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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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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:42 AM

    I just wanna interject something as an Arab and an American citizen...

    The Jewish people's sad history in Europe from the Spanish Inquisition, to the pogroms of the Russian Czars, to the mass killings of Jews by the German Nazis, hold in common a culture of overt hatred no where comparable to that of the Middle East's history with Jewish communities from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.

    If you all wish to go on back and forth pouring salt into old wounds, or invoking ancient guilts, go ahead, I wonder, will any of you on any side ever profit productively from any of it?

    Continue the quarrel...you are all of you a sinking ship of fools.

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