balloon-juice.com - 12/31/2008
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Often simply naming something makes it easier to see and understand the next time. Take the argument that pressing crisis X demands some sort of immediate response is sufficient by itself to endorse reaction Y. This is plainly ridiculous. The ways that a stupid or thoughtless person can make a ...
salon.com - 12/30/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) University of Maryland's
Program on International Policy Attitudes -- July 1, 2008
: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that in 14 of them people mostly say their government should not take sides in the ...
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George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards ...
rasmussenreports.com - 1/1/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
Americans, while far more sympathetic to Israel than
the Palestinians, are closely divided over whether the Jewish
state should be taking military action against militants in the Gaza Strip. Forty-four percent (44%) say Israel should have taken ...
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Americans Closely Divided Over Israel’s Gaza Attacks
commentarymagazine.com - 12/31/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
“If someone was sending rockets on my house
where my daughters were sleeping at night, I would
do everything to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” – President-elect Barack Obama Now that Hamas’s long war against Israel is ...
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What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?
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The Siege Of Gaza: Blog Reax
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... a wide range of views
regarding the Israeli offensive. But not among America's political
leadership. There, one finds total, lockstep uniformity almost more
unyielding than what one finds among Israeli leaders themselves -- as
though Israel's wars are, by definition, America's wars; its enemies
are our enemies; its disputes and conflicts and interests are,
inherently, ours; and America's only duty when Israel fights is to
support it uncritically.
Tim F.:
The idea that Israel should always answer violence with
violence is a ...
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