tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/4/2009
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I have just been communicating in the last few minutes with two friends over Facebook -- one a prominent Jewish American blogger now visiting family in an Orthodox community in Israel -- and the other a prominent Arab Muslim blogger living in the Middle East. I don't want to disclose the ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a...
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
forward.com - 1/3/2009
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forward.com —
Opinion Wars sicken me, even wars that I
support. I support Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but watching...
it on TV — the images of bombed-out buildings, crying women and, inevitably, the bodies of innocent bystanders — is a painful experience. I suspect ...
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On Gaza, Sense and Centrism
newsweek.com - 1/4/2009
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newsweek.com —
Jews worry for a living; their tragic history
compels them to do so. In the next few...
years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes to Israel . The current operation in Gaza won't do much to ease these worries or to address ...
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Obama Must Get Tough With Israel to Achieve Peace | ...
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Israeli Professor in Washington Post: War Is “Unnecessary, Cruel and Cynical”
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Israeli Professor in Washington Post: War Is “Unnecessary, Cruel and Cynical” It just gets worse and worse. But, as always, some of the most eloquent anti-war testimonies come from Israel itself. The surprise here is that an American and not an Israeli or European paper published it (the MSM’s bias in… [image] [image] Watching Death Day and Night So Close By. . . I have just been communicating in the last few minutes with two friends over Facebook — one a prominent Jewish American blogger now visiting family in an Orthodox community in Israel — and the other a prominent Arab Muslim blogger… [image] [image] The Grave Dancers I’m so ...
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