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Obama's Silence

Tom Hayden | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

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As January 20 approaches, Obama will have to make a lonely decision - to remember his 2007 words about Palestinian suffering and his campaign pledge to talk unconditionally with adversaries.

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AP Reporter Watches Own Home Destroyed, via YouTube, in Gaza

Greg Mitchell | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

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In one of the most moving accounts of the war in Gaza, Ibrahim Barzak, the AP's chief correspondent there for 17 years, today wrote of watching his own home destroyed on YouTube.

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Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments about Gaza

Allan Gerson | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

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Even if the guns fall silent the charges and counter-charges of violations of international law will continue. Already the airwaves are full of talk that Israel's "disproportionate" response is a violation of international law.

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Hold Your Fire: Children and Civilians In Gaza

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

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If the killing of unarmed civilians by terrorist groups is wrong, Israel's killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians and our defense of Israel's conduct cannot be right.

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Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of George Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state?

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How to Defeat Hamas -- Face Up to the Truth

Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Making Hamas into a unique demon is pure propaganda. But no form of Islamic extremism will end until moderate Muslims stand up for their religion.

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Israel's Collective Punishment of Gaza

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

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Israel's airstrikes and ground assault on the people of Gaza have little to do with the Gazan rockets and more to do with its leaders trying to gain an advantage in the upcoming elections.

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Why Israel Was Right to Invade Gaza

Andy Ostroy | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

How should Israel attempt to protect its people, long-term, if it merely acts defensively in a tit-for-tat manner? That would be a horribly naïve response given its history.

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UNSC Res. 250: The International Law Governing Israel's Invasion of Gaza

Eric Lurio | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

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Like the boy who cried wolf, Resolution 250 has stripped the UN of any credibility where Israel is involved.

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Is Mayor Bloomberg Running for President of Israel?

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Bloomberg's rush to travel to Israel in a show of solidarity makes one wonder if he has decided to leave the US and run for president over there. After all he has hopped political parties, why not countries?

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Obama -- Please Say Something!

Lola Adesioye | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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In just over two weeks Obama will be unable to avoid saying something and the world will be looking to him and demanding to hear his opinion on the crisis in Gaza.

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What Was Israel Supposed to Do?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Every day now, I hear someone saying, "What was Israel supposed to do? Hamas keeps firing rockets into their country." So, here is a quick list of the things they were supposed to do.

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Overwhelming Force Is the Only Way to Fight Terrorists

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

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The destruction of Hamas benefits the Palestinians far more than the Israelis. It is they that must live under the cruelty of an organization that terrorizes its citizens even more than its enemies.

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Israel's Risk

Chris Meserole | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

What we're watching in Gaza is not so much low-intensity warfare as the continued fracture of the post-Soviet international order.

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No Exit for Civilians in Gaza in the Midst of War

Ken Bacon | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

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In similar situations around the world, civilians caught in the midst of conflict would have the option of seeking safety in neighboring countries as refugees. Gazans have no such option.

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How Propaganda Hijacked Israeli Strategy in Gaza

David H. Young | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

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While Israel's explicit goal is to cease all attacks on southern Israel, senior IDF and intelligence officials have privately signaled that this is unrealistic, even with a ground invasion.

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Hamas Is Responsible for the Civilian Casualties in Gaza

Mitchell Bard | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

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By choosing tactical advantages over the safety of its citizens, the terrorist organization chose its military goals over the safety of its fellow Palestinians in Gaza.

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Eyeless in Gaza

Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

I wish I didn't believe that the events now unfolding in the Middle East are too complicated for unalloyed outrage. I wish the arguments of only one side rang wholly true to me.

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Why Aren't More Americans Dancing To Israel's Tune?

Max Blumenthal | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

The surprising trend in American opinion on Gaza may be because the same pundits who are cheerleading Israel's assault once sold the occupation of Iraq, and with a nearly identical set of arguments.

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Israel Calling Obama's Bluff

Bob Ostertag | Posted 02.04.2009 | World

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Dividing the planet into a "free world" and an "extremist and terrorist world," rooted in ethnicity and religion, is the exact antithesis of everything Obama has been talking about.

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Israel's Invasion Inspires One-Sided Commentary in U.S. Media

Greg Mitchell | Posted 02.03.2009 | Media

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The invasion, to no one's surprise, did begin today -- so any further criticism will now come too late. But as in the past, U.S. media coverage and commentary has overwhelmingly backed Israeli actions.

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Where Is Israel Going?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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Does the Gaza war improve Israel's long-term (or even short-term) situation? I am not questioning Israel's right to respond. But that is the wrong question.

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After Years in Exile, My Grandfather Returns to Gaza

Laila Al-Arian | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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My family had been trying to speak with my grandfather since Saturday, after Israel began its onslaught on Gaza. But we haven't managed to reach him.

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Israel/Palestine Debate Is Shifting

Dennis Perrin | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media

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With each fresh round of bombing, Israel's reputation gets worse, allowing growing numbers of people who might never have said a critical word about that country to finally speak up.

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