The "Dahiya doctrine"
“What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on … “We will apply disproportionate force on it [the village] and cause great damage and...
Read MorePosted by heathlander | Oct 4, 2008 |
“What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on … “We will apply disproportionate force on it [the village] and cause great damage and...
Read MorePosted by heathlander | Sep 30, 2008 |
A coalition of 21 prominent aid agencies, including the likes of Oxfam International, Save the Children UK, CAFOD, CARE International UK and Christian Aid, published a report (.pdf) this week condemning the failure of the...
Read MorePosted by heathlander | May 23, 2008 |
The “only democracy in the Middle East” once again resorts to force in order to silence dissent: “[T]he American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein...
Read MorePosted by heathlander | Apr 21, 2008 |
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, just days after threatening Iran with “massive retaliation” should it attack Israel, has now gone one further: ‘Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing...
Read MorePosted by heathlander | Apr 19, 2008 |
“So we got hold of just some [10 year-old] Palestinian kid nearby, we knew that he knew who it had been. Let’s say we beat him a little, to put it mildly, until he told us. You know, the way it goes when your...
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