The extent of Israel's brutality against Palestinian civilians in its 22-day pounding of the Gaza Strip is gradually surfacing. Israeli soldiers are testifying to lax rules of engagement tantamount to a license to kill. One soldier commented: "That's what is so nice, supposedly, about Gaza: You see a person on a road, walking along a path. He doesn't have to be with a weapon, you don't have to identify him with anything and you can just shoot him."
What is less appreciated is how Israel is also brutalizing international law, in ways that may long outlast the demolition of Gaza.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel has a legal obligation to facilitate the...
Brooklyn-based writer and reporter Jasper Nathaniel was going through the Turmus Ayya olive fields in the...
In early October, after 43 years behind bars for a murder he apparently did not commit,...
