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Hamas-linked group offers cash reward for capture of IDF soldiers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:28:00 +0000

A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of Hamas yesterday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts an Israeli soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on Israeli Arabs to abduct soldiers, but this is the first time money has been offered. The Waad group from ...

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS found this 3 days ago on haaretz.com

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What Does "Pro-Palestinian" Really Mean?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:20:00 +0000

In recent years there has been a significant rise in the number of non-Palestinians who describe themselves as “pro-Palestinian” activists. These people can be found mostly on university campuses in North America and Europe. What is striking is that many of these ...

Commonsense & Wonder found this 3 days ago on hudsonny.org

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The Muslims Are Due On Maple Street

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Had Nidal Malik Hasan been launched from a remotely-piloted Predator drone into a Pakistani funeral procession, it would have been a bold victory in the War on Terror; had the major been dropped onto a village in Waziristan or fired into an Afghan wedding party, it would have represented an ...

Crooks and Liars found this 7 days ago on fafblog.blogspot.com

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IDF troops hang sign at base: We won't evacuate settlers

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:11:53 +0000

A number of Israel Defense Forces from the Nachshon Battalion on Monday hung a sign at their basis proclaiming that their unit would refuse to evacuate Israelis from West Bank settlements. The move comes nearly a month after soldiers from the Shimshon Battalion waved banners with the same ...

The Best Defense found this 4 days ago on haaretz.com

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Mideast: EU rejects calls for a Palestinian state

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:30:52 +0000

Brussels, 17 Nov. (AKI) - The European Union on Tuesday rejected calls by the Palestinian Authority to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, whose country currently holds the presidency of the EU, said conditions in the Palestinian ...

Jihad Watch found this 4 days ago on adnkronos.com

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Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:59:56 +0000

(Jerusalem) - Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The attacks with one of the most precise weapons in Israel's arsenal killed civilians ...

TomDispatch found this 11 days ago on hrw.org

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Israeli navy to deploy robot craft

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:59:56 +0000

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Israeli navy will shortly begin deploying unmanned craft along the Mediterranean coast, particularly off the Hamas-held Gaza Strip in the south and Lebanon in the north where Hezbollah guerrillas operate. These highly maneuverable unmanned surface vehicles, ...

TomDispatch found this 11 days ago on upi.com

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VIDEO House Blocks Access To Goldstone Report

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:38:57 +0000

On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 (22 voted present) in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war. Not only that, in a break with normal procedure, the House refused to agree to Rep. Keith ...

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Israel \'personally attacking human rights group\' after Gaza war criticism

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:41:47 +0000

Bombing in Gaza The Goldstone report, which HRW supported, accused Israel of a disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population. Photograph: Hatem Omar/AP

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines found this 7 days ago on guardian.co.uk

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Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War -- By: Mona Charen

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:00:49 +0000

T he war over the war in Gaza is heating up. Next week, the United Nations General Assembly will consider the tendentious Goldstone Report, the highest profile exercise in blaming the victim in the U.N.’s tawdry history. Simultaneously, lawyers in Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, and ...

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Keith Ellison Blasts Colleagues For Shameful Goldstone Vote

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:36:57 +0000

I have never simply cross posted something I wrote elsewhere but this is important and I am rushed big time. Besides, I am proud to be associated with Media Matters for America and proud that it is my home base these days. I'm rushed because I am in Juneau, fishing and hunting with Levi ...

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Quotes of the day

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:18:39 +0000

“The recent attack on the military base in Texas warns that if the occupation policy of the American rulers continues in this way, without them folding the carpets of occupation and transgression in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is natural then that incidents and attacks similar to Texas will ...

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The US making nice to the terrorists...

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Abomination accepted: U.S. shamefully silent in the face of UN Israel-bashers Editorials Sunday, November 8th 2009, 4:00 AM The United States stood abysmally, disgracefully silent last week as the United Nations General Assembly debated a resolution endorsing the stacked investigation that ...

jhudock posted 13 days ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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Combat volunteers up in Israel after Gaza: report

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

AFP - The number of conscripts volunteering to serve in Israeli combat units has risen to a 10-year-high partly as a result of what the army sees as its success in Gaza, Yediot Aharonot said on Friday. A total of 73 percent of conscripts called up in the second quarter wanted to join combat ...

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