From: makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky)
Subject: Re: bernard stone
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky)
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:29:01 GMT

In article <1ij7idINN87e@manuel.anu.edu.au> bdm@cs.anu.edu.au writes:

# In article 21317@ennews.eas.asu.edu, makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:
 
# >In article <1993Jan7.1777.22217@channel1> "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com> writes:
 
# ># To: David Makowsky

# >#  DM> Bernard Stone is perhaps the leading authority in ther world
# >#  DM> when it comes to international law and the Middle East.
# >#  DM> Among his writngs in the area is "Israel and Plaestine:
# >#  DM> Assault on the laws of Nations".

# ># This is quite odd: I did thorough searches in Hollis (Harvard)
# ># and Melvyl (UCal), and came up with no books on law by Bernard
# ># Stone. All that appeared were a few books on mice (children's
# ># books?).

# ># I called the Harvard Law School library for background info on
# ># Bernard Stone, the eminent international lawyer. They turned up
# ># nothing. Same results from inquiries to a number of other local
# ># libraries.

# ># So what gives?

# >	I may be wrong about his first name, but his last name is Stone.
# >I have read several things by him, but the only one I remember by name
# >is called "Israel and Palestine:  Assault on the laws of Nations".  I
# >do not remember the year, and I am not sure about the publisher but I
# >think the publisher was the John Hopkins University Press.
 
# Israel and Palestine : assault on the law of nations / Julius
# Stone

	I should have realized.  Bernard Stone is my alderman.

#   Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1981
#   xiii, 223 p. : maps ;24 cm.
 
#   ISBN  0801825350
 
#   SUBJECTS.... United Nations - Israel
#                Palestine - International status
#                Israel - International status
 
#   AUTHORS..... Stone, Julius, 1907-
 
# He has written more than 40 books and pamphlets on international law,
# maybe of them focussed on Israel.  He is undoubtedly the leading
# figure amongst the minority of academics in international law who
# consider it their duty to present Israel's case at every turn.

	Ya, ya, ya.  Funny, one could switch "Israel" with Arab, take out
the part about leading, and we could be talking about you.

# I don't know enough law to take on Stone, but it is immediately clear
# that the book does not even pretend to be balanced.  It reads like
# the summing-up you would get from the defense attorney if Israel
# was charged with breaking international law.

	I really do not know how you can say that.  I read the book, and
about the only think I could understand were the conclusions.  The
rest of the book was legaleze that I would never be able to
understand.  Were you able to Brenda, or as usual, are you just making
the above up?

# However, I do know a little about history and I believe that Stone's
# book is loaded with biased and sometimes blatantly false history.
# It doesn't help his legal credibility any.

	Similar to what I said above, all we need to do is switch some
stuff around, and what do we have?  The nets own aborigine.
--
	There are three types of people in the world.  Those that are good
at math and those that are not.

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