Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Palestinians Press for War Crimes Inquiry on Gaza

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/world/middleeast/11hague.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=gaza&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Subject: re: Palestinians Press for War Crimes Inquiry on Gaza
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
    In a single stroke, Mahmoud Abbas asks the ICC to acknowledge his jurisdiction over Gaza, seeks to demonstrate that he's not too close to the Israelis, proposes to embarrass Hamas by revealing their war-crimes and--maybe--asserts statehood for his own Palestinian Authority. Maybe he's more clever than we have credited; how do you say "byzantine" in Arabic?
Barry Levine

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