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Archive for January 24th, 2011

Livni: I Am Against International Law In Particular

Posted in Palestine Papers, Tzipi Livni, tagged , , , on January 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Wow. Tzipi Livni really lays it on the line in this one: “I was the Minister of Justice. I am a lawyer…But I am against law — international law in particular.  Law in general.” Israel has generally argued that its policies are legal under international law. The classic example, of course, is the argument that [...]

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The Need to Read the Palestine Papers With a Critical Eye

Posted in Israel, Jewish State, Palestine Papers, tagged , , , , , on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Palestine Papers are certainly explosive, and very important. But this article in The Guardian (UK) also points up the need for some critical examination of the coverage of the Papers. There is a pretty important distortion in the article that really needs to be addressed. Guardian writers Ian Black (who really should know better) [...]

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PA Panicked by Palestine Papers

Posted in Fatah, Palestine, Palestine Papers, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The PLO’s spokesman, Saeb Erekat, released a statement today in response to Al Jazeera’s publication of The Palestine Papers. The release is pasted below. The statement would seem, at least at this early stage, to reflect genuine panic on Erekat’s part. The standard denial of something having been “taken out of context,” which is often [...]

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