Perspectives in Haaretz

Haaretz has an article today on the organ harvesting issue, which gives some reasonable perspectives. An excerpt;

Sydsvenska Dagbladet also attacked the envoy, with an editorial that asked: "Since when was it the role of the government to represent, through its ambassador, the opinions of all Swedes, and to criticize the journalistic consideration of the free media?"

The results of a poll conducted by Svenska Dagbladet showed that 66 per cent of the 1,300 respondents ruled out offering any apology to Israel, 31 percent said the Aftonbladet should apologize, and only 3 percent supported a formal apology by the Swedish government. In addition, 92 percent of the 4,500 participants in a survey taken by the Dagens Nyheter newspaper said that Israel's demand for an apology was "unreasonable."

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Hass: 'Time to believe Gaza war crimes allegations'

Amira Hass writes in Haaretz.

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Interview with Phyllis Bennis on war crimes, Israel and US politics

Interview by the Real News Network with Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Moralisk kollaps på Dagen

Dagen, en tidning som ofta anstränger sig för att hitta positiva vinklar på nyheter om Israels krigsbrott, hade igår en artikel om avslöjanden om krigsbrott i Haaretz. Bl.a. skrivs "Flera kommentatorer har påpekat att Israels armé är den mest moraliska i världen". Inte som del av citat, utan som ett konstaterande i nyhetstext.

Behöver jag tillägga att Dagen inte skriver en enda rad om kraven från israeliska människorättsorganisationer på en oberoende utredning av anklagelserna om krigsbrott?

Bloggat: Maria, Kildén & Åsman, Röda Berget, QoL, Motvalls

Haaretz: 'New EU president is a true friend of Israel, a Zionist prince'

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz carries an article today on the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg (photo: Oldřich Škácha). According to Haaretz;

"Going by his most recent statements and the descriptions in Jerusalem of his activities, one might have formed the impression that here we have a "Zionist prince:" He was active in initiating a Euro-Israeli conference to advance Israel's integration into the EU, he has declared that Operation Cast Lead was a "defensive measure" and he has rejected calls in Europe for investigation of "war crimes committed by the Israel Defense Forces.""