Zuma court bid continues today
Picture: (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)- ANC president Jacob Zuma sings the Zulu anthem Mshini wami, which means “Bring me my machine gun”… Read More »Zuma court bid continues today
Picture: (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)- ANC president Jacob Zuma sings the Zulu anthem Mshini wami, which means “Bring me my machine gun”… Read More »Zuma court bid continues today
By Stephen Zunes
(source: Foreign Policy In Focus)
In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict. The report was authored by the well-respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone and three other noted authorities on international humanitarian law, who had been widely praised for taking leadership in previous investigations of war crimes in Rwanda, Darfur, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere.
Since this report documented apparent war crimes by a key U.S. ally, however, Congress has taken the unprecedented action of passing a resolution condemning it. Perhaps most ominously, the resolution also endorses Israel’s right to attack Syria and Iran on the grounds that they are "state sponsors of terrorism."
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By Peter Symonds (source: World Socialist Web Site) A lengthy article, “Will Israel Attack Iran,” published in this week’s New… Read More »Israel prepares for war against Iran