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Opinion Why Bibi Doesn’t Want To Invade Gaza
It’s a harsh fact of life in a tough neighborhood like Israel’s, so Israelis will tell you, that when somebody hits you, even a little, you have to hit back hard. Otherwise the blows will keep coming until they do real damage. It doesn’t matter how puny today’s foe might look. If you let it…
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Opinion Why Killing Kids on Gaza Beach Is Bad Hasbara
Palestinians rush wounded boy to safety after Israeli mortar killed four boys playing soccer on a Gaza beach. Getty Images (JTA) — Israel’s fight in the PR war just got that much harder. Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge last week, journalists and commentators — Jon Stewart included — have criticized Israel for the lopsided…
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Fast Forward Israel Tech Firms Score $1B in Investment Cash
Israeli high-tech firms raised $930 million in the second quarter of 2014, the sector’s strongest quarter in more than a decade. The figure, drawn from a survey by the Israeli Venture Capital Research Center and financial firm KMPG, was the highest quarterly figure since 2000 and an increase of 109 percent from one year ago….
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Life Israel’s ‘Men’s Only’ Bomb Shelters
Getty Images // There was gender mixing in this shelter in Tel Aviv, unlike one in Ashdod. While people all around Israel have spent the past two weeks scrambling for cover during rocket attacks, it seems that in some places, only men’s lives are considered worth protecting. In the Ashdod rabbinate building, the bomb shelter…
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Fast Forward Paris Police Hope To Ban Pro-Palestinian Rally
Paris police recommended that the city forbid pro-Palestinian activists from going ahead with plans to hold a massive anti-Israel protest. Police sources told the AFP news agency on Wednesday that the prefecture has made its position known to city officials over the planned demonstration Saturday outside the Barbas–Rochechouart metro station near the northern Gare du…
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Fast Forward With Life in Gaza ‘Living Death,’ Palestinians Say No to Ceasefire
Asked if a quick ceasefire with Israel might at least be welcome for saving lives, Abu Hashem simply scoffed. “We’re living death,” he said. The 50-year old father of two strolled in the shade of a street in Gaza city, unfazed by the periodic thud of bombings. “Israel has put us under siege for eight…
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Opinion 5 Ways To Turn Down the Social Media Flame
I’d like to say that social media doesn’t matter. Israel and its Palestinian counterparts are pursuing tactics, military and otherwise, and the battle for public opinion is only one among many. Despite what nearly everyone seems to think, what happens on our Facebook and Twitter feeds probably doesn’t matter that much. Except when it does….
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Fast Forward 4 Gaza Children Killed ‘Playing Soccer’ on Beach — Both SIdes Set Brief Truce
Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce requested by the United Nations. Palestinian militants fired more than 130 rockets into Israel on the ninth day of…
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