normblog.typepad.com - 2/4/2009
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This is a post about war crimes in Gaza and the widespread public outrage over them directed at Israel. Since it is a long post, I begin by providing a brief map of what is to follow. In Part 1...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 2/11/2009
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com —
As I noted, I'm pretty far from Israel
(geographically, that is), but my cell phone works in...
the western desert, and I've been talking to friends in Tel Aviv. A number of quick observations: 1. The stunner, for me at least: The Labor Party is dead. ...
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A Stunning Israeli Election
pajamasmedia.com - 2/5/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
AN INSTAPUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: A report from Michael Yon.
It’s Raining By Michael Yon 05 February 2009 There...
had been a light, cold drizzle just before the Muslim taxi driver picked me up in Jerusalem. It should be a 90-minute drive to Sderot, in ...
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AN INSTAPUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: A report from Michael ...
haaretz.com - 1/29/2009
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haaretz.com —
In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, a
group of American university professors has for the first...
time launched a national campaign calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. While Israeli academics have grown used to such news from Great ...
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For first time, U.S. professors call for ...
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Norm Geras on Gaza
The Glittering Eye —
... I rarely post on the subject of Israel and the Palestinians because it’s utterly outside of my area of expertise and a thankless task to boot. Check Norm Geras’s post on war crimes in Gaza. ...
NORM GERAS: One-eyed in Gaza. “In the outpouring of hatred towards Israel today, it scarcely matte…
Instapundit —
... NORM GERAS: One-eyed in Gaza. “In the outpouring of hatred towards Israel today, it scarcely matters what part of it is impelled by a pre-existing hostility towards Jews as such and what part by a groundless feeling that the Jewish state is especially vicious among the nations of the world and to be obsessed about accordingly. Both are forms of anti-Semitism. The old poison is once again among us.” ...
One-sided views of Gaza
Israel Matzav —
... Normblog looks at the one-sided views of Gaza among 'human rights activists' and in the media, and discusses why they are unwilling to look at human rights violations on Hamas' side (Hat Tip: ...
One-Eyed In Gaza
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Norm Geras: To hold Israel to the standards of international humanitarian law, the
elementary standards entailed by codes of human rights, is only right
and proper. But to hold Israel to those standards, but not also its
regional adversaries, suggests a special hostility towards it
that needs some explanation. Not all of this hostility can be accounted
anti-Semitic. But some of it is. Only the blindest can ignore the plain
manifestations of anti-Semitism now evident both amongst Israel's
regional adversaries and within the worldwide protests against ...
Watcher's Council Results
Rhymes With Right —
... Chronicles at Pajamas Media - Conventional versus Non-Conventional Warfare and Why Israel Did Not Lose in Gaza Second place with 1 2/3 points - (T * ) - American Thinker - Change: The First Three Weeks Second place with 1 2/3 points - (T * ) - Nat Hentoff/Cato Institute - Th eCost Of Criticizing Jihadists Third place with 1 1/3 points - (T * ) - Roadsassy - Truth Be Told: Calling a Spade a Spade Third place with 1 1/3 points - (T * ) - Norm Geras - One-Eyed in Gaza Third place with 1 1/3 points - (T * ) - Reason.com - The Next ...
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