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Israel News Conservatives Slam Israeli War Strategy
WASHINGTON — Staunchly pro-Israel conservatives with close ties to the Bush administration say that Jerusalem is hindering America’s global war on terror by failing to wage an all-out war to eliminate Hezbollah. In interviews with the Forward and in recently published opinion articles, conservatives slammed Israel’s reluctance to launch a comprehensive ground-war against the Lebanese…
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Israel News Drug Users Say No to Hezbollah, Call for Wartime Hashish Boycott
JERUSALEM — Young Israeli activists are fighting back against Hezbollah — with a boycott on smoking hash. Hashish, or oil resin from marijuana plants, is one of the primary recreational drugs available in Israel. It’s smoked in much the same way that marijuana is, and because the marijuana available in Israel is generally of a…
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Israel News Two Deaths Bring Crisis Home to U.S.
HAIFA — For American Jews, the deaths last week of two immigrants to Israel — a soldier and a kibbutznik — brought the conflict in Lebanon closer to home. Pennsylvania native Michael Levin, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed in clashes with Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Aita al-Shaab. Boston-area native…
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Israel News Pennsylvanians Mourn Hometown Soldier
NEWTOWN, Pa. — More than 1,200 men, women and children came together at Shir Ami, Bucks County Jewish Congregation in the Philadelphia suburbs on the evening of July 31 to demonstrate their support for the State of Israel. The evening’s most poignant moment came when a speaker recognized the presence of Mark and Harriet Levin,…
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Israel News Goals, Tactics Shift As Missiles Continue To Hit Israel
After the disaster came a revamped, harder-fisted approach to fighting. Those words describe what happened at the start of this week, when a Hezbollah missile fell among army reservists at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi near Israel’s northern tip, killing 12 men. But the same words could equally describe the way the war began almost four weeks…
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Israel News Palestinians Seek To Detach From Hezbollah
WASHINGTON — Despite expressing admiration for Hezbollah’s ability to strike Israel, Palestinians are working to distance themselves from the Lebanese militia in an effort to end the six-week Israeli onslaught against Gaza. Israeli forces have pounded Gaza with more than 200 air strikes and 12,000 artillery shells since June 25, when Palestinian militants with ties…
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Opinion Recovery and Hope
A great deal has been lost in this summer of fear and death, much of it irretrievably. Hundreds of innocent Israelis and Lebanese have lost their lives; thousands more have lost limbs, loved ones, homes, a livelihood. Millions of others around the world have lost something very nearly as precious: hope. As Oz Almog, the…
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Opinion In Praise of The Double Standard
There are real terrorists in our world, people who sow fear and death and exult in what they do. And Hezbollah is prominent, perhaps even preeminent, among them. It has killed Jews in Buenos Aires and U.S. Marines in Beirut and on and on and now, of course, it has launched rockets all over Israel’s…
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