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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.
By Gary Kamiya

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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:16 PM

    @Renegade Iconoclast

    I never said that the Hamas Charter was irrelevant. What I did say (several times) was that neither the author of the article we are supposedly responding too nor any of the letters I've read today express any love for Hamas. Kamiya, in fact, is explicitly condemning (rightly in my opinion) of Hamas for being anti-Semitic and violent. Therefore, it is not necessary to rub it in our faces how crappy Hamas is. You can criticize Israel without automatically supporting its enemies.

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