Fri. 5 Nov. @ 14.03 - Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center quotes Hamas minister of interior admitting Hamas police were also fighters in Operation Cast Lead. During Israel's Operation Cast Lead, Israel targeted the Hamas police infrastructure, killing approximately 250 officers on 27 December 2008. Their status as combatants was disputed and Israel's actions were widely condemned. The UN investigation into Cast Lead headed by Richard Goldstone stated that: ...[the mission] believes that the assertion on the part of the Government of Israel that 'an overwhelming majority of the police forces were also members of the Hamas military wing or activists of Hamas or other terrorist organizations' appears to be an overstatement that has led to prejudicial presumptions against the nature of the police force that may not be justified... The report also 'explained' Hamas' position on the police force's mandate...Read more>> Editorial voices staunch criticism of the failure to address application of universal jurisdiction in British courts. 'Undue Process' describes the current predicament for Israeli officials visiting Britain as 'an embarrassment' and 'a preposterous politicisation of British justice for the partisan ends of pressure groups.' The article draws a distinction between cases such as Bosnia and Liberia 'where terrible crimes have been committed' but they 'do not have a legal system strong enough to try the perpetrators' and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...Read more>> Just Journalism Executive Director Michael Weiss writes in The Weekly Standard about the plight of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman facing a death sentence for adultery. Totalitarianism thrives on deliberate ambiguity and the installation of perpetual fear in the mind of its subjected citizenry. Even after emigrating to Great Britain, the great Hungarian-Russian historian Tibor Szamuely could never get to bed at night because he never knew when that knock at the door by Stalin's secret police might come. For those still living in closed societies, prison or execution is simply a question of when - and that's a question that totalitarians love to toy with. Consider the plight of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, who was sentenced to death in Iran for two separate crimes - murder and adultery. Like Nabokov's Cincinnatus C., she's never been told with any certitude the exact time of her demise, although a false rumor by a well-meaning human rights group made it seem as if it were yesterday...Read more>>
November 5, 2010 The Wire Hamas interior minister admits 'police' were fighters
Times blasts UK universal jurisdiction
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