August 5, 2006

"Israel's responses to the threats to its existence have been remarkably restrained rather than disproportionately violent"

In "A War Crime at Qana?" at the subscription-only Wall Street Journal site, Orde Kittrie, a professor of international law at Arizona State University, surveys the evidence and concludes:

Compared with how China, Russia, and the EU have dealt with non-existential threats -- and despite the law-flouting behavior of Hezbollah, Iran and Syria -- Israel's responses to the threats to its existence have been remarkably restrained rather than disproportionately violent.

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