The Goldstone Report Reconsidered

Author : Merkaz ha-yerushalmi leinyene zibbur umedina,NGO Monitor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gaza War, 2008-2009
ISBN : 9659179308

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The Goldstone Report Reconsidered by Merkaz ha-yerushalmi leinyene zibbur umedina,NGO Monitor Pdf

"Israel has been the subject of numerous controversial U.N. inquiries related to armed conflict and responses to terror attacks. But, the scope and impact of the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone Report, were particularly extreme. Produced under the politicized U.N. Human Rights Council, the fact-finding reflected in the Goldstone Report has been shown to be largely inaccurate. Similarly, international legal claims were distorted in a manner that maximized allegations of Israeli violations, while minimizing Hamas war crimes during the December 2008 - January 2009 Gaza War. Applying a number of academic approaches, the contributors to this book systematically address the flaws of the report and examine its far-reaching consequences. As demonstrated, the Goldstone Report sets a highly flawed example for other investigations of armed conflicts and international justice. Its methodological deficiencies, double standards, misleading interpretations of law, and unsupported conclusions are antithetical to the universal principles of human rights, including the right to self-defense."--Publisher.

Author : Gerald Steinberg,Anne Herzberg,Jordan Berman
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004218123

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Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding by Gerald Steinberg,Anne Herzberg,Jordan Berman Pdf

This work outlines available resources and proposed standards for international NGO fact-finding missions: Chapter One presents an introduction to the issue of NGO fact-finding. Chapter Two discusses the problems caused by the lack of any generally-accepted guidelines for NGO fact-finding, in contrast with contexts where NGOs have achieved consensus. Chapter Three surveys proposed guidelines for human rights and humanitarian NGOs. In addition, this section examines United Nations fact-finding standards, as well as examples of internal fact-finding standards for major NGOs. Chapter Four analyzes the fact-finding standards used in five specific cases: the International Crisis Group (Kosovo, 1999), the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (Georgia, 2008), United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Mapping Exercise on the Democratic Republic of Congo (1993-2003), Conflict Analysis Resource Center/University London study on Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (Colombia, 1988-2004), and Human Rights Watch (Lebanon, 2006). The final chapter offers conclusions and recommendations.

Author : Catherine Harwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004411241

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The Roles and Functions of Atrocity-Related United Nations Commissions of Inquiry in the International Legal Order by Catherine Harwood Pdf

In The Roles and Functions of Atrocity-Related United Nations Commissions of Inquiry in the International Legal Order, Catherine Harwood explores how United Nations inquiries navigate considerations of principle and pragmatism to discern their identity in the international legal order.

Author : Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803296718

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Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel by Robert S. Wistrich Pdf

"An exploration of the many aspects of the current surge in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric and violence around the world"--

Author : Nicola Perugini,Neve Gordon
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Culture and
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199365005

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The Human Right to Dominate by Nicola Perugini,Neve Gordon Pdf

"What if human rights were used to oppress or even harm the very populations they were intended to protect? In The HUman Right to Dominate, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon challenge readers to reconsider everything that they think they know about human rights, arguing against the popular assumption that increased human rights lead to a greater degree of freedom. The book explores the subjective and politicized nature of human rights in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict, demonstrating instances in which human rights can be used as a tool for oppression and illustrating the ways that human rights can be interpreted to justify colonialism, warfare, and even lethal violence against civilians." --Back cover.

Author : Phyllis Bennis
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623710255

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Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Phyllis Bennis Pdf

If you have ever wondered “Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?”, “Who are the Palestinians?”, “What are the occupied territories?” or “What does Israel want?”, then this is the book for you. With straightforward language, Phyllis Bennis, longtime analyst of the region, answers basic questions about Israel and Israelis, Palestine and Palestinians, the US and the Middle East, Zionism and anti-Semitism; about complex issues ranging from the Oslo peace process to the election of Hamas to the Goldstone Report and the Palestinians’ UN initiatives. Together her answers provide a comprehensive understanding of the longstanding Palestinian–Israeli conflict. This new edition includes sections on the continuing settlement crisis, the UN statehood bid and UNESCO, Palestine in the Arab Spring, BDS and the Palestinian nonviolent movements, the Israeli elections, and what’s ahead. Sections include: The Crisis; The Other Players: The Role of the US, the UN, the Arab States, and Europe; Recent History: Rising Violence; Looking Backward (1900-1991); The Future.

Author : Peter Berkowitz
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817914363

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Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War by Peter Berkowitz Pdf

The author argues that Israel stands on the frontlines of a new struggle over the international laws of war and exposes abuses of law that have been promulgated by international human rights lawyers, UN bodies, and intellectuals to illegitimately circumscribe the right of liberal democracies to defend themselves against transnational terrorists. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Gaza flotilla controversy, which erupted at the end of May 2010, are examples of those abuses. This book criticizes the flawed assumptions and defective claims arising from both the Goldstone Report and the Gaza flotilla controversy, showing how the legal principles and conclusions advanced by many of Israel's critics threaten not only Israel's national security interests but the United States' as well.

Author : Charles D. Freilich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190602956

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Israeli National Security by Charles D. Freilich Pdf

National security has been at the forefront of the Israeli experience for seven decades, with threats ranging from terrorism, to vast rocket and missile arsenals, and even existential nuclear dangers. Yet, despite its overwhelming preoccupation with foreign and defense affairs, Israel does not have a formal national security strategy. In Israeli National Security, Chuck Freilich presents an authoritative analysis of the military, diplomatic, demographic, and societal challenges Israel faces today, to propose a comprehensive and long-term Israeli national security strategy. The heart of the new strategy places greater emphasis on restraint, defense, and diplomacy as means of addressing the challenges Israel faces, along with the military capacity to deter and, if necessary, defeat Israel's adversaries, while also maintaining the resolve of its society. By bringing Israel's most critical debates about the Palestinians, demography, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, US relations and nuclear strategy into sharp focus, the strategy Freilich proposes addresses the primary challenges Israel must address in order to chart its national course. The most comprehensive study of Israel's national security to date, this book presents the first public proposal for a comprehensive Israeli national security strategy and prescribes an actionable course forward.

Author : Gregory S. Mahler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442265370

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Politics and Government in Israel by Gregory S. Mahler Pdf

This balanced and comprehensive text explores Israeli government and politics, tracing the history of the state, and the social, religious, economic, and military environments of Israeli politics. Gregory Mahler’s concise book provides an invaluable start for readers needing an introduction to Israel today.

Author : Malcolm N. Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108477741

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International Law by Malcolm N. Shaw Pdf

An authoritative and engaging work, combining straightforward exposition with extensive footnotes for further research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : OSU:32437121967836

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Journal of Transnational Law & Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mitchell G. Bard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137474582

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Death to the Infidels by Mitchell G. Bard Pdf

For more than a century, much of the attention given to the Middle East has focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The rise of a Palestinian offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, transformed the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. According to Bard, the dispute, in the view of Hamas, is not over a division of Palestine, but rather about Jews ruling over Muslims and the presence of Jews on Islamic land. However, this Islamic-Jewish conflict is not simply confined to the Middle East. Muslim terrorist attacks have been directed at Jews all around the world, from Europe to Asia to Latin America. Radical Muslims in European countries are becoming more brazen, particularly in France, where the Muslims constitute nearly ten percent of the population. In just the last year, there have been several Muslim attacks on Jews throughout France. Death to the Infidels documents the growth of radical Islam in the Middle East and how, from the author's interpretation, it has transformed what had primarily been a political conflict into a one-sided religious war limiting the prospect for peace, particularly in Israel.

Author : Emanuel Adler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415624152

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Israel in the World by Emanuel Adler Pdf

Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy and empathy from the world community whilst also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel's troubled attempts to balance its desire to be different from a world that it needs and of which it also wants to be a legitimate member.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000028928

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The United Nations and Changing World Politics by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

This completely revised and updated eighth edition serves as the definitive text for courses in which the United Nations is either the focus or a central component. Built around three critical themes in international relations (peace and security, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and sustainable human development) the eighth edition of The United Nations and Changing World Politics guides students through the seven turbulent decades of UN politics. This new edition is fully revised to incorporate recent developments on the international stage, including new peace operations in Mali and the Central African Republic; ongoing UN efforts to manage the crises in Libya, Syria, and Iraq; the Iran Nuclear Deal; and the new Sustainable Development Goals. The authors discuss how international law frames the controversies at the UN and guides how the UN responds to violence and insecurity, gross violations of human rights, poverty, underdevelopment, and environmental degradation. Students of all levels will learn that the UN is a complex organization, comprised of three interactive entities that cooperate and also compete with each other to define and advance the UN's principles and purposes.

Author : Alan Dershowitz
Publisher : Crown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307719287

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Taking the Stand by Alan Dershowitz Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in. “Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and probing and provocative insights into contemporary legal controversies.”—The Boston Globe Alan Dershowitz, the preeminent defense lawyer in America today, has been called the “winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history.” A professor at Harvard Law School since the age of twenty-five, he has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and countless others. In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz describes his evolution as a lawyer—from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. In his #1 New York Times bestselling book Chutzpah, Alan described his Jewish life. In Taking the Stand, he looks at the people and events that have helped to shape his ideas about the law. He describes his formative years as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. In the course of his career, he confronts the challenges of First Amendment law, the ongoing tension between individual freedom and national security, the questionable science often employed to prosecute accused murderers, the evolution of civil rights—and why the abortion rights debate in society hasn’t moved forward since Roe v. Wade. Filled with unforgettable cases and inside legal “baseball,” Taking the Stand is a deeply personal account of one of the legendary legal minds of our time.