andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/5/2009
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I think Glenn Greenwald - who has less fear than any journalist I know in Washington - is onto something important here : Those who giddily support not just civilian deaths in Gaza
but every actual and proposed attack on Arab/Muslim countries -- from
the war in Iraq to the Israeli invasion of ...
newsweek.com - 1/4/2009
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newsweek.com —
Jews worry for a living; their tragic history
compels them to do so. In the next few
years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes to Israel . The current operation in Gaza won't do much to ease these worries or to address ...
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Obama Must Get Tough With Israel to Achieve Peace | ...
juancole.com - 1/4/2009
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juancole.com —
With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have
entered the age of micro-wars. The first wars that
Israel fought with its Arab neighbors were conventional struggles in which infantry, artillery, armor and air forces played central roles. Israel's ...
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Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars
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Orwell du Jour
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From Notes on Nationalism:
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. . . .
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it ...
The Unserious Left
Weekly Standard Blog —
... left. Glenn Greenwald, as hysterical and long-winded as ever, accuses me of possessing "the very same logic that leads Hamas to send suicide bombers to slaughter Israeli teenagers in pizza parlors and on buses and to shoot rockets into their homes. It's the logic that leads Al Qaeda to fly civilian-filled airplanes into civilian-filled office buildings." Another blogger accuses me of endorsing terrorist ethics, and the Atlantic's in-house gynecologist calls me a thug.
In fact, I was explicitly questioning whether such violence can ...
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