Israel Ground Invasion

The CNN-NPR-NYT Middle East Conspiracy

Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

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Marty Kaplan

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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Howard Schweber

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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James Zogby

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

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Jim Wallis

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

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Mitchell Bard

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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Max Blumenthal

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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John Bruhns

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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Eric Margolis

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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Maxwell Kennedy

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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Jeffrey Feldman

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 Ukraine's Gas Crisis Has In Common With Gaza

Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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Lionel Beehner

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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Gaza: Fight at the End of the Tunnel?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Any ceasefire must include an ironclad commitment by Egypt to cooperate fully with Israel to shut Hamas' tunnel network once and for all whatever Hamas' political or military wings decide tomorrow in Cairo.

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Obama's Silence

Tom Hayden | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

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Tom Hayden

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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Greg Mitchell

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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Allan Gerson

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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Gail Vida Hamburg

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

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Robert Scheer

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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Deepak Chopra

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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Marjorie Cohn

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

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Andy Ostroy

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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Eric Lurio

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

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Patricia DeGennaro

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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Lola Adesioye

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

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Cenk Uygur

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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Palestinian Bloggers: 'I Might Stop Reporting Either If I Die Or I Flee My Home'

Global Voices Online | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

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In this roundup of blogposts from Gaza we hear from a teenager who just lost her friend and is scared for her own life, about a medical worker who was...

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