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Smug Jon Stewart — so funny, so wrong on Israel-Gaza. He helps low-information viewers stay that way.

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz July 16, 2014 It’s an asymmetrical war, all right. But America’s satirical news host has got it the wrong way around. That Jon Stewart, he’s sooooo funny. Just watch his amusing take on the current … Continue reading

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President Obama: Now is the time

JERUSALEM POST by Marvin Hier July 15, 2014 This fantasy idea that Abbas sold to the State Department and White House is absolutely dead even though it has not yet officially been buried. Now is the time for President Barack … Continue reading

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Undermining Israel’s right to self-defense: The UN pathology

JERUSALEM POST by Anne Bayefsky July 15, 2014 When the people of Israel exercise their inherent right of self-defense, they are forced to withstand an additional onslaught from today’s morally bankrupt United Nations. The 20th century job description of the … Continue reading

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Hamas, the dying shark, has no sponsor and is losing popular support; Israel should finish it off.

GLOBES by Dr Norman Bailey July 14, 2014 The current battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza resembles nothing so much as the violent thrashing-about of a mortally wounded shark leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Nothing remains … Continue reading

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Netanyahu expected to recommend acceptance of Egyptian ceasefire proposal. It’s Groundhog Day. Again.

JERUSALEM POST by Khaled Abu Toameh July 14, 2014 Security cabinet to meet at 7 a.m; Egyptian initiative calls for end of all “hostilities” from both sides, meeting in Cairo within 48 hours after quiet restored. The Egyptian government on … Continue reading

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The Gaza Rules. Israel, unlike Hamas, isn’t trying to kill civilians. It’s taking pains to spare them.

SLATE by William Saletan July 9, 2014 According to many critics, Israel is slaughtering civilians in Gaza. It’s “purposefully wiping out entire families,” says an Arab member of Israel’s parliament. It’s committing “genocide—the murder of entire families,” says Mahmoud Abbas, … Continue reading

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Why a ground incursion is needed

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Benjamin Anthony July 13, 2014 It was in this very month, in 2006, that I served as a heavy gunner in the Second Lebanon war. It was a difficult war. Troops went hungry and dehydrated. The … Continue reading

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This time, let Israel finish job

DETROIT NEWS by Nolan Finley July 13, 2014 The play-by-play for Israeli-Palestinian eruptions is so well-worn that it’s become formulaic. Hamas terrorists in Gaza find an excuse to escalate their daily rocket attacks against settlements and towns in Israel, forcing … Continue reading

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Egyptian TV Announcer Calls for Destruction of Hamas; Al-Ahram Columnist Thanks Netanyahu

ALGEMEINER by Dave Bender July 13, 2014 Officials and public figures in Egypt are beginning to call for Israel and Egypt to wipe out Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which some are calling the “armed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood … Continue reading

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Sunny With Light Missile Cover Here in Tel Aviv

PJ MEDIA by David P. Goldman July 10, 2014 Sunny with light missile cover in Tel Aviv this morning. I awoke to muffled thuds in the distance, Iron Dome shooting down Syrian-made missiles launched from Gaza, according to news reports. … Continue reading

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