nytimes.com - 4/4/2009
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San Francisco CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come. Hamas’s ...
haaretz.com - 4/1/2009
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haaretz.com —
New foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday
that Israel was changing its policies on the peace...
process and was not bound by commitments it made at a U.S.-sponsored conference to pursue creation of a Palestinian state. During an official ...
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Lieberman: Israel is changing its policies on peace - ...
israellycool.com - 4/2/2009
commentarymagazine.com - 4/4/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
The New York Times publishes an op-ed today
by George Bisharat, the U.S. academic whose professional mission...
is the indictment of Israel for war crimes, no matter how implausible. His piece starts with a lie that the Times itself had an important hand ...
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He Forgot about the Poisoned Wells
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George Bisharat on War Crimes in Gaza
The Moderate Voice —
... Today, George Bisharat has an op-ed in the New York Times laying out the case for why the military and political authorities in the Israeli government who planned and carried out these violations of international law should be held to account. ...
George Bisharat uses NYT to publish out-of-context accusations against the IDF
Israpundit —
... Jerry Gordon comment: Today’s New York Times reopened the fraudulent ‘case’ of IDF soldier actions in Gaza with an Op ed, “Israel on Trial” by University of California Hastings College of Law professor, ...
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