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2008-12-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Truce ends as Israel launches air strike on Gaza
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Posted by Fred 2008-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 Green light go.
Posted by newc">newc  2008-12-21 01:29||   2008-12-21 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Truce ends as Israel launches air strike on Gaza

Not "Israel launched an airstrike in response to a kasam attack".
Not even "Israel launched an airstrike after truce ends".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-12-21 09:23||   2008-12-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah seriously, All those rocket attacks were what?
Posted by Hellfish 2008-12-21 10:38||   2008-12-21 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Justifiable response to the Occupation... er...Zionist aggression...er...the closure of the crossings in response to the rocket attacks!

/That's the ticket!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-12-21 10:51||   2008-12-21 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The orwellian, surreal inversion of "news" is nowhere better captured than right here. As others here have commented, what exactly started this round?

"It all started when I hit him back".

My favorite pithy rendition of this contemptible idiocy.
Posted by Verlaine 2008-12-21 12:39||   2008-12-21 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 this is where carpet bombing should become popular again
Posted by rabid whitetail 2008-12-21 14:04||   2008-12-21 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Exactly right, Verlaine. The hypocrisy of the international media and US policy has reached Kafkaesque dimensions.

If the Mexican army decided to start lobbing rockets into El Paso some fine morning, there wouldn't be two boards left nailed together or one brick standing on another in Ciudad Juarez by nightfall.
Yet Israel is expected to silently endure this provocation, and this expectation has become institutionalized.

On a brighter note, I predict that media and academic support for Paleo terrorism will start to decline as falling oil revenues reduce the supply of honoraria, gifts, fellowships, investment capital and other bribes currently flowing into our self-appointed cultural elites.
At $40 a barrel, the day might come when oil ticks can't even buy a British journalist, let alone an American one.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-12-21 17:19||   2008-12-21 17:19|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by Lemuel Jineng9947 2008-12-21 17:34||   2008-12-21 17:34|| Front Page Top

#9 No, Lemuel, even that won't be enough to buy a "journalist" if oil stays below $40/barrel.

Mods - cleanup idiot on aisle 8.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-12-21 18:42|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-12-21 18:42|| Front Page Top

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