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Israeli legal scholar icon discusses where NGOs and media get international law wrongnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Jan 05:45 AM The Second IDF I Like   Tweet   Israeli legal scholar icon discusses where NGOs and media get international law wrong noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Jan 05:45 AM The Second IDF International Conference on Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) took place in Tel Aviv in April, 2017. The keynote address delivered by Emeritus Professor Yoram Dinstein, former Tel Aviv University president who is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the laws of armed conflict. His speech is an excellent overview of the topic. It was published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Here are some excerpts where he describes how "human rights" NGOs and the media do not understand the functions and importance of the laws of armed conflict. Here he discusses the differences between the laws of war and human rights law. Another pernicious confusion is spawned by the dual existence in armed conflict of human rights law and LOAC. Naturally, there is some synergy and even a degree of overlap between the two branches of law. The prohibition of torture, which is reiterated in both bodies of law, is a leading example of such overlap. But human rights law and LOAC do collide head-on in certain critical areas. The archetypical case in point relates to recourse to force. Put in a nutshell, the pivotal question is whether lethal force can be used as a first resort or only as a last resort. In ordinary law enforcement (police) action in peacetime, lethal force can be employed against law-breakers only...Read More Elder Comix: The brave As-a-Jews noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Jan 03:30 PM * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More 01/15 Links: 'Imam of Peace' calls on Arabs, Muslims to embrace Israel; The Nation's antisemitic spin on Kenneth Roth; 82% of Israelis believe diaspora Jews should make aliyah noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 15 Jan 01:00 PM From Ian: 'Imam of Peace' calls on Arabs, Muslims to embrace Israel Born in Tunisia in 1972, Hassen Chalghoumi received his undergraduate degree from a university in Damascus before studying theology in Pakistan. The father of five children, he arrived in 1996 in France, where he became the imam of the Drancy mosque in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. He has served as president of the Conference of Imams in France for almost 20 years, during which time he developed close ties to the Jewish community. Chalghoumi's work has in some circles earned him the moniker "Imam of the Jews," in others as the "Imam of Peace." His mission: To bring people closer together in order to fight antisemitism and also Islamism, more specifically political Islam. We sat down with Chalghoumi during his recent visit to Israel. JNS: What brought you here? A: In 2004-2005, I often had encounters with the members of the Jewish community and also went to Holocaust memorials since I am the imam of Drancy, a city known for its relationship to the Shoah. I have friends who spoke to me about Israel but initially I said, we are French Muslims, you are French Jews, it's unnecessary to speak about Israel because we are neither Palestinians nor Israelis. I had this tendency to avoid speaking about politics or international affairs and instead focus on France. But whenever I attended events that were related to the...Read More The Biden Administration continues the willful blindness of its pre-Trump predecessors (Daled Amos) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Jan 10:45 AM By Daled Amos Numbers don't lie, but what diplomats sometimes do with numbers is another story. Stephen M. Flatow On January 4, Hamodia posted an interview with Thomas Nides, the US Ambassador to Israel, an interview initially conducted via Zoom during Chanukah. Nides makes a point of emphasizing US support for Israel and for its security while talking about US support for Palestinian Arabs as well. As Nides puts it, "I fundamentally believe that if we give hope and opportunity to the Palestinian people, that will hopefully over time benefit the State of Israel, limit the amount of terrorist attacks, and keep this place a strong democratic Jewish state." When last month's interview by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research is brought up, showing that 72% of Palestinian Arabs support the creation of new terrorist groups like Lion's Den, Nides does not skip a beat: I firmly believe, and you might disagree with me, but the vast, vast majority among the average Palestinians doesn't wake up in the morning wanting to kill someone who happens to be Jewish. They want to live just like you and I do. [We need to do everything we can] regarding...Read More Meanwhile,. Arab states send billions to US universities. Who believes they aren't trying to influence academia? noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Jan 08:18 AM While Ken Roth and The Nation are trying to stoke outrage that Roth was not hired for a fellowship at Harvard University, blaming rich Jewish donors for the decision without any actual evidence, foreign money pours into US universities with the obvious intention of influencing academia - and more. Here's a long forgotten incident. In 1989, then-governor Bill Clinton lobbied Saudis to donate to the University of Arkansas. He even met with the Saudi ambassador to the US in 1991. But the Saudis didn't give any money to the university - until Clinton became the Democratic nominee for President in 1992. And only weeks after he became president, the Saudis gave the university $20 million to establish the King Fahd Middle East Studies Center. Early efforts by oil-rich Arab kingdoms to donate to prestigious universities in the US were heavy handed, and most universities rejected them because of their demands that the money be used in specific, illegal ways. Over time, they moderated their demands - but the attempt to influence is still quite obvious. As Mitchell Bard writes in a detailed article on the topic: In 1975, Saudi Arabia was asked to finance a $5.5 million teacher-training program, but several schools, including Harvard, would not participate after the Saudis banned...Read More    ©2023 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company