jpost.com - 1/26/2009
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The number of anti-Semitic attacks around the world during Israel's three-week military operation against Hamas in Gaza was up more than 300 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching a two-decade high, according to figures released Sunday by the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism. ...
jpost.com - 1/26/2009
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jpost.com —
Hamas bears full responsibility for the war in
Gaza, a top EU official said Monday in the...
Strip, calling the group "a terrorist movement." "At this time we have to also recall the overwhelming responsibility of Hamas," Louis Michel, European ...
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Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/26/2009
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The Israeli attack on Gaza during the last
weeks of the Bush administration looks more than ever...
like Bush's "last gift" to Israel and to the region -- carried out during the transition, with no American attempt to intervene, ending ...
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How badly did Gaza poison the well?
michaeltotten.com - 1/27/2009
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michaeltotten.com —
I've just returned from a week-long trip through
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Israel's border with Gaza, and...
I'm reminded all over again of what has been beaten into me during my many visits to the Middle East: there is no solution to the problems that ...
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"Highest anti-Semitism rates in 2 decades" - BUT IT'S THE JOOOOZE OWN FAULT!
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JPOST: The number of anti-Semitic attacks around the world during Israel's three-week military operation against Hamas in Gaza was up more than 300 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching a two-decade high, according to figures released Sunday by the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism. The words 'Jew dog assassins' and 'terrorist' and a swastika-defaced Star of David appear in spray paint in Caracas, Venezuela, last week. The Israeli forum's annual report, released ahead of Tuesday's International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also cited the "conspicuous" comparisons being made between Israel's actions ...
The UK: Labour, “Conservatives” and the Israel-Hamas Conflict
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
In the last few days several Labour ministers have harangued the BBC over its decision not to run an aid appeal for Gaza. But BBC director general Mark Thompson insists that airing the appeal might compromise the corporation’s impartiality.(1) Secretary for International development Douglas Alexander has written to Thompson, asking him to reconsider his position. ...
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