humanitarian intervention

Palestinian protesters chant as they surround a donkey cart loaded with tires during clashes with Israeli troops on the Israeli border with Gaza. December 22, 2017. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
Israel cannot evade responsibility for the catastrophe in Gaza
A top Israeli news correspondent argues that Israel must form an international coalition to take over Gaza and overthrow Hamas. This concept leaves out decades of Israel’s conduct, which has had very little to do with security and a whole lot to do with punishing Gaza’s residents. By Amir Rotem In his recent column in Yedioth Ahronoth, Channel 10’s…
By +972 Magazine December 27, 2017
Israeli tanks are positioned along the Syrian border in the occupied Golan Heights, January 29, 2015. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
First, do no harm: Israel and the Druze in Syria
Some Druze in Israel are campaigning for intervention to save their kin on the Syrian side of the border, but the Druze in Syria reject the idea out of hand. Instead, they are demanding that Israel stop supporting the people threatening to massacre them. By Rabah Halabi ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra are fanatical religious movements…
By +972 Magazine June 22, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama (Center for American Progress/CC)
A case for isolationism
America and its Western allies should either reinstate the military draft or put down their arms, because their way of going to war these days is too unjust, too inequitable to abide.    Whenever I read or hear somebody say that America, the West, the world must intervene militarily in Syria, I think, very cynically,…
By Larry Derfner September 17, 2013
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Bombed out buildings in Aleppo, Syria. December 26, 2012 (Freedom House/CC)
Arguments against intervention in Syria are losing steam
After Israel’s reported air strike on Damascus, intervention is no longer a theoretical concept. The question now is whether international military action should move from containment to humanitarian intervention? Last week, Larry Derfner made an argument against international intervention in Syria. This was before news broke of the recent attack (video above), and things are…
By Noam Sheizaf May 5, 2013
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