nytimes.com - 1/8/2009
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At a time when Israel is bombing Gaza to try to smash Hamas, it’s worth remembering that Israel itself helped nurture Hamas. When Hamas was founded in 1987, Israel was mostly concerned with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement and figured that a religious Palestinian organization would help undermine ...
foxnews.com - 1/8/2009
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foxnews.com —
Thursday, January 08, 2009 By Jennifer Lawinski A
high-profile Norwegian doctor who has said the September 11
terrorists were justified in their attack is now treating patients in Gaza and is being accused of presenting "hard-core propaganda" to TV ...
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High-Profile Doctor in Gaza Called an 'Apologist for ...
confederateyankee.mu.nu - 1/9/2009
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confederateyankee.mu.nu —
As the IDF campaign in Gaza continues, so
do attempts by Hamas and Hamas sympathizers to use
the western media as an often willing propaganda tool. Yesterday, media critic Charles Johnson commented on Little Green Footballs about a 2-minute CNN...
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Anatomy of a Media Hoax
ynetnews.com - 1/8/2009
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ynetnews.com —
Report: Hamas stealing aid supplies to sell to
residents Grim picture of Gazans' lives painted by reports
emerging from Strip, claiming gunmen hiding in civilian homes, using residents as human shields, and hijacking trucks of humanitarian aid Roee ...
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Report: Hamas stealing aid supplies to sell to residents ...
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
Your one stop pundit shop. Jimmy Carter believes that the "devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided." Nicholas Kristof described the Boomerang Syndrome: Arab terrorism built support for right-wing Israeli politicians, who took harsh actions against Palestinians, who responded with more terrorism, and so on. Extremists on each side sustain the other, and the excessive Israeli ground assault in Gaza is likely to create more terrorists in the long run. If this pattern ...
Time: Israel Can’t Win
Matthew Yglesias —
... take on how the US should approach the whole region and and one of the things the Washington Post Company did after buying Foreign Policy was hire Walt. There was a neocon effort to intimidate Joe Klein into backing down on something or other he said and that didn’t work. And now what’s on the cover of Time magazine but this: “The siege of Gaza may punish Hamas but won’t make Israel safe.”
And there was this great column yesterday from Nicholas Kristof and now this from Roger Cohen and ...
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