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The Elor Azaria Case and the Murderer or Hero Dilemma
No full textOn Thursday morning, March 24, 2016, Israel Defense Forces Sergeant Elor Azaria killed a severely wounded Palestinian terrorist, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif who was incapacitated when mortally shot. For this act, Azaria was convicted of manslaughter by a military court and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment subsequently reduced by the IDF Chief of Staff, General Gadi Eizencot.
The decision to prosecute Azaria, his subsequent conviction and incarceration, rocked Israeli society reflecting deep fissures on powerful issues, including, but not limited to, what is the normative moral standard expected of soldiers in a non-traditional conflict. The title of this chapter-murderer or hero-is intended to reflect the wide chasm that defined the debate in Israel, which extended well beyond the specific action in the streets of Hebron in the West Bank where Azaria killed al-Sharif.
That is not to diminish the importance of Azaria’s actions, but rather to highlight other aspects of the case that demand our attention. By broadening the scope of issues pertinent to the Azaria case, the intent is to provide a glimpse both into Israeli society and the IDF culture. Both are important when considering the broader consequences of a mis-begotten decision by one soldier, highlighting the impact of one military trial. The incitement by politicians, the cacophony from the public, the constant media attention became a story onto themselves, perhaps over-shadowing the actual trial. Covering the trial required addressing its implications and ramifications on Israeli society; there came to be two stories.
History and precedent are important, facts and circumstances notwithstanding. The question of whether-and where-to prosecute an IDF soldier was previously confronted by the public, the judiciary, and senior commanders. In short, the then Judge Advocate General, BG Amnon Strashnov decided not to prosecute (then) Col. Yehuda Meir for his actions in 1988 during the early stages of the Palestinian intifada but rather to bring Meir before a disciplinary hearing. In response to a petition filed by a human rights organization to the Supreme Court (sitting as the High Court of Justice), the Court ordered Meir’s prosecution before a Military Court which subsequently convicted him and lowered his rank to Private.
Public reaction literally, exploded in the streets where the Military Court is located. Demonstrations were so loud, sometimes so profane, the judicial process was hard pressed to hear itself. The trial became a critical part of the Israeli domestic dialogue; the decision to prosecute inflaming passions and emotions. Lost in the noise, perhaps deliberately, was that Azaria had killed al-Sharif long after the threat he posed had dissipated. We came to learn this because of the video of the event that went viral immediately.
The video depicts the following: al-Sharif lying prone on the ground, soldiers milling about in his presence in a manner clearly suggesting he is not perceived as posing a threat, Azaria exchanging words with a fellow soldier, taking a few steps toward al-Sharif, loading-cocking his rifle, taking aim and firing one shot directed at the head of the wounded terrorist. Careful viewing of the video does not suggest al-Sharif posed a danger to Azaria or the other soldiers, certainly not to Azaria when he approached al-Sharif from behind him while he was lying on his back
Amos Stagg Biography
No full textThis is a brief biography of Springfield College faculty member and alumnus Alonzo Amos Stagg. An All-American Yale player, Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) brought football to the YMCA Training College (now Springfield College) and coached the institution’s first team in 1891. This document is most likely written and created by someone at Springfield College, but the exact author is unknown.For more information on Amos Alonzo Stagg, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/661Paper is fragile
User guide to the Centre for Population Change GHS database 1979-2009
No full textMáire Ní Bhrolcháin originated the proposal to create a time-series database of General Household Survey demographic histories from the 1970s to the present and was Principal Investigator on the project to create the data file. Éva Beaujouan assembled the database, with assistance from Mark Lyons-Amos, under the direction of Máire Ní Bhrolcháin and Ann Berrington. All authors have contributed to the compilation of this User Guide but Éva Beaujouan is its principal author
The Grouped Author-Topic Model for Unsupervised Entity Resolution
No full textThis paper describes a generative approach for tackling the problem of identity resolution in a completely unsupervised context with no fixed assumption regarding the true number of identities. The problem of entity resolution involves associating different references to authors (in a paper's author list, for example) with real underlying identities. The references may be written in differing forms or may have errors, and identical references may refer to different real identities. The approach taken here uses a generative model of both the abstract of a document and its list of authors to resolve identities in a corpus of documents. In the model, authors and topics are associated with latent groups. For each document, an abstract and an author list are generated conditioned on a given group. Results are presented on real-world datasets, and outperform the best performing unsupervised methods.</p
Letter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from the New York Athletic Club not dated
No full textLetter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from the New York Athletic Club. The letter is not dated and the author's name is not readable. The letter states the regrets that a team cannot be formed in time to play in early October, but possible later in the season. The author addresses Stagg as "Lonny." The letter is part of a series of letters received by Stagg regarding arrangements to play Springfield College in Football.For more information on Amos Alonzo Stagg, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/661Brackets and question marks in the text field represent words or phrases that were not readable due to the authors handwriting. The envelope for this item exists. To see envelope, click here: http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15370coll2/id/14464/rec/
Letter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from Weslyan University dated September 23, 1891
No full textLetter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from the Weslyan University Foot Ball Association dated September 23, 1891 asking if October 10, 1891 is free for a game and offering $50 from the receipts. The author of the letter is thought to F.W. Taskaberry, but the writing is hard to read and this transcription might be inaccurate. The letter is part of a series of letters received by Stagg regarding arrangements to play Springfield College in Football.For more information on Amos Alonzo Stagg, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/661Brackets and question marks in the text field represent words or phrases that were not readable due to the authors handwriting. The envelope for this item exists. To see envelope, click here
Letter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from the New York Athletic Club not dated
No full textLetter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from the New York Athletic Club. The letter is not dated and the author's name is not readable. The letter states the team has an open date on October 24, 1891 since a game with the Princeton Football team cannot be played at that time. The money offered for the game is $100 or one-third of the take. The author addresses Stagg as "Lonny." The letter is part of a series of letters received by Stagg regarding arrangements to play Springfield College in Football.For more information on Amos Alonzo Stagg, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/661Brackets and question marks in the text field represent words or phrases that were not readable due to the authors handwriting. The envelope for this item is not available
Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, Ilahiyyat
No full textThis book is an integral Italian annotated translation of the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifā', the masterpiece on metaphysics by this author. It encompasses a comprehensive introduction, it is based on a thorough revision of the Arabic original text (see the list of corrections), and includes (for the first time among translations of Avicenna into European languages) cumulative indexes of authors and works cited by Avicenna
Proposals by Amos Lay. Geographer and map publisher, Author and publisher of the late maps of the northern part of the State of New-York, upper and lower Canada. For revising, correcting, and republishing from the latest authorities and from a
No full textOn verso: Amos. Lay 215, National Annual 150-/334
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