thejewishweek.com - 1/8/2009
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Mirror Lake INN Fresh Rift Emerges Over War Response by James D. Besser Washington Correspondent Beneath the surge of Jewish unity, as a broad spectrum of pro-Israel groups back Israel s Gaza military surge, are differences over tactics, growing uncertainty over exactly how to express support ...
online.wsj.com - 1/10/2009
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online.wsj.com —
GEORGE E. BISHARAT Israel's current assault on the
Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it...
involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior Israeli political and military leaders may bear personal ...
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George E. Bisharat: Israel Is Committing War Crimes
theweek.com - 1/8/2009
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theweek.com —
Good for Shrum for championing Israel s right
to defend itself against the Hamas rocket barrage. He...
is correct, too, that lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians abandon their hope that Israel can somehow be defeated or destroyed. ...
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Why Democrats recoil from Gaza
jstreet.org - 1/5/2009
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jstreet.org —
J Street reiterates its call for strong and
immediate American diplomatic leadership to bring an end to...
the violence through an immediate ceasefire. J Street unequivocally condemns Hamas’ indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel and its use of ...
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Word on the Street
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J Street: The Jews Are Conspiring Against Us
Weekly Standard Blog —
... In short, J Street, like Hamas, has provoked a disproportionate response from the Jews. And like Hamas, J Street is blaming a Jewish conspiracy for its current troubles, a cabal apparently run out of the Israeli embassy in Washington: ...
Reading: Apparently, It’s Not Fundamental For Weekly Standard Editors
Wonk Room —
... …a cabal apparently run out of the Israeli embassy in Washington,” based on this story in the Jewish Week. But, while the JW item does cite sources who “ ...
Demonstrations Tomorrow As Debate Spreads Over Israel's Attack On Gaza
Open Left - Front Page —
... An article in the New York Jewish Week, "Fresh Rift Emerges Over War Response", emailed out by J Street, discussed the heightened level of controversy that J Street has elicited: ...
Tell it to Bar-Kochba:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
"J Street" founder Jeremy Ben-Ami : "The fallacy here [regarding the war in Gaza] is the argument that a military victory against an insurgent group actually is achievable." Of course, there are a lot of much more recent (and often much less bloody) examples of military victories against "insurgent groups" than the Roman victory over Bar Kochba, including, tellingly, Operation Defensive Shield's crushing of the Second Intifada on the West Bank in 2002-03. I continue to remain agnostic on the ultimate wisdom of the Gaza operation, given the information gap between me and those ...
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