jpost.com - 29 days ago
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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 "Muhammad's army will be back to wipe off the ...
boston.com - 22 days ago
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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
israelmatzav.blogspot.com - 22 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
newyorker.com - 25 days ago
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In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt
and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing...
station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the ...
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Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli ...
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Thousands of Gazans Rally For Israel's Destruction
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... And the diplomats continue to say that Israel has a partner in peace in the form of the Palestinians? Here are the Gazans once again getting together to call for Israel's destruction . They do so to commemorate and honor the death of the founder of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad, who repeatedly called for Israel's destruction before he met his demise. The demonstrations once again engage in the ...
TENS OF THOUSANDS AT GAZA ISLAMIC JIHAD RALLY
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JP: 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 "Muhammad's army will be back to wipe off the Hebrew state." ISRAEL CAN'T MAKE PEACE WITH THESE FOLKS AND DEMANDING THAT THEY DO IS ANTISEMITIC. ...
"Peace Process" Follies
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... Negotiations are not an end in themselves, however. We hear a lot about obstacles to the "peace proces," much less about the actual obstacles to peace. The latter were on display on Friday, as tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad supporters rallied in Gaza: ...
US Words Thwart Middle East Peace
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Two loud wake-up calls came in from the Middle East over the weekend. The next voice you hear will be from the U.S. House of Representatives, which will vote this week (perhaps as soon as Tuesday) on H.R. 867, an AIPAC-sponsored resolution denouncing the Goldstone Report. That's the UN fact-finding mission accusing Israel as well as Hamas of war crimes in Israel's attack on Gaza last December. The House just might be ready to back away, at least an inch or two, from its usual knee-jerk support for whatever the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee tells it to do. The 148 members of Congress who joined the Host Committee for the recent J Street Conference were yet another sign that ...
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israelmatzav.blogspot.com 22 days ago — 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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huffingtonpost.com 10/7/2009 — JERUSALEM - For Jews around the world, the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is the season of soul-searching, where we ask forgiveness both from God and from our fellow human beings for sins large and small. But this year the Jewish holiday ...
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