newshoggers.com - 1/6/2009
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By Cernig
The Israeli Defense Force has shelled a UN school in the Gaza strip, killing 30 and injuring 55. Israel claims that Hamas militants were using the school as a base to mortar their troops , but the UN says that all the dead and injured were civilians. Even if the IDF were correct, ...
haaretz.com - 1/6/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to
40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the...
Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. The attack brought the Palestinian death toll to nearly 600 in Israel's 11-day offensive on ...
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40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/6/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestinian medical officials say
the death toll from an Israeli airstrike outside a...
United Nations school in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30. The attack occurred about 10 yards (meters) outside the school in northern Gaza. It ...
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Palestinians say strike on 2nd UN school kills 30 - ...
israelnationalnews.com - 1/6/2009
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israelnationalnews.com —
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Az-Zahar claimed victory for
Hamas on Monday, saying Hamas had succeeded in “destroying...
Israel's sense of security” with its rocket attacks. Zahar made his proclamation in video footage sent from a secret ...
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Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children - ...
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In Gaza, Horror Piled Atop Horror
Comments from Left Field —
... Maybe Hamas was firing shells from the school, and maybe it wasn’t. If Hamas was endangering civilians, then of course Israeli soldiers were compelled to do the same. ...
Death Dance
The Mahablog —
... Defense Force shelled a UN school in the Gaza strip, killing 30 people and injuring 55. The UN says all the casualties were civilians, not Hamas. The IDF says mortars were being fired from the school. The UN says the schools were sheltering civilians. According to Little Green Footballs, terrorists were using the schools as a weapons dump. Juan Cole has a video of a young Palestinian woman confronting Israeli troops who were firing on children.
Cernig:
Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly ...
War Crimes In Gaza
Jules Crittenden —
... men, but missed and they fled, the witnesses said, refusing to allow their names to be published because they feared for their safety. Then another three shells landed nearby, exploding among civilians, they said. Palestinian militants have frequently fired from residential areas in the past. I’m pretty sure if Israel was drawing fire on a girls school, it would lede. Big war crime. Now that I think of it, Israeli firing is all that ever does lede. Anyway, looks like someone needs to stick his trotter in his mouth : By Cernig The Israeli Defense Force has shelled a UN school ...
What Some People Didn’t Learn in Kindergarten
The Mahablog —
... A right-winger’s ideas about morality aren’t just arrested. They’re stuck in the Bronze Age. The absolute basis of morality for them is tribal loyalty. The world is sorted into good guys and bad guys. Our side is inherently good, no matter what we do. Their side is inherently bad, which justifies our doing whatever we do. In other words, whether an action is moral or not is not determined by what is done, but by who is doing it.
The other day I quoted Cernig:
Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly ...
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