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Week of January 11, 2009 - January 17, 2009

Israel: United, Except When It's Not


According to our stellar American media, Israelis are united behind their country's military actions in Gaza.

New York Times:

JERUSALEM -- To Israel's critics abroad, the picture could not be clearer: Israel's war in Gaza is a wildly disproportionate response to the rockets of Hamas, causing untold human suffering and bombing an already isolated and impoverished population into the Stone Age, and it must be stopped.

Yet here in Israel very few, at least among the Jewish population, see it that way.

It's very east to make generalities like that when one doesn't include Israeli dissidents, who are jailed when protesting the war against the Palestinian people:

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Allison Kilkenny co-hosts Citizen Radio, the alternative political radio show alongside her partner, comic Jamie Kilstein. She is a contributing writer to Huffington Post, Alternet.org, The Nation, the Beast, Counterpunch.org, and 236.com. She is also a regular guest on SIRIUS radio. She doesn’t care if you’re offended by anything she has written. Allison's blog is at: http://allisonkilkenny.wordpress.com Citizen Radio's fan page is available on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69102745571 Allison can be reached on Facebook or Twitter.

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