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balloon-juice.com - 12/31/2008
Enough Stupid Arguments About Israel
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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 ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  The Siege Of Gaza: Blog Reax

George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 12/30/2008
George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel - Glenn Greenwald
— 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 ... (more) George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards ...

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rasmussenreports.com - 1/1/2009
Americans Closely Divided Over Israel’s Gaza Attacks
— 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 ... (more) Americans Closely Divided Over Israel’s Gaza Attacks

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What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?
commentarymagazine.com - 12/31/2008
What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?
— 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 ... (more) 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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