Electronic Intifadas Rania Khalek spotlights Israel army ethicists, Asa Kasher and Moshe Halbertal, and their ethics of genocide: Convened by the liberal Zionist New Israel Fund and moderated by Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the liberal The Jewish Daily Forward, the event was advertised as a discussion about “‘moral armies’ and the challenges of defensive wars in today’s new Middle East.” Among the panelists were Israeli military “ethicists” Asa Kasher and Moshe Halbertal, as well as retired US Air Force Major-General Robert Latiff. Kasher and Halbertal co-authored the Israeli military code of ethics, which has guided the army’s conduct during Israel’s increasingly ferocious military assaults against the Palestinians it occupies as well as its neighbors over the last two decades... As the generally Israel-friendly crowd of mostly older New Yorkers sipped on Merlot and munched on pita chips from the comfort and safety of the JCC, they listened to the ethicists doing what they do best: twisting international law to sanctify Israel’s “right” to inflict limitless suffering on the 1.8 million Palestinians, the vast majority refugees, confined to the Gaza Strip solely because they are not Jews... When asked if he was alarmed by the calls for genocide emanating from Israeli lawmakers including Ayelet Shaked and Moshe Feiglin, Kasher said that Shaked was not in the Israeli government (her party, Jewish Home, is part of the ruling coalition) and dismissed Feiglin, who is deputy speaker in the Israeli parliament, as a “marginal” figure. ACT NOW 1. Write to the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide at [email protected] and un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/contactform.asp?address=1 and demand they conduct an enquiry and publish its findings and recommendations as to the possibility that Israel is committing the Crime of Genocide. 2. Send us a copy of your email, so we can publish it on the YOUR LETTERS TO THE UN section of the website. 3. Share this page and Invite all your friends.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:12:56 +0000
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