Attendees: NC Edwin Robins OH; PNC Michael Berman NJ; PNC Paul Bernstein NY; Jerry Blum CT; PNC Warren S. Dolny NY; Elliott Donn CT; Don Feldman PA; Larry Holman PA; Jay Kaatz NY; Saul Laub OH; PNC Monte Mayer VT/NY; David Rivkin NY; Debby Stern FL; Herb Tanzman NJ
Staff: NED Herb Rosenbleeth; Larry Richardson; Cheryl Waldman
Subject: Israel and Foreign Affairs
- Allied Mission and JWV Leadership Mission for February of 2010 have been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later in the year:
- Goldstone report for UN found both Israel and Hamas committed offenses but report was not balanced and remains controversial
- Controversy over trying of 9/11 terrorists in civilian court in New York
- Some fear trial will become forum for anti-Semitism
- Call participants recommended the position that 9/11 events were not an act of war but were a crime and should correctly be tried in civilian court in the venue in which crime occurred so JWV shouldl not participate in any demonstrations against NY civilian trial
- Attacks cannot be considered an act of war because war has not been officially declared
- Those captured on battlefield will still be tried in military court
- JWV National Commander participated in White House teleconference on Afghanistan
