Jessica Montell
By Jessica Montell
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Opinion Op-Ed Doesn’t Close the Book on Cast Lead
The intensity of the debate raised by Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed indicates just how much his name still symbolizes an open wound for Israeli society. Eighteen months after the publication of his commission’s report on the 2008-2009 hostilities in Gaza, Goldstone is now voicing regrets. Goldstone contends that, had he had access to information…
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Opinion Demagoguery vs. Human Rights
Normally I don’t feel the need to comment on Hugo Chavez’s rhetorical gestures. I’ve got my hands full responding to the ideologues and provocateurs in my own neck of the woods. But when the Venezuelan president comments on this past winter’s Israeli military operation in Gaza, on the same day that B’Tselem releases a major…
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