Today was the thirty sixth day of Operation Protective Edge. Head of new #UN Israel-bashing Gaza "inquiry" concocts Syria defense against "powerful" West. http://t.co/9klUXggDYN pic.twitter.com/sFLusuWa2d — Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) August 12, 2014 The Tower Today recalled remarks made by William Schabas pegged by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...
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An op-ed published yesterday in the Saudi owned, London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat argued that the Middle East conflict once known as the “Arab-Israel” conflict has shifted so much that it needs to be recast as one between Israel along with moderate Arab regimes, on the one hand, and extremist regimes, terror...
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William Schabas, who was appointed Monday by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head an investigation into Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge, argued in a blog post last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would not constitute a war crime. Schabas argued...
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In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly defended Israel’s war against Hamas and identified anti-Semitism as a motivating factor behind many of the demonstrations against Israel. Clinton’s initial response to the question as to whether or not Israel was justified in...
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After a series of victories in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an al-Qaeda offshoot, the United States on Friday launched a limited military strike against the Islamist group. ISIS’ victories threaten thousands of Iraqi minorities, prompting President Barack Obama to take action to protect the...
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More than 130 civilians were killed over the weekend by Syrian regime forces across the country, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group: The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights watchdog said Sunday that 130 people had been killed in Damascus’ suburbs, Aleppo, Hama, Deir ez-Zor,...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term yesterday, and used his inauguration speech to blast Arab and Western nations for supporting opposition elements in the war-torn country: There was no longer a place in the country, he said, “for those who are awaiting the end...
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Clashes along the Syria-Lebanon border on Monday killed more than a dozen people, less than a week after Washington leveled sanctions against a Beirut-based network of companies believed to be supplying resources to the terror group: Seven fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in fighting with Sunni Islamist insurgents in...
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Today, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) provided an analysis describing “how characteristics of the recent escalation is a clear proof that Iran and the terrorist organizations took advantage of periods of calm” to build arsenals capable of reaching most of Israel. JCPA senior analyst and retired IDF Lt. Col....
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The State Department’s top war crimes official claimed on Thursday that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is guilty of “crimes against humanity.” Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast quotes Steven Rapp, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and director of the Office of Global Criminal Justice. “This is...
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