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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 06:35 AM

    Fascist regimes allow no foreign journalists in Gaza, or Zimbabwe.

    Israel has forbidden any foreign journalists into Gaza, so that they themselves could solely control the media campaign and propaganda, and not allow the truth of what's happening to be seen around the world. According to the UN spokesperson, there were no Hamas militants firing or sheltering in the UN compound that the Israelis so mercilessly attacked. Of course the Israelis would have you believe otherwise. There are, conveniently for Israel, no independent journalists to report the truth. And they refuse to entertain the possibility of having an independent inquiry into what happened - now there's a surprise, something to hide possibly?

    @cabdriver, ah, ok so she's really a doctor, posting about medical matters... wow, I feel sorry for her patients. And I did address the contents of her posts. "Much denseness" about covers the propagandist crap.

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