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More Middle East news….

August 19th, 2006 · No Comments

From the The Wall Street Journal:
1:15 p.m.: Israeli soldiers returning from the war in Lebanon say the army was poorly prepared, slow to rescue injured comrades and suffered from a lack of supplies so dire soldiers had to drink water from the canteens of dead enemies. Israeli newspapers quoted disgruntled reservists as saying they had [...]

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Morality is not on our side

August 19th, 2006 · No Comments

From Haa’retz:
Let’s start with a few facts. We invaded a sovereign state, and occupied its capital in 1982. In the process of this occupation, we dropped several tons of bombs from the air, ground and sea, while wounding and killing thousands of civilians. Approximately 14,000 civilians were killed between June and September of 1982, according [...]

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