Anshei Pfeffer (Haaretz)
By Anshei Pfeffer (Haaretz)
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Opinion What Ties Orlando Massacre to Europe Terror Attacks — and Why It’s an All-American Tragedy
The time that elapsed between the initial reports on American networks of the carnage in the Pulse nightclub in Orland, Florida — when the incident was labelled a “mass-shooting” — and its definition as a terror attack symbolizes the West’s 21st-century difficulty in classifying murders carried out for ideology, religion and politics. Even when the details…
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Opinion How David Cameron Plans To Channel Bibi and Win Britain’s Election
If it emerges that a secretive campaign adviser to Britain’s Conservative Party spent a few weeks in Israel in February and March, no one will be very surprised. Whether or not such a person exists, one thing is very clear on the eve of next week’s U.K. parliamentary election: the successful reelection strategy used a…
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Fast Forward Goldstone Says Holocaust Shaped Views on War Crimes
Judge Richard Goldstone, the head of a United Nations commission that this week charged Israel with committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during its offensive there last winter, believes bringing war criminals to justice stems from the lessons of the Holocaust, according to a lecture he delivered in Israel in 2000. Goldstone spoke about…
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