Gaza War Still Stirs Divisions in Israel
A year after the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, divisions between factions within Israel are deepening One right-wing group has launched a public campaign targeting domestic human rights organizations that assisted UN officials investigating Israeli war crimes, accusing them of, wait for it treason.
A year after the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, divisions between factions within Israel are deepening. One right-wing group has launched a public campaign targeting domestic human rights organizations that assisted U.N. officials investigating Israeli war crimes, accusing them of, wait for it … treason. –JCL
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A year after Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, fallout from the war is deepening political divisions in the Jewish state. The three-week conflict claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to Arab accounts, and 13 Israelis.
A right-wing Israeli advocacy group has ignited a storm with a public campaign targeting an Israeli human rights organization that assisted United Nations officials investigating the Gaza War.
The U.N.’s subsequent Goldstone Report accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, prompting outrage in Israel. The popular view among Israelis is that the nation was acting in legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza.
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