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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 09:34 AM

    Same Old Same Old

    Let me relate an incident from the 1970's.

    Around 1976 or so William Kunstler visited the University of Toronto to attend a rally for the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). The SDS were the radical, left-wing student opposition to the Vietnam war.

    I attended.

    The warmup speakers were a series of (I presume) Jewish students who rallied the crowd with lines like "We support all liberation movements in the world, except the PLO." and "We oppose the U.S. and all it's allies, except Israel."

    Israeli particularism on display.

    I think these guys went on to become neocons.

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