Israelis Gather on Hilltops to Watch Gaza Bombing
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 22nd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Israelis Gather on Hilltops to Watch Gaza Bombing
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian: As the sun begins to sink over the Mediterranean, groups of Israelis gather each evening on hilltops close to the Gaza border to cheer, whoop and whistle as bombs rain down on people in a hellish warzone a few miles away. Despite reports that millions of Israelis are living in terror of Hamas rockets, they don’t deter these hilltop war watchers whose proximity to Gaza puts them within range of the most rudimentary missiles. Some bring their children.
Issa Can’t Prosecute Lerner Because of Reagan
Although legal experts warned at the time that little would come of Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) attempt to prosecute former IRS official Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress, Republicans on Issa’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee were infuriated to learn Thursday that a key obstacle is a Reagan administration legal opinion. The conservative lawyer Theodore Olson, while serving in Reagan’s Office of Legal Counsel in 1984, wrote that Congress cannot force a prosecutor to take a contempt of Congress accusation to a grand jury. The prosecutor has discretion not to pursue the charge. “We believe Congress may not direct the executive to prosecute a particular individual without leaving any discretion to the executive to determine whether a violation of the law has occurred,” Olson wrote
