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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 04:38 PM

    Thank you!

    Thank you for your thoughts. I would so much love to see and read this kind of simple wisdom and common sense in the mainstream American media! Unfortunately, they have proved once again how bankrupt they actually are, morally, intellectually and otherwise historically. They kept their mouths shut during the incredible, unlawful invasion of Iraq and the subsequent annihilation of America as a moral force in the world, and they continue now - they keep their mouths shut again. I am so disappointed with the mainstream American media, supposedly a counter power in Democracy, that I see the situation as even worse than in a totalitarian regime with no freedom of the press - then at least we know for sure there is no press! I have never seen so impotent, so absent and so complacent, self-righteous Fourth power! What a shame. Thank you, sir, for your wise words and for telling the truth.

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