Nov 27 2012
Dear Friends: Reproduced below, after my personal comments, is a movie review by the much-admired critic A. O. Scott that appeared in the Sunday New York Times this past week. Featured in the write-up is a man whom I was once privileged to know and call a friend — Avraham (“Abe”) Shalom, a former …
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Nov 20 2012
Israel demands our support because it fights its ‘war against terrorists’ in our name By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 20 November 2012 Enough is enough. Now we have even “National Infrastructure” Minister Uzi Landau – one of my favourite dogsbodies in the Israeli government – talking about “collateral damage” and the justification for bombing Hamas’s …
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Nov 20 2012
Do pictures of children killed in Gaza force us to face a gruesome reality? By Giles Fraser, Tuesday 20 November 2012 08.20 EST Let’s start slowly, carefully, with what can be said. Photographs show four small children dead on the cold aluminium surface of the morgue. They are positioned in such a way that …
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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 19 2012
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
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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