Posts Tagged: civilian casualties Gaza
Investigative Journalist Distrusts AP Report on Gaza Casualties
JNS.org - Investigative journalist Richard Behar has issued a detailed rebuttal to the Feb. 13 Associated Press (AP) report on the number of Palestinians killed...
Clarifications Required for BBC Reports on Shati Incident
As we noted on our blog the other day, the Israeli Military Attorney General (MAG) has published the findings of some of the investigations conducted into incidents...
Top U.S. General: Israel ‘Went to Extraordinary Lengths’ to Limit Gaza Casualties (VIDEO)
JNS.org - Gen. Martin Dempsey, America's highest-ranking military officer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that Israel "went to...
Words Matter
As he set off for New York to address the 69th U.N. General Assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he would...
Saeb Erekat Describes His Strategy of Lying
On Monday, PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat added another to his long list of lies that he spouts to the media and this one was a doozy: Escalating the Palestinian leadership's rhetorical...
Applying International Law to the Israel-Hamas Conflict
JNS.org - Now that the latest Israel-Hamas conflict has come to a close—should the 12th attempted cease-fire hold—the battlefield moves from Gaza to the...
Did the U.S. Raise Hellfire by Delaying Missile Transfer to Israel?
JNS.org - The Obama administration was forced to go on the defensive last week regarding accusations published in The Wall Street Journal that White House...
UNHRC Declares Israel the Aggressor – BEFORE the Inquiry
Here is the statement from the UN Human Rights Council establishing a "commission of inquiry:" The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella (Gabon),...
Opinion: Congress Must Defund the Worst of the United Nations’ Institutions
Although far from central to the ongoing Hamas-Israel hostilities, the United Nations has nonetheless inflicted substantial damage to its own reputation and credibility. So outrageously...
A Response to Those Providing Hamas an Iron Dome of Moral Equivalency
Right on cue, former President Jimmy Carter and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson chime in to demand that Israel treat Hamas as a "legitimate...
Israeli U.N. Envoy Says International Community ‘Has Lost its Way’
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor on Wednesday said the international community "has lost its way" in its assessment of the...
UNRWA School Déjà Vu – Again, the Media Uncritically Reports Lies
On January 6, 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, the BBC (and every other news outlet) reported: At least 40 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli...
Hamas Versus Israel: A Failure of Imagination
For a number of diplomats and journalists, predictable story lines have emerged, as the most recent round of Israel-Hamas fighting continues into its fourth week. At...
An Open Letter to Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem
JNS.org - I am writing this not as a journalist, but as a regular person, an Israeli citizen, in response to the letter you...
