Daily Archives: 01/06/2009

Wading through the sewage

You have no idea the garbage I’ve been wading through this past week and a half, especially since I started linking to CNN news articles and getting referrers from there. I just went through two days’ worth of anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, … Continue reading

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The War in Gaza Update 10.5

The latest round up of news and blog posts about the War in Gaza is now live and ready for your review. Update 10.5 includes a selection of articles from the MSM and blog posts from all sides of the … Continue reading

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Hamas using children as human shield

Take a look at this video. Now take a look at this one, which shows terrorists shooting mortars from a UN school in Gaza. The terrorists were shooting from the school that got hit today. It’s terrible that civilians were … Continue reading

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Barbarism in the Congo, ignored

Why are unintentional Palestinian civilian deaths so much more important than actual massacres that took place in Africa? Attackers wielding machetes hacked to death dozens of people at a church in remote eastern Congo, witnesses said Monday, and the Ugandan … Continue reading

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The NYT: Israel must make things easy for Obama

In Incursion into Gaza the editors of the NYT write: The longer the Israeli incursion, the more casualties mount (550 Palestinians and 5 Israelis have died so far); the more Hamas’s popularity grows among its supporters; the more moderate Arab … Continue reading

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The futility of the peace process

Two op-eds today make the point – in different ways – that the peace process, the holy grail of diplomacy, is a chimera. David Brooks writes in The confidence war: By trial and error, Israel is learning to keep an … Continue reading

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Cohen’s rectification

Two years ago during Israel’s war against Hezbollah, Richard Cohen wrote one of the most offensively stupid op-eds imaginable. He wrote that Israel was a mistake. I and others criticized his ahistorical vision. Today, Cohen has an op-ed that is … Continue reading

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The objective media—not

Once again, CNN shows its bias. Death toll rises as Israel encircles Gaza City That’s two headlines in a row that start with “Death toll rises.” If you’re coming here from the CNN link, take a look around to get … Continue reading

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The War in Gaza Update #10

Update #10 on the War in Gaza can be found here. It is filled with links to various news sources and blog posts that discuss the war in Gaza. It is a good way to get news and analysis about … Continue reading

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Where suicide bombers come from

An amazing article by Nic Robertson (CNN). Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence Finally we know where suicide bombers come from. The article describes the trauma that children of Gaza are undergoing these days. The children have seen terrible … Continue reading

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The Cheapest Blood

There is an ongoing discussion among my Jewish friends and I. Actually there are many ongoing discussions but for the purpose of this post we’ll focus on one. What is our role as a Jew. It is not so much … Continue reading

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