huffingtonpost.com - 1/2/2009
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This is a guest post written by Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative. These comments and views are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Huffington Post . Barghouti is a former secular candidate for President of Palestine and has been a ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a...
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
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
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
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prospect.org —
This blog is on a light schedule today
and tomorrow due to various New Years related program...
activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ...
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AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
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The Huffington Post: Israeli-Occupied Territory
Antiwar.com Original —
... :"Huffington Post was so very kind this week to give space to almost frustratingly moderate Palestinian intellectual Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi. In his well-reasoned article , Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood,' he supplied all the basic facts behind the problems in Palestine.
But what gives with the long disclaimer marring the top of Barghouthi's article?"HuffPo runs all kinds of commentary from all over the political spectrum (or at least its leftish side), but only those who dare speak against the sainted Israelis seem to require an editorial ...
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