{"id":5935,"date":"2010-06-15T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:06:18","slug":"panel-to-examine-gaza-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/15\/panel-to-examine-gaza-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel to examine Gaza raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5936\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Israel-flag-150x150.png\" alt=\"Israel flag\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>In an effort to stave off calls for an international inquiry and international criticism, Israel&#8217;s cabinet <a title=\"approved\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE65D0ZD20100615\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> a government-appointed commission with foreign participation to investigate the deadly commando raid\u00a0last month\u00a0on a flotilla bound for blockaded Gaza.\u00a0 But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/\">international relations <\/a>Professor <a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Hezbollah: A Short History\" href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8363.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah: A Short History<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; says the proposed Israeli panel falls well short of impartiality and credulity.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe board is charged to address the blockade&#8217;s legality, but it is noteworthy that the <a href=\"www.icrc.org\">International Committee of the Red Cross,<\/a> not an organization given to rash judgments, has already noted that Israel&#8217;s blockade of Gaza is a violation of the Geneva Convention.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to stave off calls for an international inquiry and international criticism, Israel&#8217;s cabinet approved a government-appointed commission with foreign participation to investigate the deadly commando raid\u00a0last month\u00a0on a flotilla bound for blockaded Gaza.\u00a0 But international relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, author of &#8220;Hezbollah: A Short History,&#8221; says the proposed Israeli panel falls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3152,176,3072,518,3070,3115,3153,3073,202,540,3071,3074],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}