Israel Airstrikes

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Why Jews Are Viewed as Aggressors

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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Why is it so easy to blame the Jews as aggressors even when it is clear beyond the shadow of a doubt that they are the innocent victims?

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Israel Is Well Within Its Rights

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Surely Israel has as much right to defend its citizens as did the United States and Great Britain during World War II. Why then is Israel singled out for such ferocious criticism?

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War Diary from Sderot

Nomika Zion | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Not in my name and not for me did you go into this war. The bloodbath in Gaza is not in my name nor for my security. Behind this accursed leadership of Hamas live human beings.

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Israel: United, Except When It's Not

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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It's very east to make generalities about a united Israel when one doesn't include Israeli dissidents, who are jailed when protesting the war against the Palestinian people.

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Bomb A Ghetto, Raise A Cheer -- The Video

Max Blumenthal | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

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On January 11, an estimated 10,000 people rallied in front of the Israeli consulate in New York in support of Israel's attack on Gaza. The event was a festive affair that began and ended with singing and joyous dancing.

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Gaza: The War On Children

Jamal Dajani | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

Israel has accused Hamas of intentionally attacking from civilian-populated areas, driving up casualties among non-combatants to provoke anger against Israel. But do children have to pay the price?

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The CNN-NPR-NYT Middle East Conspiracy

Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

When people complain about bias in the media, it's always bias against their own point of view, and never in favor of their side. Nowhere is this more true than in coverage of the Middle East.

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Israel in Gaza: Three Wrong Arguments

Howard Schweber | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

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The Reid/McConnell resolution is a perfect articulation of one voice in the American debate over Israel's actions in Gaza. Here are a few objections that should be raised.

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How Israel's Propaganda Machine Works

James Zogby | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

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As in past Mideast conflicts, both the media story line and political commentary here in the U.S. has closely followed Israel's talking points on the war.

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It's Time for a Sustained Focus on a Lasting Middle East Peace

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

What we continue to lack is the kind of real political solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that could finally make a "ceasefire" endure.

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Video Reveals that a Lack of Moral Center Is Central to Hamas's War Strategy

Mitchell Bard | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

The whole world is quick to condemn Israel for civilian deaths in Gaza, but there is utter silence over Hamas's blatant disregard for the lives of its own citizens.

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Neo-Nazis For Israel?

Max Blumenthal | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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While much of the neo-Nazi fringe remains opposed to the existence of Israel, the whites-only British National Party recently declared its full-throated support for Israel's attack on Gaza.

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Israel: There Has To Be A Better Way

John Bruhns | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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The war between Israel and Hamas is not as two-dimensional as the United States Senate would like to believe. This is a complex and asymmetric war that will not end favorably for either side.

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While Gaza Burns, the World Watches

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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Unless Israel can make five to seven million Palestinians disappear, it must find some way to co-exist with them. Israeli leaders on the center and right continue to avoid facing this fact.

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Fanaticism and Contempt

Maxwell Kennedy | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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Once the master of revolutionary war, Israel cannot seem to grasp the essential nature of asymmetrical warfare.

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Obama Camp "Prepared To Talk To Hamas," Says the Guardian

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration's emphasis on "talk" with Hamas will bring a significant moral shift in U.S. policy -- but it will not do away with some of the core grievances vis-a-vis U.S.-Israel relations.

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What Israel Can Learn From Turkey

GroundReport | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. By Selene Verri Turkey recently conde...

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What Ukraine's Gas Crisis Has In Common With Gaza

Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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The trouble with Israel and Russia is not that their efforts will backfire, it's that they will likely achieve the exact opposite of their goals -- while both come off looking like unhinged bullies in the process.

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Letter From Beersheva

Murray Fromson | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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I am here in Beersheva -- on the "almost" frontlines of the conflict with Hamas -- to tell you the first thing to go when missiles start to fall nearby, is your diet.

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Mitchell Bard is Wrong On Israel

Ben Cohen | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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Hamas did not start this conflict. Here's an extensive time line of events, making clear that Israel broke the ceasefire, not Hamas.

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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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Gaza on YouTube: Film at 11!

Mona Gable | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

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In lieu of actual reporting, all you have to do is log on to the Israel Defense Forces' YouTube Channel and you can see images of Israel pummeling Gaza, and sit in on "the first ever" Twitter press conference.

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