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Opinion How To Sell Americans on Israel’s Wars
Thinkstock Americans have endured endless hours of Gaza media coverage in the past month, from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer crawling through Hamas tunnels to live reports of rocket launches and airstrikes. In between, spokespersons for both sides flooded the airways, each trying to formulate an argument able of convincing American viewers, already overwhelmed by news from…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Judge Mary McGowan Davis Named to Gaza War Crimes Panel
The head of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council announced on Monday he had appointed a U.S. judge to join a panel set up to look into alleged war crimes during Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Israel has already dismissed the panel as a “kangaroo court” that is biased in advance against the Jewish state….
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Opinion 8-Point Guide to Criticizing Israel Productively
Thinkstock As an Israeli who lives in New York, I know that I can sometimes be unfair. On the one hand, I often get defensive when people criticize Israel. On the other, I can also get upset when people seem to blindly support Israel. Criticizing Israel is allowed, and even important for Israel’s wellbeing, but…
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Fast Forward 40 Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel for Gaza War
Some 40 Jewish Holocaust survivors and more than 200 direct descendents of survivors signed a public letter condemning Israel’s military operation in Gaza. “As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine,” reads…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Protests Curbed at British Cosmetics Shop
Police have halted daily anti-Israel protests in front of a cosmetics store in Manchester, England, that sells Israeli cosmetics. The protests at Kedem have been held since the start of Israel’s military operation in Gaza early last month. Greater Manchester Police have ordered the Pro-Palestinian protesters and Israel-supporting counter-protesters to a “designated protest area” nearby,…
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Fast Forward Gaza War Rages as Truce Talks Stall
Israeli air strikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and militants kept up their rocket fire on southern Israel on Monday, witnesses and officials said, as Egypt pressed on with efforts to broker a durable truce. Gazans said they received new recorded messages on mobile phones and landlines saying Israel would target…
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Fast Forward Time Retracts Israel Army Organ Harvest Claim
Time magazine retracted allegations that Israeli soldiers harvested and sold Palestinian organs. On Sunday, the magazine deleted the allegations from a two-minute video on its website about the Israel Defense Forces and added a correction, writing at the end, “Correction: The original version of this video cited a contested allegation in a 2009 Swedish newspaper…
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Fast Forward Israeli Driver Injured in West Bank Rock Attack
An Israeli driver was injured when his car overturned after being attacked by Palestinians throwing rocks in the West Bank. The driver, who was hit in the head in the Saturday night attack near Gush Etzion, was being treated at Hadassah Hospital for internal bleeding. His wife and baby were lightly injured. Also Saturday, a…
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