Lebanon Lurches toward Disaster, While Posing a Threat to Israel
Explosions, trials, and Iranian hegemony.
August 5, 2020
Why the laser focus on Israel, especially when more serious cases are ignored?
The retail giant Amazon recently agreed to pay a fine to the Treasury Department for doing business in Russian-occupied Crimea in violation of American sanctions. While the decision—and the regulations behind it—is undoubtedly just, to Brenda Shaffer and Jonathan Schanzer it highlights the inconsistencies of U.S. law when it comes to doing business in occupied territories:
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Why the laser focus on Israel, especially when more serious cases are ignored?
A timely lesson from Tu b’Av.