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Goldstone, Israel's Frankenstein Monster

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, Bradley Burston, Un, Idf, Ehud Barak, World News

I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.

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Turkey TV Drama Shows Israeli Soldiers Brutally Killing Children, Exacerbating Rift Between Nations (VIDEO)

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Israel, Turkey, Israel Turkey, Turkey Israel, Video, Avigdor Lieberman, Idf, Turkey Idf Video, Avigdor Lieberman Turkey, Ayrilik, Gaza War, Turkey Video Israel, Turkey Gaza Video, Turkey Israel Video, Turkey, Israel, Home News

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday complained to Turkey over a new television drama airing there that depicts Israel Defense Forces soldi...

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Has Israel Become Dependent on Terrorism?

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bradley Burston, Idf, Barack Obama, World News

Terrorism remains central to Israel's explanations of many of the most morally problematic of its policies, including the siege of Gaza and restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.

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Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Liberty, Uss-Liberty, Idf, Iran, Israel, Israel Iran, Iran Israel, Politics News

Zbigniew Brzezinski made news recently by implying that the US should be prepared to militarily confront any Israeli planes headed for a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

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Can There Be Such a Thing as an Israeli Hero?

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Heroes, Talmud, Rosh Hashanah, Bradley Burston, Astronauts, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Idf, Judaism, World News

There is a sense that the transgressions of Israelis are so grave that they have lost their right to grieve over their own very real tragedies.

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Former Israeli Soldiers Rescue U.S. Citizen Held Hostage By Palestinian Husband

Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: West Bank, Idf, Us Citizen Hostage Israel, Israel, Tulkarm, Us Citizen Hostage Palestine, Israel Soldier Rescue American Woman, Former Idf, u.s. American Hostage, Palestinian West Bank American Rescued, World News

Ten former Israeli Army soldiers successfully rescued an American citizen and her son who had been held hostage for three years by her husband in a Pa...

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West Bank Settlements: Israel Approving 500 New Apartments

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

JERUSALEM — Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements Sunday, with key leaders speaking out in support of th...

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Omri Marcus | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Army, Humor, Satire, Parody, Mobile Phones, Idf, Cellphones, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel, Comedy, Israelis Palestinians, Arab-Israeli Conflict, FUnny Commercial, Israle Army Wall Commercia, Israel Wall, Israel Video, Israeli Wall Commercial, Troops Play Football, Funny Videos, World News, Cellcom Israel Commercial, Israel Football Wall, Commercial Football Israel, Controversial Israeli Commercial, Controversial Commercial, Israeli Controversial Cell Phone Ad, Palestinian West Bank, Best Commercials, Israeli Army, International Criminal Court, Israeli Patrol, Israeli Commercial, Cellcom Ad, Cell Phone Commercial, Controversial Cellcom Ad, Cellcom Commercial Wall, Cellcom Ad Wall, Cellcom Ads, Cellcom Commercial Controversy, Israel Commercial, Israeli Cell Phone Commercial, Controversial Cell Phone Ad, Cellcom Israel Video Wall, Israeli Commercial Wall Football, Wall Commercial, INternational Criminal Court Rules Wall Illegal, Israel Cellcom Commercial Wall, World News

Palestinians were furious to discover that now not only Fox News ignores their side -- but now even during commercial breaks are they invisible.

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Israela Oron, Fmr. Israeli General, Says Engaging Hamas Critical To Mideast Peace

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Jerusalem, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israela Oron, Israeli Army, Idf, Gaza War, Israel, Breaking the Silence, East Jerusalem, World News

The Huffington Post recently sat down with the former deputy of Israel's National Security Council Brig. Gen (Ret.) Israela Oron to discuss prospects ...

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Hezbollah Converts Lebanese Homes Into Secret Weapons Warehouses: Israel

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Lebanon, Israeli Defense Forces, Israel Hizbollah, Lebanese Army, Hizbullah, Israel Hizbullah, Israel, Hizbollah, UN Forces Lebanon, Idf, Israel Conflict, Lebanese War, Unifil, Hezbollah, World News

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is estimating that Hezbollah has converted hundreds of homes in southern Lebanon into secret warehouses for storing ro...

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Breaking The Silence Claims Over Gaza Rebuffed By IDF Reservists

Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

In part of an ongoing schism within the ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces over alleged abuses against Palestinian civilians during Operation Cast Le...

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Gaza Operation: Israeli Soldiers Tell A Different Story Than Official Military Line

Mikhael Manekin | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Israel, Gaza, Breaking the Silence, Gaza Airstrikes, Gaza War, Foreign Affairs, Gaza City, Israeli Defense Force, Idf Gaza, Gaza Strip, Operation Cast Lead, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Idf, Israel, Israel Gaza, Israel Gaza Operation, Advocacy, World News

Twenty-six soldiers have now come forward to talk about their combat experiences in the Gaza War, and their testimonies are radically different from the official version given by Israel Defense Force spokesmen.

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Breaking The Silence: Former Israeli Soldiers Call Gaza War Reckless

AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers who fought in last winter's Gaza War say the military used Palestinians as human shields, improperly fired incendia...

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Israeli Forces Kill Gaza Teen: Palestinians

Associated Press | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Idf, Hamas, Gaza Civilian Casualties, Israel, Israel Gaza, Gaza Civilians, Idf Gaza, Advocacy, World News

A 17- year-old girl was killed in a blast in central Gaza near the Israeli border Thursday, Hamas security officials said, charging that an Israeli ta...

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Abdul Majid Dudeen Killed By Israeli Forces

Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Abdul Majid Dudeen, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, West Bank, Foreign Affairs, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Idf, Israeli Defense Force, Advocacy, World News

Abdul Majid Dudeen, the leader of Hamas' Ezzidin Al-Qassam Brigades, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in Skak, a town just west of Hebron in...

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Bibi Goes to Washington: How About a Nuclear Free Middle East?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: South Africa's Nuclear Program, Iranian Bomb, President Obama, John Bolton, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Prime Minister Netanyahu, George W. Bush, Iranian Nukes, Iraq, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Pnac, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Dick Cheney, Ploughshares Fund, Iran, Nuclear Free Zone, Benny Morris, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, Project for a New American Century, Aipac, Israeli Bomb, Nuclear Free Middle East, Obama Summit With Netanyahu, Iranian Nuclear Program, Obama-Netanyahu Summit, Obama-Netanyahu Meeting, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, South African Bomb, Bibi Netanyahu, Foreign Policy Initiative, President Barack Obama, Iranian Nuclear Ambitions, Idf, Joe Cirincione, Israel Defense Force, Joseph Cirincione, State of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Afghanistan, Mordachai Vanunu, William Kristol, Politics News

It might be the case that Netanyahu has far more friends in Washington than does the president.

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Israel Drops Gaza Probe, Calls Claims Hearsay

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Israel has officially ended its investigative probe into any possible misconduct by Israeli troops during the Gaza incursion known as Operation Cast L...

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Religious Fundamentalism Spreads... Beyond Islam

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Varun Gandhi, Islam, Fundamentalism, Bible, Sri Ram Sena, Gaza, Judaism, Oic, Islamic Extremists, Taliban, Promised Land, Pope Benedict XVI, Homosexuality, Religion, Hinduism, Avigdor Lieberman, Torah, Quran, Christianity, Idf, Israel, Old Testament, Stoning, World News

It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.

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Gaza War: Israel Disputes Palestinian Claim On Gaza Deaths

AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Thursday disputed Palestinian claims that most of the people killed in the recent Gaza Strip war were civili...

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President Obama Offers Iran "A Promise of a New Day"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: "A New Year/a New Beginning, The Tonight Show, Central Intelligence Agency, Iran-US Diplomacy, Obama's New Year Greeting to Iranians, Cia, John Bolton, US-Iran Relations, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Nowruz, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Obama's Message to Iran, Israel Defense Forces, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Benny Morris, Iran-American Relations, Avigdor Lieberman, Mohammed Mossedegh, Iranian New Year, Aipac, Zbigniew Brzezenski, David Broder, Thomas Friedman, Norman Podhoretz, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Bibi Netanyahu, Obama's Message to Iran, John Foster Dulles, President Barack Obama, Charles Freeman, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Idf, Jay Leno, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Israel, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Iranians, Shah, Savak, Obama's Statement to Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

Obama's promise of a new day in U.S.-Iranian relations must be given the opportunity to bear fruit free from outside intervention.

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In the Shadow of Gilad Shalit's Captivity

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Jerusalem, Terrorism, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Idf, Gilad Shalit, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News

How can I go to bed at night knowing that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit probably has no bed?

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Thoughts on the Death of Rachel Corrie

David Bromwich | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Lords of the Land, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Rachel Corrie, Israel Defense Forces, Idf, Israel, Israel Gaza, Idf Gaza, World News

Six years ago Corrie was run over by an IDF armor-plated bulldozer, a machine sold by the U.S. to Israel, the armor put in place for the purpose of knocking down homes without damage to the machine.

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Palestinian Youth Killed In Clash In Hebron

Yediot Ahronot | Efrat Weiss | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Palestine Conflict, West Bank Israel, Stone-Throwers, West Bank, Middle East, Palestinian, Clashes in Hebron, Idf, Israel, Hebron, World News

A 14-year old Palestinian was killed Friday afternoon in Hebron in what was apparently a clash between stone-throwers and IDF soldiers....

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My Military's Moral Low

Simcha Leventhal | Posted 03.03.2009 | World

Read More: Civillians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Violence, Israeli Airstrikes, Hamas, Qassam Rockets, Israel Hamas, Death, Hamas Gaza, Soldiers, Military, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Idf, Israel, Sderot, World News