R2P R.I.P.
A couple weeks back I wrote a piece for the Foreign Policy journal issuing an eulogy for the Obama style application of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), that is a multilateral application. After what was arguably one of the most successful humanitarian interventions, in Libya, western efforts to increase pressure on Syria were shot down … Read more
Guest Post: No Partner for Peace…Again?!
Lately, two opinion articles in Haaretz have focused on Mahmoud Abbas‘ role in the so-called “peace process,” both depicting him as a notorious naysayer but with different additives. On the one hand, we have Israel Harel, blatantly espousing his negation of international law as usual (one must only remember the cheeky article he wrote in … Read more
The Mavi Marmara (Palmer) Report from the United Nations Critique
Anyone who has been seeing the news the past 20hrs or so sees an interesting headline on the major media outlets. It reads something like this “UN report says Israeli blockade is legal.” So far I have found minor variation from the major media outlets and I would like to commend the New York Times … Read more
Dear Mahmoud Abbas, Here is a Better Plan for September
Mahmoud Abbas in his infinite wisdom is still due to ask the United Nations and its member states to recognize Palestine as its 194th country. As has been said before, this is not the platform at this present time to discuss exactly what legally should happen. Instead I wish to dwell on something Mahmoud Abbas … Read more
More Evidence that Libya is Screwed, Con’t
Daniel Larison is making a lot of sense these days. Though it is unfortunately just too obvious to many that Libya is simply falling apart thanks to western (particularly American and, I’d say, French blundering), the real problems may still be in the future. The lack of existing national level institutions, the divisions within … Read more
Why Exactly Would the US Recognize the TNC?
At the beginning of June, Joshua Keating discussed why the United States would be unlikely to recognize the Transitional National Council (TNC) in the near future, arguing that recognition of the TNC would go against a ‘long-standing U.S. policy.’ Today, over one month later, not much has changed in Libya. Though the rebels have made … Read more
Reflections on the Road to a One State in Palestine
There are many battles about the issue of One State vs. Two States, books, articles, etc. I have written many times before that I believe in the idea of one state in historic Palestine and wish to elaborate on some of the debates about this. I have been reading extended debates Chomsky has had with … Read more
Reflections on the New Flotilla II Plan
It has been announced by groups consisting of 700 Palestinian activists that due to problems with the water Flotilla II attempt they have a new idea. They plan to fly into Ben-Gurion airport en masse and declare they are going to Palestine. Whether they say this or they are planning on visiting the Occupied Territories … Read more
Its US vs Them and We Chose Them
So the upcoming Flotilla 2 has been in the news a lot recently as it prepares to embark on its mission to break Israel’s siege of Gaza and to deliver aid and letters of support to the beleaguered strip. There has been news that the Irish contribution will not be able to sail after the ship … Read more
Reflections on the Flotilla II
The current Flotilla II and its repercussions have been addressed across the world in many media outlets (some even in the US). The other Chris posted an article stating his point of view on what will happen so I felt I should include mine. The current flotilla was meant to leave on the anniversary of the first … Read more
Chris Keeler
Chris Whitman
