Judge Fernando Andreu of Spain’s Audiencia Nacional court is investigating the assassination by Israel of Salah Shehadeh, a leader of Hamas, in 2002. The investigation has been described as “lacking the slightest degree of systematic rigor”, resting on an “opportunist interpretation” of the law and being based on a “conceptual error”.
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El Criador de Gorilas is one of Argentina’s leading political blogs. Its pseudonymous author mainly concerns himself with questions relating to voter behaviour here and the United States but occasionaly ventures further afield. I take the liberty of translating part of his his latest - titled “El Criador Makes Himself Even More Unpopular” - post below, with some minor editing.
This is a guest post by Petra Marquardt-Bigman, author of the Warped Mirror blog at the Jerusalem Post
“Israel’s international reputation slumped to its lowest point for two decades yesterday, amid condemnation in Britain and Europe of the Israeli army’s behaviour … There were calls for a United Nations-led inquiry into allegations that the Israeli army carried out a massacre and that its soldiers were guilty of war crimes.”
Gideon Levy is reporting the Gaza conflict from Israel’s Negev region. He is eager to emphasize that the threat posed by the Hamas rocket attacks is overblown (“This is no Second Lebanon War, to judge by a visit to southern Israel Thursday. Life carries on somehow, no cities have been abandoned and so far the fatalities are in single digits”) but that’s not surprising. What struck me is that he apparently didn’t grasp the meaning of the following conversation with two immigrants from the Caucasus who are now in Sderot.
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