Poland Gets 1st Openly Gay Rabbi - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
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How some military rabbis are trying to radicalize Israeli soldiers. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
I hate to break it to you, but the people who think that God's will is revealed in scripture are known as "religious." Those who do not think so must try to find another name for themselves.
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Israeli army rabbis criticized for stance on Gaza assault - Los Angeles Times
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Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009 - Haaretz - Israel News
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Ben White: The real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
It is quite likely that you have not heard of the most important developments this week in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the West Bank, while it has been "occupation as normal", there have been some events that together should be overshadowing Gaza, Gilad Shalit and Avigdor Lieberman.
First, there have been a large number of Israeli raids on Palestinian villages, with dozens of Palestinians abducted. These kinds of raids are, of course, commonplace for the occupied West Bank, but in recent days it appears the Israeli military has targeted sites of particularly strong Palestinian civil resistance to the separation wall.
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U.S. role in Gaza invasion | Salon News
It's well known that the U.S. supplies the Israelis with much of their military hardware. Over the past few decades, the U.S. has provided about $53 billion in military aid to Israel. What's not well known is that since 2004, U.S. taxpayers have paid to supply over 500 million gallons of refined oil products -- worth about $1.1 billion –- to the Israeli military. While a handful of countries get motor fuel from the U.S., they receive only a fraction of the fuel that Israel does -- fuel now being used by Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and tanks to battle Hamas.
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And there lie the bodies - Haaretz - Israel News
Gideon Levy gives Israel a blood pipeline test.
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Proportionality And Terror
Andrew Sullivan applies the just war theory to the Israeli assault on Gaza.
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Aliens
Sullivan says: The inability on both sides to see Jews and Arabs as equally and indistinguishably human before they are Jews and Arabs is at the heart of the problem. In a contest between Israel's flawed democracy and Hamas's theological murderousness, I see no moral equivalence. But Israelis and Arabs demand exactly the same respect as human beings, every single one, including the "worst of the worst". A refusal to grapple with the moral costs of this conflict, and a glib dismissal of the terrible human carnage now being inflicted by Israel (and paid for in part by Americans) is a sign of moral unseriousness. But it is the same mindset that can authorize the torture of human beings and see it as "coercive interrogation" only when Americans do it to Muslims.
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Amazon.com: Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror (Vintage): Jeffrey Goldberg: Books
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1948 - A History of the First Arab-Israeli War - Benny Morris - Book Review - New York Times
A book review: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
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