{"id":10877,"date":"2009-09-18T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2009-09-18T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:17:43","slug":"economist-com-indeed-we-have-sinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10877","title":{"rendered":"Economist.com: Indeed, we have sinned."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Economist.com, Democracy in America, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2009\/09\/the_550pagereportreleased_yest.cfm\">16 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=10878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10878\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10878\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=10878\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/israeliattackaaa.jpg?fit=210%2C286\" data-orig-size=\"210,286\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;AFP&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Palestinian civilians run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip early on January 17, 2009. A woman and a child were killed early today in the Israeli strike on the UN-run school in northern Gaza where civilians were sheltering from the fighting, medics and witnesses said. Fierce clashes were underway around the school as Israeli tanks exchanged fire with Palestinian militants, they said. AFP PHOTO \\\/ MOHAMMED ABED&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1232176380&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;ImageForum&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;MIDEAST-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-UN&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MIDEAST-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-UN\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Palestinian civilians run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip early on January 17, 2009. A woman and a child were killed early today in the Israeli strike on the UN-run school in northern Gaza where civilians were sheltering from the fighting, medics and witnesses said. Fierce clashes were underway around the school as Israeli tanks exchanged fire with Palestinian militants, they said. AFP PHOTO \/ MOHAMMED ABED&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/israeliattackaaa.jpg?fit=210%2C286\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/israeliattackaaa.jpg?fit=210%2C286\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/israeliattackaaa.jpg?resize=210%2C286\" alt=\"MIDEAST-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-UN\" title=\"MIDEAST-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-UN\" width=\"210\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/israeliattackaaa.jpg?w=210 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/israeliattackaaa.jpg?resize=110%2C150 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>THE 550-page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ohchr.org\/english\/bodies\/hrcouncil\/specialsession\/9\/FactFindingMission.htm\">report<\/a> released yesterday by the UN investigating committee on war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas during Israel&#8217;s invasion of Gaza in December and January, chaired by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/middleeast-africa\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14445878&amp;source=features_box_main\">pretty damning<\/a>. The Israeli and Hamas responses to the report, meanwhile, are pretty feeble. The report recommends that the UN Security Council demand Israel conduct its own investigations into its alleged war crimes, and, if it fails to do so adequately, that allegations of war crimes be remanded to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. If the Security Council does consider requiring Israel to conduct such investigations, America will be faced with deciding whether it can continue to play its traditional role of defending Israel with its veto, this time against specific, credible, and numerous charges of war crimes. Israel can make that decision easier, however, by continuing its current strategy of refusing to accept any responsibility for Palestinian civilian deaths. Easier, that is, for America to vote against its ally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2009\/09\/the_550pagereportreleased_yest.cfm\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist.com, Democracy in America, 16 September 2009 THE 550-page\u00a0report released yesterday by the UN investigating committee on war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas during Israel&#8217;s invasion of Gaza in December and January, chaired by Richard Goldstone, a South African &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10884,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}