Sep 25 2009
My letter to NYTimes editor
Israel and the Gaza War
Published: September 24, 2009
To the Editor:
Re “The Gaza Report’s Wasted Opportunity,†by David Landau (Op-Ed, Sept. 20):
The only missed opportunity regarding the report by Richard Goldstone was Israel’s illogical refusal to meet with the United Nations commission headed by a respected South African jurist who also happens to be Jewish and a Zionist.
Irrespective of the intention and the Israeli motive, the report concludes that Israel committed “war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity.â€
International humanitarian law is the only law binding the world community to some type of law about war. Palestinians will welcome any change to that law so long as it takes into consideration protection of a population that has lived under more than 40 years of a foreign military occupation.
Daoud Kuttab
Ramallah, West Bank, Sept. 20, 2009
The writer is a Palestinian journalist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/opinion/l25gaza.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kuttab&st=cse
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