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Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.

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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 05:32 PM

    - Xanthro

    Unlike you, I lived in Israel for many years and served in the IDF. I witnessed the racism, the state terrorism and the racism induced sadism at military check-points first hand. Even strict searches for weapons can be conducted without humiliating the searched. What does spitting on men in front of their wives and kids, forcing them to dance or calling them faggots and goat fuckers in front of friends and family have to do with a security check? Go paddle your Zionist/neoconpropagand elsewhere you asshole.

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