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„We are witnessing a conflict between two peoples or societies on the same piece of land over which each of them thinks it has rights“
Interview with Hanoch Ben-Yami, Professor in Philosophy at CEU, Budapest
- 04-08-2014
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Edward KANTERIAN
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Professor Hanoch Ben-Yami was born in Israel and served for three years in the IDF. He studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, where he earned his PhD. After postdoctoral studies and research at Oxford University he lectured at Tel-Aviv University. He then moved to the Central European University in Budapest, where he is currently the head of the Department of Philosophy. Ben-Yami works and writes on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Logic, on the Philosophy of Physics and on the philosophy of Descartes and of Wittgenstein. He maintains close connections with Israel and the Israeli Academia, and continues to be involved in social and political debates in Israel. Professor Ben-Yami, we are witnessing a new and bloody conflict concerning Israel and Gaza. Since the Operation Protective Edge began two weeks ago, some 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis, especially soldiers, have been killed. What were the immediate causes of this conflict? The current military conflict is the result of a chain of escalating events, triggered by the kidnapping on June 12th of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel attributed the kidnapping to Hamas and […]
„Stat înafara legii” este și un stat care încalcă dreptul internațional. Dacă ne gîndim la Rezoluția 242 / 1967 a Consiliului de securitate care cere retragerea Israelului din teritoriile ocupate și la faptul că această rezoluție – ca orice altă rezoluție a Consiliului de Securitate – este normă de drept internațional, răspunsul devine evident pentru orice om de bună credință. Ca să fiu mai clar citez din Rezoluția cu pricina Articolul 1 în întregime:
The Security Council, …
1. Affirms that the fulfilment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
(i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from teritorries occupied in the recent conflict;
(ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerancy and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignity, teritorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
„INEVITABLY killing many civilians in the process”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) – an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University:
„the civilian infrastructure of adversaries such as Hamas or Hezbollah are treated as permissible military targets, which is not only an overt violation of the most elementary norms of the law of war and of universal morality, but an avowal of a doctrine of violence that needs to be called by its proper name: state terrorism.”