Tag Archives: Gaza War
Dehumanizing Palestinians
T-shirts worn by some Jewish soldiers mock the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including pregnant women and children. “1 shot, two kills” says one depicting a pregnant Palestinian woman in a sniper’s crosshairs. Apparently, the shirts came into fashion … Continue reading
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Gaza Airport: Then and Now
Opened a little over ten years ago by Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Gaza Airport was a “symbol of freedom”… Today, it lays in ruins — a monument of sorts to the ravages and futility of war. Perhaps they should … Continue reading
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City of Tunnels
What do you do when you live in a concentration camp? Dig tunnels, of course. Israeli propaganda refers to the network of underground tunnels only in connection with the smuggling of weapons by Hamas, but rarely is it noted in … Continue reading
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Gaza & the Warsaw Ghetto
From the YouTube video description: George Galloway condemns the “pathetic” “puppet” Arab leaders and compares the “ineffectual” but essential Palestinian resistance in Gaza to the Jewish resistance against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. “The Palestinians … Continue reading
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Gaza in Ruins
Aljazeera looks at the devastating aftermath of what Ezra Levant laughably describes as “Israel’s defensive war against Hamas terrorists and their missile attacks against Israeli civilians.” More about that later, after the clips. First of all, let me just say … Continue reading
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“A Product of Circumstance”
If true, the allegations made by the grieving Gazan father in this news report from AlJazeera are quite shocking. Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip were a “product of circumstance,” Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said today. “We had … Continue reading
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Mission (Temporarily) Accomplished
The LA Times reports: “In declaring a cease-fire Saturday in Gaza, Israel asserted that it had achieved its goals: hurting Hamas’ military wing, discouraging rocket fire into Israel and cutting the flow of smuggled arms into Gaza. But Israel had … Continue reading
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War on Gaza: Not as Advertised
British writer Patrick Seal (The Struggle for Syria, etc.) and Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi discuss the relative indifference (if not outright complicity) of neighboring Arab states in the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. In the second … Continue reading
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Joe the War Correspondent
Given the current state of the American economy, can it be long before Phil the Bricklayer, Rose the Teacher, Tom the Carpenter, Tito the Builder and so on are cynically recruited by Pajamas Media to join up with Joe Wurzelbacher … Continue reading
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Urgh
And this is helpful… HOW, exactly? While I can certainly appreciate the feeling of being rather underwhelmed or somewhat dissatisfied by the official equivocations issued by the LPC with regards to the Israeli attacks on Gaza, to suggest there’s a … Continue reading
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