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...toward peace to a halt. Certainly Sharon, as was Arafat, is as controversial a figure as there is in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sharon’s supporters touted him as a war hero, a man who had throughout his military and political career passionately defended Israel??s expansion into disputed territory like the West Bank and Gaza. His critics maligned him as a war criminal, the “Butcher of Beirut” who bore responsibility for numerous atrocities against the Palestinian people and had dedicated his life to repressing their struggle...
Directed by Steven SpielbergUniversal Pictures4 Stars“Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values,” says Israel??s then Prime Minister Golda Meir (Lynn Cohen) in Steven Spielberg’s controversial new film, “Munich.” She utters these words immediately before authorizing the assassination of the Palestinians her Secret Service hold responsible for the Black September terrorist attack against Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Her pronouncement raises a philosophical question that the remainder of the film struggles to answer: to what...
...strong reactions from the overflow crowd, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz debated MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict last night.The debate at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, which touched on issues such as the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and Israel??s commitment to peace, was highly confrontational. Dershowitz accused Chomsky of living on a fictional “Planet Chomsky” and Chomsky claimed that Dershowitz had misrepresented his views on the Middle East.On the issue of territory, Dershowitz—a strong supporter of Israel?...
...also spoke at length about several prominent controversies, including the recent rerouting of Israel??s security barrier, the use of torture and other interrogation methods by Israeli authorities, and the detention of foreign nationals...
...persuaded to talk with no “stress methods” at all. And even if the remaining person is the correct suspect, he will “just tell you anything to get you to stop.” In 1999, the Supreme Court of Israel??arguably the most experienced democratic court in dealing with such “imminent danger” scenarios—outlawed any use of torture. Were the U.S. to make such a decision, it would reflect preexisting domestic laws, such as the Army Field Manual and bring the country...