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…  [more]

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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…  [more]

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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…  [more]

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To break the Palestinians

A Pillar Built on Sand

By 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…  [more]

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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,…  [more]

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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…  [more]

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Suffused with schadenfreude

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…  [more]

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