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America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 03:13 PM

    humanitarian pause

    According to the NYT article ondelette linked to earlier

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/middleeast/09mideast.html?pagewanted=print

    on Thursday Gazan authorities reported 758 people dead, including 257 children and 56 women. Israel says it has killed at least 130 Hamas fighters. That’s some precision! Nearly twice as many children as Hamas fighters.

    Israel has agreed to allow a three hour “lull” or “humanitarian pause” every other day…so that Gazans can seek medical help and buy supplies.

    How ludicrous is that? I just can’t think of anything to say.

    —harpie Read harpie's other letters

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