Posts Tagged: war crimes
The US Finally Begins to Stand Up to the ICC
JNS.org - Wars are contests of wills, and Americans have long had enemies who use guns and bombs in an attempt to force us to...
Dutch Court to Hear Case Against Israel’s Gantz Over Gaza Deaths in 2014
A Dutch court will consider on Tuesday a request to hear a civil suit seeking damages from former Israeli armed forces chief Benny Gantz, who is...
Netanyahu to Leahy: IDF Soldiers Are Not Murderers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected US Senator Patrick Leahy’s recent accusations against the Israeli army, the Hebrew news site nrg reported on Wednesday. “IDF soldiers and...
IDF Reservist Breaks Silence About ‘Breaking the Silence’ in New Viral Video Clip
A reservist IDF officer has launched a new kind of battle, this one on the Internet, Israeli news site nrg reported on Monday. Major (ret.) Amit Deri has spearheaded a video campaign against...
Yair Lapid: Report on Gaza War Proves United Nations is ‘Out of its Mind’
The chairman of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid criticized on Monday a forthcoming United Nations report on last summer's war between Israel and Hamas in...
IDF Commander: Hamas Transformed the Gazan Civilian Sector Into War Zone
Speaking last week at the International Ground Forces Ceremony in Latrun, IDF Col. Uri Gordin -- who commanded the Nahal Brigade during Operation Protective Edge...
UN Watchdog Questions Appointment of Clooney Fiancee, Anti-Israel Lawyer on Gaza Inquiry Panel (VIDEO)
A United Nations watchdog NGO slammed the international body's decision to allow a law professor avowedly hostile to Israel as well as actor George Clooney's...
American Islamic Leader Convicted of War Crimes in Bangladesh
"ŽA war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh convicted Ashrafuzzaman Khan and a second man on Sunday of11 charges related to the kidnapping and murder of 18 intellectuals at the end...
Opinion: Is Hillary Clueless or Cavalier? Neither Helps
Last week in this space I wrote about Secretary of State Clinton's cavalier call for the people of Aleppo to rise up against the Assad regime....
Israel Weighs Extraditing Citizen to Bosnia
Forty-two-year-old Alexander Cvetkovic, an Orthodox Christian Serb and now Israeli citizen, is accused of war crimes for killing Muslims in the fall of Srebrenica, in...
ICC Ruling in Favor of Israel May Force Palestinian Authority to Change Course
According to an attorney involved in the case, the International Criminal Court's decision to reject the Palestinian Authority's request that Israel be investigated for war...
The Goldstone Mea Culpa
One would surely have expected that when Richard Goldstone felt impelled to belatedly retract his previous appalling defamation of Israel, he might have selected a...
Netanyahu Demands Cancellation of Goldstone Report
At his April 3, 2011 cabinet meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the Washington Post printed remarks of Judge Richard Goldstone, saying "There are very few...
Where Do We Start and When Do We Stop?
I listened intently this week to the speech given by President Barack Obama explicitly intended to explain to the American public why the U.S. decided...
