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Gaza Q&A: Palestinians answer

“I don’t mind if Gazans continue producing babies, but they will have to move somewhere else.” Palestinians speak. Continue reading

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Chas Freeman and preemptive cringe

Charles “Chas” Freeman, the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia who is slated to become chair of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), is being praised by his supporters as a brilliantly “contrarian” analyst. But has anyone gone back to examine the … Continue reading

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Gaza errors (or lies)

Henry Siegman, who must spend every waking hour hating Israel, has a piece in the London Review of Books, which is never complete without an Israel-bashing tirade. This one is called simply “Israel’s Lies.” Siegman spends a lot of time … Continue reading

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Did Hamas really win in Gaza?

Martin Kramer posted this comment in the thread “Did Hamas Really Win in Gaza?” at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH). One way to approach this question is to ask whether Hamas has achieved the objectives for which it escalated … Continue reading

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Civilians should be protected, unless…

In going back over earlier Hamas materials to which I’ve linked in years past, I rediscovered this August 2001 exchange between an interviewer and the late Hamas founder and leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin (whose image is the background to this … Continue reading

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