"In Lebanon as in Gaza, it is not Israel's right to protect its civilian population from terrorist aggression that is at issue. It is the way Israel goes about exercising that right.
Despite bitter lessons from the past, Israel's political and military leaders remain addicted to the notion that, whatever they have a right to do, they have a right to overdo, to the point where they lose what international support they had when they began their retaliatory measures."
So writes Henry Siegman, a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, a visiting professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and former head of the American Jewish Congress, in a piece in Guardian Unlimited.
Read this sober and balanced analysis from someone who could hardly be accused of not being well-informed or anti-Israel here.
Meanwhile, read here this grim "picture" of the death and destruction in Lebanon as reported by Robert Fisk from Beirut.
Despite bitter lessons from the past, Israel's political and military leaders remain addicted to the notion that, whatever they have a right to do, they have a right to overdo, to the point where they lose what international support they had when they began their retaliatory measures."
So writes Henry Siegman, a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, a visiting professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and former head of the American Jewish Congress, in a piece in Guardian Unlimited.
Read this sober and balanced analysis from someone who could hardly be accused of not being well-informed or anti-Israel here.
Meanwhile, read here this grim "picture" of the death and destruction in Lebanon as reported by Robert Fisk from Beirut.
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