firedoglake.com - 1/11/2009
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David Sanger has been a very busy chief Washington correspondent. His report on the “sheer scariness” of the insecurity of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal appears today in the New York Times Magazine , but he also had a major article in the paper yesterday. The Saturday article, " U.S. ...
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
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
jta.org - 1/9/2009
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jta.org —
January 7, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- About a
thousand people packed a Washington synagogue for a community
pro-Israel rally. Five members of Congress and Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor were among the speakers Wednesday at the standing-room only ...
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D.C. rally for Israel attracts 1,000 | JTA - Jewish ...
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Newshoggers.com —
... " Sanger is lying again as he rolls out the next stage in the "Attack Iran" PR campaign, claiming that the Bush administration refused to sell penetrator bombs to Israel that it...umm... previously admitted selling to Israel. In the course of his article, he also managed to confirm Sy Hersh's reporting on covert action against Iran and repeat the neocon spin about the last Iran NIE. If the Fifth Branch told Sanger the sky was purple (unofficially, of course), he'd faithfully report it without looking up - that's why he's a ...
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