Berman Conferring With Ros-Lehtinen After Charging ‘Inaccuracies’ in Goldstone Letter

After receiving a letter from Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza, to dispute an impending bipartisan House resolution denouncing his report, staffers for Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) are “conferring” with staffers for bill co-sponsor Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s (R-Fla.). “Chairman Berman is More…

J Street ‘Unable To Support’ the Congressional Goldstone Resolution

In a statement to be sent to supporters, J Street, the pro-Israel-pro-peace American Jewish lobby group, is urging members of Congress not to pass to significantly modify a resolution condemning U.N. investigator Richard Goldstone’s report into war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas during last year’s conflict. More…

House Resolution to Condemn U.N. Investigator’s Israeli/Hamas War Crimes Report

TWI has acquired the text of a congressional resolution that may be introduced in the next few days condemning the findings of U.N. investigator Richard Goldstone’s report into war crimes during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza this past winter.

The resolution — drafted by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Dan More…

Mike Huckabee Is Now to the Right of Hamas on Israel/Palestine

If I gave a speech saying that Israel had the right, invested in it by God, to permanently rule over millions of disenfranchised Palestinians in violation of their rights and their legitimate aspirations, I’d be outing myself as a dangerous fanatic who has no problem with a Jewish democracy becoming More…

Iran Beyond Its Borders

This post is going to get filled, really fast, with irresponsible speculation. So let’s have some fun.

This Washington Post story about the Washington debate over Iran is revealing for two reasons. First, the administration doesn’t seem to be phased by Manichean, inwardly focused arguments through analogy about why President More…

Benjamin Netanyahu Might Be Ready to Step Boldly Into 1993

So be cynical and presume that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Sunday speech on peace with the Palestinians isn’t going to commit Israel to anything major and will merely attempt to placate a ticked-off Obama administration. Eli Lake at The Washington Times says you’d be wrong and Netanyahu More…

Obama Tells the Muslim World That ‘Mutual Respect’ Really Does Have to Be Mutual

There’s so much to say about President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today. But for now, I want to focus on the aspects of it that conservatives insisted wouldn’t exist. Sean Hannity, for one, blasted the exercise yesterday as an “apology tour,” and while the facts of the More…

Obama Inherits Bush Legacy in Israeli Elections

Among the many sorry gifts George W. Bush passed on to President Barack Obama, the next prime minister of Israel is among the most dubious. This particular present will be gift-wrapped by Israeli voters on Tuesday when they vote for a successor to the indicted and discredited Ehum Olmert whose More…

Panetta Hearing: Bond’s Last Licks — Sort Of

The hearing is wrapping up. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) laments that some of the Republican senators have left “thinking they wouldn’t get a chance to ask questions.” He wants another bite of the apple on CIA Director-Designate Leon Panetta’s rendition history. “Were you fully advised of the extraordinary renditions that More…

The Pitfalls of International Law

Although human rights advocates breathed a sigh of relief when Israel and Hamas declared a cease fire last weekend, that tentative arrangement — already violated on Tuesday by Hamas rockets and Israel’s retaliatory air strikes — isn’t likely to silence the the broad claims of war crimes on both sides. More…