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memeorandum.com - 12/31/2008
The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging (Megan McArdle)
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Online news is changing. Increasingly, stories are broken and analyzed in near real-time and away from established news sites. memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing primarily on U.S. politics and current affairs. It auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes, ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
Why I'm Not Blogging More About Gaza
— jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com — Andrew Sullivan just asked me (live, not on e-mail; bloggers at the Atlantic actually talk to each... other) why I haven't been posting more on Gaza. The simple answer is that I'm busy reporting, and I hope to head to the Middle East soon, to personally ... (more) Why I'm Not Blogging More About Gaza

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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/31/2008
The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging
— meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving that one side is righter than the other.  Since... no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you ... (more) The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging

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Israel Soldier _Palestine Girl (video)
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Israel Soldier _Palestine Girl (video)
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The problem with Megan McArdle
Israel Matzav — ... (Hat Tip: Memeorandum ). And when it comes to Israel, the best she can do is to set up a straw man and knock him down. Point out that Israel is killing a lot of civilians and you are told that they had to do something in response to the Hamas rockets. Point out that practically, the response they chose has absolutely no strategic or tactical benefit, and a huge potential downside, and you are castigated for your lack of moral outrage about Hamas's attacks on civilians. Either Israel is doing this because it hopes to gain something, in which case the whole thing is hopelessly ...

IDIOTIC LIBERAL MORAL RELATVISM ON DIPLAY: MCARDLE CAN'T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE IDF AND HAMAS
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