Legal aspects of "Operation Cast Lead" in Gaza

JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiroa of the University of Utah College of Law says that while self-defense (in the classic model) is the legal basis for Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces' re-articulation of proportionality and collateral damage in that context is a new development in international law that carries significant risks...

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Info over Gaza

The information war being fought over Gaza is one of the most commented-on aspects of the current crisis - Israeli military footage, Twitter updates, Facebook groups, media interviews, blogs, the use of megaphone software like GIYUS. It's not a new phenomenon, but the extent to which Israel's government has made bypassing, controlling and marginalising the media, and using YouTube and other platforms to disseminate core messages a central part of its information strategies is unprecedented.

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Want to End the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel

In this article, Naomi Klein argues that the best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.

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Leading British Jews call on Israel to halt "horror" of Gaza

A group of Britain's most prominent Jews has called on Israel to cease its military operations in Gaza immediately, warning that its actions, far from improving the country's security, will "strengthen extremism, destabilise the region, and exacerbate tensions inside Israel".

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Security Council Resolution 9567

For the full text of the Security Council resolution 9567 calling for an immediate ceasefire of the conflict on Thursday 8th January 2009, click here.

UN rights head calls for investigation of Gaza violations

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called for an independent investigation of possible war crimes and human rights violations in the ongoing conflict between Israel and combatants in the Gaza strip.
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Holocaust denied: the lying silence of those who know

Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the 'why' of Israel's bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza - an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel's right to exist.

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