Nov 19 2012
Israel’s ‘right to self-defense’ – a tremendous propaganda victory By Amira Hass, Nov.19, 2012 4:06 AM One of Israel’s tremendous propaganda victories is that it has been accepted as a victim of the Palestinians, both in the view of the Israeli public and that of Western leaders who hasten to speak of Israel’s right …
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Nov 18 2012
Time to remind ourselves of Britain’s unhelpful legacy to the Palestinians By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 18 November 2012 You’ve seen the pictures, read about the bloodshed, heard the accusations. The military head of Hamas was assassinated by Israel in Gaza. Rockets fired in retaliation killed three Israelis and Israel then went into overkill. …
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Nov 18 2012
As the ‘gates of hell’ open once more in the Middle East, these old journalistic clichés won’t do By Robert Fisk, Sunday 18 November 2012 Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root out Palestinian terror” – which it has been claiming to do, unsuccessfully, for 64 years …
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Nov 17 2012
A Pillar Built on Sand By John Mearsheimer, 16 November 2012 In response to a recent upsurge in tit for tat strikes between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel decided to ratchet up the violence even further by assassinating Hamas’s military chief, Ahmad Jabari. Hamas, which had been playing a minor role in …
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Nov 16 2012
Life goes on in Gaza, where no place is safe By Samah Sabawi, November 17, 2012 12:00AM A bomb falls close to our neighbourhood in Gaza; I check Facebook to see if everyone has survived. A young cousin, Nihal, writes in her status: “Shoot, I should have had my nap earlier today, didn’t know it …
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Nov 14 2012
Reputation, Reputation, Reputation By Maureen Dowd, November 13, 2012 As Lyndon Johnson said, the two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex. Macbeth kills a king out of envy. Egged on by an envious Iago, Othello smothers his wife out of a crazed fear of her having sex with his lieutenant. Now …
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Nov 13 2012
Mr. President, remember me? It’s Bill Ayers By Bill Ayers, Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 02:00 PM CST I have a backpack filled to overflowing with grievance and discontent, dissent and demand, as well as wild hopes and radical aspirations: end the wars and the drone strikes, slash the pentagon, fight for universal health care, …
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