firedoglake.com - 12/30/2008
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I came back from an eight day holiday trip to Jamaica to find that something quite remarkable was happening in the blogosphere. For years, the subject of Israel has been the biggest third rail subject we have to deal with. Any time we wanted to mention Israel in a post we had to alert the ...
salon.com - 12/30/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) University of Maryland's
Program on International Policy Attitudes -- July 1, 2008...
: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that in 14 of them people mostly say their government should not take sides in the ...
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George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards ...
btselem.org - 12/28/2008
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btselem.org —
Palestinians who died after medical treatment was delayed
due to restrictions of movement . Palestinians killed by...
an explosive device that they set or was on their person . 12 Palestinian citizens of Israel killed within Israel by the Israeli Police ...
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Statistics - Fatalities
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 12/29/2008
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If someone was sending rockets on my house
where my daughters were sleeping at night, I would...
do everything to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing. These aren't my words -- they're Barack Obama's. But I attach myself to this ...
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The Gaza War
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Predictably, FOX News Uses Middle East Conflict To Push War Against Iran
News Hounds —
... John Bolton as its sole guest to discuss the latest Israeli conflict on last night's (12/29/08) Hannity & Colmes. As Jane Hamsher pointed out in an interesting post, the knee-jerk, pro-Israel American media response is beginning to change. But not on FOX News. In nearly three hours of prime time (I tuned out after On The Record began rehashing the white gal overboard story also discussed on H&C;), only Alan Colmes cast doubt on Israel's tactics, though he was more skeptical than critical. Nobody else even went that far. But Bolton didn't just support Israel. As he has whenever ...
The Third Rail
Suburban Guerrilla —
Some signs of change in the blogosphere in the discussion over Israel and the Gaza war. In addition to the fine work of Glenn Greenwald, Jane Hamsher notes the pushback from Time’s Joe Klein; Open Left is home to some of the most thoughtful discussions around; and Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher, is pushing the media to do their jobs.
Paul Rosenberg:
You see, I think it’s pretty obvious, and quite rational why a progressive blog, particularly one with a significant Jewish presence, would focus ...
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