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Tag: Israel

  • Israel vs. Hamas: How Much Violence is Enough

    A law professor considers the notion of proportionality in Forbes: The claim is that it is not permissible for the Israelis to kill many individuals, including civilians, to stop sporadic deaths from rocket fire. Sorry. As with individual aggression, proportionality has no place in dealing with deadly force, where the right rule is that all […]

  • Israel’s Further Adventures in Social Media

    Israel continues and escalates its efforts to use social media to press its case in the global court of public opinion. Benjamin Netanyahu, the once and perhaps future Prime Minister, is pulling out all the stops to explain Israel’s position in the war with Hamas. In addition to an excellent op-ed in the Wednesday Wall […]

  • Hamas Deploys Children in PR Offensive

    A debate is raging over civilian deaths, some of them children, at a Palestinian school. GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli mortar shells exploded Tuesday near a U.N. school in Gaza that was sheltering hundreds of people displaced by Israel’s onslaught against Hamas militants, killing at least 30 Palestinians, tearing bodies apart and staining streets […]

  • Gaza Bromide: “Tweet, Tweet” Is Better Than “War, War”

    (Welcome, readers of TheDonovan.com, a.k.a. Castle Argghhh. If you’re a fan of “Jonah’s military guys,” you might be interested in my October post about that site, “In Praise of Milbloggers, and of the Iraqi Air Force”. And a warm welcome as well to Wired and Mudville Gazette readers.) In an earlier post (“Israel Turns to […]

  • Zbigniew Zblows Smoke at Joe Scarborough

    I got a little carried away commenting on another blog, so to justify the research time I’m repurposing the comment here. 🙂 At Politics After 50 (having been born in 1958 I think this is a great blog title), the author had this to say about the video clip embedded below: I know this is […]

  • Moral Clarity on Hamas and Gaza, from Krauthammer

    Time and again, after reading a Charles Krauthammer column, I find myself thinking, “why couldn’t I have written that?” It’s a combination of my admiration for the man’s craft and my nearly complete agreement, more often than not, with what he has to say. Today’s column is headlined “Moral Clarity in Gaza.” It’s hard to […]

  • Slain Hamas Leader Was Raising Next Generation of Terrorists

    My satisfaction at the news yesterday that Israel had taken out a top Hamas leader was tempered somewhat by the fact that his family died with him — today’s stories put the toll at four of his wives and 10 of his children. On the face of it, that sounds like a lot of “collateral […]

  • Israel Turns to Social Media in Fight against Hamas

    Nick O’Neill has a good post at Social Media Today describing Israel’s use of social media in the current conflict in Gaza. Among other things, the Israeli Consulate in New York is engaging with supporters and critics alike, on Twitter. It’s reminiscent of Scott Monty’s efforts on behalf of Ford. Update: Also see this, at […]

  • Precision Strike Kills a Top Hamas Goon in Gaza

    “A senior Hamas leader, Nizar Rayan, was killed today with his four wives and two of his children in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics said,” according to an account in The National, an Abu Dhabi-based, English-language paper. (Photo: AFP/Getty, via CNN) The deaths of the wives and children are unfortunate, but Rayan knew […]

  • Good to See: Arab Leaders Criticize Hamas

    Via Taranto (third item) comes the welcome word that some Arab leaders understand the cause of the Gaza conflict better than the Episcopal Presiding Bishop does: Nimr Hammad, an adviser to [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas, told a Lebanese paper, “The one responsible for the massacres is Hamas, and not the Zionist entity, which in […]