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 …
Category: The Middle East
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Nov 19 2012
Later that night
Gaza’s 96 dead include farmers, water sellers and the girl next door By Amira Hass, Nov.20, 2012 1:00 AM Farmers on their way to sell vegetables in the marketplace, vendors of purified drinking water and people who just happened to live too close to the targets of Israeli air strikes were among the 34 …
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Nov 18 2012
It is that serious
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
For 64 years
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
To break the Palestinians
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
Our chances of survival
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 16 2012
Kook
We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action! By Tzvi Fishman, November 15th, 2012 The Pillar of Cloud, otherwise known as the Clouds of Glory, or Amud HaAnan, protected the Jewish People in the Wilderness, and the “Amud HaAnan” Operation which Tzahal has now undertaken is intended to protect our beleaguered citizens in the south. But …
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