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16 Jul 2011, 9:23 pm by Lovechilde
By Tom Engelhardt, originally published at TomDispatch, July 12, 2011. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 1:31 pm
Iran is a country that has shown itself to be extremely hostile to America and our allies by supporting such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 3:43 am by Josh Sturtevant
It neither represents a wholesale overhaul—nor a wholesale retention—of previous policies and strategies.Threat—This Strategy recognizes there are numerous nations and groups that support terrorism to oppose U.S. interests, including Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and HAMAS, and we will use the full range of our foreign policy tools to protect the United States against these threats.However, the principal focus of this counterterrorism strategy is the network that poses the most… [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 3:02 am
She expressed concern about the direction of the modern human rights movement – concerned that too many had forgotten Sakharov and forgotten Russia.She asked pointedly on her 2009 return to Oslo, where she had received Sakharov's Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 (left) (credit), about the reason for the silence of the world human rights community when it came to the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier abducted in 2006 by Hamas fighters and held incommunicado since then. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 11:30 am
They assess various factors, including potential liability, which can come in many different forms.Such as this:"[C]ompanies that have insured the ships that have been assembled to sail to Gaza to break the blockade of the Hamas-run strip [may be] leaving themselves open to prosecution for aiding terrorists"This is in response to the terrorist-enablers behind the various Gaza-bound flotillas, but represents an apparently novel way to make a point: go for the insurer as the first… [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 6:24 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
” It is difficult to argue that people like Alice Walker are members of Hamas. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 7:32 am by Edith Garwood
 Any violation of international law by Israel or Hamas does not justify Hamas’s treatment of Gilad Shalit or Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners that violates their rights. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 4:29 am by Benjamin Wittes
Nonetheless, there is a theoretically important question here–particularly if one were at war with a group like the IRA, which had a separate civilian wing, or even Hamas, which has all sorts of affiliated organizations engaged in non-terrorist activities. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:15 am by Geoffrey Mock
  After Hamas took control in Gaza in June 2007, the existing Israeli policy of closure was tightened to a blockade restricting the entry of food, fuel, and other basic goods. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 10:34 am by Ted Folkman
The facts of the case involve two spheres I would have thought were impossible to link: Hamas terrorism and some of the great Persian art collections in the [...] [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 9:04 pm by Glenn Reynolds
“The government’s violent crackdown against a three-month-old popular uprising continued, with helicopter gunships killing 10 people in a neighboring province and residents of Hama bracing for a military assault that would be the first on the city since the government bombed it in 1982, killing at least 10,000 people. [read post]
30 May 2011, 6:38 pm by David Bernstein
The current Egyptian government has apparently decided that its strategic interest in containing Hamas is secondary to the public opinion brownie points it will receive for easing the Palestinians’ plight–not to mention that the policy wasn’t very effective at containing Hamas.It would be nice to think that our friendly neighborhood human rights activists will now admit they were wrong, that Egyptian policy re Gaza wasn’t somewhat being secretly controlled by Israel,… [read post]
27 May 2011, 9:52 am by Tom Parker
  Just last month Israel is believed to have been behind a missile strike in Sudan that killed a senior Hamas procurement official. [read post]
27 May 2011, 7:00 am by ADR Times
” Other experts suggest that it is Turkey’s pro-Islamic policies that prevent Israel from agreeing to Turkey’s mediation in the matter since Hamas is an Islamic organization. [read post]
21 May 2011, 6:10 am by Kevin Jon Heller
In February 1982, the father of the Bashar al Assad, Hafez al Assad, ordered the killing of what many believe was 20,000 (and some put as high as 40,000) men in the town of Hama without any international condemnation or intervention. [read post]
18 May 2011, 6:50 am
[JURIST] A Palestinian human rights group released a report this week criticizing Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas [CFR backgrounders] security forces for violations of civil rights in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. [read post]