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Interviewer to Colonel Lerner, IDF spokesman, “When did you stop beating your wife ?”

GATESTONE INSTITUTE by Richard Kemp August 3, 2014 Gaza’s Civilian Casualties: The Truth Is Very Different “So are you going after innocent civilians or is it incompetence Colonel Lerner?” asks the interviewer, her face contorted with a contempt apparently reserved … Continue reading

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What Would Hamas Do If It Could Do Whatever It Wanted?

THE ATLANTIC by Jeffrey Goldberg August 4, 2014 Understanding what the Muslim Brotherhood’s Gaza branch wants by studying its theology, strategy, and history. While Hamas is expert at getting innocent Palestinians killed, it has made clear that it would rather kill … Continue reading

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US-Qatar Alliance: Under Strain?

FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES by David Andrew Weinberg August 4, 2014 Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf petropower, is known to exert outsized influence in the Middle East. But between the war in Syria and the most recent conflict in … Continue reading

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Tokyo Pro-Israel Rally [CLICK FOR VIDEO]

 

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New York Times Slams Its Own Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photographer In Gaza

TABLET MAGAZINE by Staff August 1, 2014 Says Legendary Photojournalist Tyler Hicks is Bad at His Job If you have ever wondered why the New York Times photo coverage from Gaza has almost exclusively consisted of dead and bleeding Palestinian … Continue reading

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Obama Praises Muslims for Human Rights. Lost Opportunity for a Teachable Moment

CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS by Bill Donohue July 29, 2014 Bill Donohue comments on President Obama’s remarks last night at the White House honoring Eid-al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan: Last night the president said that Eid … Continue reading

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To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman

TABLET MAGAZINE by Chloe Valdary July 28, 2014 ‘You do not have the right to invoke my people’s struggle for your shoddy purposes’ The student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many college campuses, preaching a … Continue reading

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CNN Commentator terms Israel an apartheid state and Gaza occupier, engages Dershowitz [CLICK FOR VIDEO]

Alan Dershowitz engages Marc Lamont Hill, CNN Political Commentator. Hill, described on his Wikipedia entry as a “social justice activist” terms Israel an apartheid state and Gaza occupier because Israel has legally blockaded weapons materiel (though apparently not too successfully). … Continue reading

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Journalists Fearing Retaliation from Hamas tell of Gaza Horrors on Return Home

BREITBART by Paul MIller July 31, 2014 With the mainstream American and International Press desperately looking to find a moral equivalency between the U.S.-deemed terror organization Hamas and the State of Israel, media reports have been quick to point the … Continue reading

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Obama does not accept war for what it is

WASHINGTON POST by Eliot Cohen July 31, 2014 ……By 1864, Lincoln, Grant and Grant’s no-less-grim lieutenants William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan had concluded that their conflict had shifted to what historians call “the hard war.” They knew not only … Continue reading

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