washingtonindependent.com - 25 days ago
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Missing from this otherwise-very good Washington Post piece about the Obama administration’s early and serious missteps on restarting Israel/Palestine peace talks is, unfortunately, the Goldstone commission on Gaza, which is relegated to a single sentence. This is the capsule version: Obama ...
boston.com - 24 days ago
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boston.com —
At Brandeis last night, Richard Goldstone (left) defended
his UN report on Israel’s actions in the Gaza...
invasion. Diplomat Dore Gold said it all but ignored Israel’s right to defend itself. At Brandeis last night, Richard Goldstone (left) ...
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Goldstone defends UN report on Gaza at Brandeis forum
jpost.com - 30 days ago
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jpost.com —
Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists held
a rally in Gaza on Friday to commemorate the...
group's slain founder. Holding plastic models of rockets and wearing masks and mock suicide bomber's vests, the members chanted "death to Israel" and ...
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Thousands of Islamic Jihad supporters gather in Gaza | ...
israelmatzav.blogspot.com - 24 days ago
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israelmatzav.blogspot.com —
This is the first of at least three
posts tonight that will deal with the Goldstone -...
Gold debate I just saw at Brandeis. The first one is my liveblog notes of the debate. The second will include video of the entire debate, which is being uploaded to ...
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Richard Goldstone v. Dore Gold Liveblog
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PA Pres. Abbas to “Step Down”; Was Suppressing Goldstone Worth It?
Firedoglake —
... I got frustrated by the way few people in the media seem to be considering that Obama’s pressure on the Palestinian leadership to suppress the Goldstone report on Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza has destabilized Palestinian politics in a manner beneficial to extremism. You’d have to basically say in public that it would have been preferable to allow the Palestinians to have moved forward in the U.N. Human Rights Council with a vote on Goldstone than, say, ...
Mahmoud Abbas Dropping Out of Palestinian Elections
Matthew Yglesias —
... note that among those begging Abbas to reconsider is not Israel’s prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, who loves the idea of isolating and discrediting Palestinian moderates in order to bring Palestinian radicals to power and thus have the pretext he wants to avoid peace negotiations. The question is why the United States has been helping Netanyahu do this. The Obama administration’s decision to back-track on its initial demand of a settlement freeze, followed by the catastrophically counterproductive pressure that was brought to bear on Abbas to disavow the ...
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