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Evidence Grows That Israel is Using White Phosphorus in Gaza

Greg Mitchell | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

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Today, at least two UN officials have flatly declared that three or more white phosphorous shells were part of the attack today that set a UN building and compound ablaze in Gaza City.

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Palestinian Authority Rep: End Gaza Crisis with Suicide Attacks

GroundReport | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

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Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news at the local level. One week ago, in an effort to s...

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Weighing Proportionality in Gaza

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

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The losses on both sides will be all in vain if the final outcome of the war does not substantially improve both the prospects for an eventual Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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The Challenge of Arab Journalists and Gaza

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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The absence of international journalists from the streets of Gaza allowed Israeli spokespersons to spin the rational of the war mostly unopposed.

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Olmert Ignoring Calls From Barak, Livni For Immediate Gaza Truce

Israel News | Posted 02.13.2009 | Home

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak is promoting a week-long "humanitarian cease-fire" in the Gaza Strip. In contrast, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert believes the...

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Israel, Gaza and Iran: Trapping Obama in Imagined Fault Lines

Trita Parsi | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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While there certainly is an underlying rivalry between Israel and Iran that has come to fuel many other otherwise unrelated conflicts in the region, not every war Israel fights is related to Iran.

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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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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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Ceasefire

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

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The first reason for a ceasefire now is to stop the killing. The second is to ensure that a year or two from now we are not all wishing that Hamas was still in charge.

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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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Can War Bring Peace?

David Suissa | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

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If Hamas bombs actually started falling on Dimona or Tel Aviv, would the "peace camp" still be harping against "military solutions" and calling for "immediate cease-fires?"

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Gaza Crisis Imperils Two-State Solution

nytimes.com | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 02.11.2009 | Home

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CAIRO -- With every image of the dead in Gaza inflaming people across the Arab world, Egyptian and Jordanian officials are worried that they see a fun...

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G-d/Allah Please Tell Us If Israel or Palestine is Right or Wrong?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

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Dear G-d/Allah, It's me Yvonne, are you there? As you know since December 27th, 2008, Hamas and Israel have been at war. Over 800 Palestinians and...

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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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Obama Camp 'Prepared To Talk To Hamas'

guardian.co.uk | Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington | Posted 02.09.2009 | Home

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The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's �doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organi...

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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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