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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2009 0 Comments

Israel has ended its Gaza operation in the hope that Hamas has learned to change its ways. No surprise, Hamas already is attempting to rearm with even longer-range missiles via a large shipment from Iran:US and Egyptian warships were scouring the Gulf of Aden and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2009 0 Comments

Paul Krugman is the NY Times columnist who won the Nobel prize for economics work he did over a decade ago before he became a columnist. Khalid Mashal is the political leader of Hamas based in Syria, who attained his position based on terrorist work...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2009 2 Comments

It is always a little dangerous when law professors opine on areas of law with which they have little familiarity. That is why I have stayed away from the issue of whether Israel must use "proportionate" force against Hamas. Although I suspected that the term...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2009 12 Comments

Remember Barack Obama's famous attack on John McCain, that McCain wasn't willing to go to the cave where Osama bin Laden was hiding: "John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2009 0 Comments

In a guest column in The Providence Journal, Susanne Garrison Hoder of Tiverton, Rhode Island, "founder of the Interfaith Peace Initiative," compares Israel to Auschwitz prison guards:"The new movie The Reader is a powerful drama about a young man who discovers that a woman from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2008 0 Comments

I want to live: Captured terrorist Azam...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2008 0 Comments

The "alleged terrorist" attacks in Mumbai raise the issue of how to interrogate terrorists captured in the middle of an operation, when information may save innocent lives. In the longer term, the rules governing terrorist interrogation and detention may decide whether the terrorists live or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2008 0 Comments

Here is an example of the type of people Indian authorities were dealing with:"Indian investigators are examining a satellite phone and GPS map recovered from a trawler, the Kubar, floating in the Arabian Sea. The crew was missing from the vessel except for its master...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2008 0 Comments

Reports from Mumbai, India, indicate that authorities have captured one or more of the terrorists responsible for attacks on hotels and other civilian locations. Although the attacks have been going on for over two days, as of this moment the situation is not completely under...

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