
Dr. Sabel explained that a state, in a time of conflict, can impose an
embargo, and while it cannot carry out embargo activities in the territorial
waters of a third party, it can carry out embargo activities in
international waters.
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"We Are Not Done With Goldstone"
21/05/2010
Ilan Evyatar and David Horovitz
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International Law
Alan Dershowitz is balanced, poised, calculated and nuanced, but when it comes to Richard Goldstone, the Harvard Law professor and celebrated appellate lawyer loses his cool.
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Two state goal ‘too narrow’
17/05/2010
Herb Keinon
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Peace Process
The stated goal of the nascent diplomatic process should be a historic reconciliation between Jews and Arabs, and not just a two-state solution, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Sunday, on the eve of US Middle East envoy George Mitchell’s next visit to mediate indirect talks.
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The Middle East that Could Have Been - If Only Arab Leaders Hadn't Opted for War
14/05/2010
Efraim Karsh
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Sovereignty
On Nov. 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partition of Palestine into two independent states - one Jewish, the other Arab - linked in an economic union. For Jews all over the world, this was the fulfillment of a millenarian yearning for national rebirth in their ancestral homeland. For Arab political and intellectual elites, it was a shameful surrender of (a however minute) part of the perceived pan-Arab patrimony to a foreign invader. The response of the Arab Higher Committee, the effective "government" of the Palestinian Arabs, headed by the militant ex-mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin Husseini, was an all-out war.
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OECD members vote unanimously to invite Israel to join
11/05/2010
BBC
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How Israel Is Guided by International Law
Members of the group of rich nations, the OECD, have voted unanimously to invite Israel to join, despite Palestinian objections. Joining the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is thought likely to boost Israel's economic standing and help attract investment.
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Middle East Talks Begin
10/05/2010
Joshua Mitnick
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Peace Process
Palestinian officials announced the official start of indirect peace talks with Israel, following weekend authorization by the Palestinian Liberation Organization and ending a two-month boycott triggered by Jewish building plans in East Jerusalem.
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