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This past Tuesday, the United Nations released a lengthy, critical report on last winter’s three-week Gaza War. Unfortunately, the report contains evidence supporting the claim that both the Palestinian and Israeli delegations involved in the conflict committed war crimes and, according to The New York Times, “possibly crimes against humanity...
...Palestinian side, the report holds that rockets were unjustly fired from Gaza into several civilian areas in Southern Israel and, on the Israeli side, that Palestinian civilian communities within Gaza were cruelly mistreated, terrorized, and, in some cases, executed. As is typical of these reports, Israel received the harshest tone of condemnation and was also reprimanded for its use of weapons such as white phosphorus and its failure to preserve intact the local Gaza communities, while the Palestinians were criticized largely for their internecine conflicts...
Both sides have rejected the report, both sides have claimed that they acted purely out of self-defense, and both sides are, presumably, still seething. Thus the report and U.N. actions following its release have served merely to amplify rather than mitigate the eternal Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
...sure, we would prefer to see both sides cooperate with the U.N. investigation rather than dispute the findings of the report. The constant—and often violent—struggle between Israel and the Palestinian territories is one of the major sources of stress for the entire world, not merely the U.S. But since both sides will likely continue to insist upon their own innocence, we may as well hope, in the admirable spirit of U.N. naivete, for a much larger step toward peace...
...citizens to engage in democracy,” Pollak said. “Many Jewish-Americans voted for Obama, and now they suspect they were victims of a bait and switch.” Dershowitz, a vocal defender of Israel and a long-time supporter of a sovereign Palestinian state, responded that he would continue to support the president on policy stances he agreed with, and would otherwise prefer to work constructively within the Democratic Party. But Dershowitz has also spoken out vigorously against Democratic officials in the past, notably attacking former President Jimmy Carter’s portrayal...