nytimes.com - 1/8/2009
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Nearly everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Here are a few key points that seem to be missing from the conversation about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. >
michellemalkin.com - 1/9/2009
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michellemalkin.com —
My syndicated column today looks at the MSM
sneering over Joe Wurzelbacher’s trip to Israel sponsored by
PJTV, recounts how The Fraternal Order of the Professional Journalist has squandered its own credibility, and exposes how liberal media ...
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Who’s afraid of Joe the Journalist?
time.com - 1/8/2009
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time.com —
Soldiers on patrol at Kibbutz Nir Am, a
mile from Gaza. Even after the start of Israel's
Jan. 4 ground offensive, communities near the border remained vulnerable to Hamas' rockets.
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Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/9/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Israel is to keep up its offensive in
the Gaza Strip despite a UN call for an
immediate end to nearly two weeks of conflict involving Hamas militants. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the latest firing of rockets into Israel showed the resolution was ...
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UN ceasefire call goes unheeded
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The Carter Syndrome and Joe the Plumber
Taylor Marsh —
... criticism
from Carter’s last book now at least has him offering examples of Hamas terrorism
as he does today. It doesn’t last long. But Carter’s enduring legacy on the
Israeli-Palestinian chaos is that he’s opened a wide alley for people to voice
opposition to the standard AIPAC line, which has poisoned U.S. Middle East policy
for years. For that Carter deserves a medal. The spawn of Carter, however, is
deserving a syndrome title.
Enter Rashid
Khalidi’s view of the Gaza war, someone who is a member of the Carter syndrome ...
Time: Israel Can’t Win
Matthew Yglesias —
... 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 this from Rashid Khalidi.
Unfortunately, all these expressions of more open-minded ...
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