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Clarification/Correction Regarding Audio Transmission Between Israeli Navy and Flotilla on 31 May 2010, Posted on 5 June 2010 — Clarification/Correction Regarding Audio Transmission Between Flotilla and Israeli Navy — 5 June 2010 — Yesterday evening on 4 June 2010 …
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Jack Shafer / The Huffington Post:
Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas caused more than a few eyebrows to perk up when video surfaced on Friday of her declaring that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Germany and Poland.
Matt Duss / Think Progress:
Thomas Has Apologized; When Will Huckabee? — Hearst reporter Helen Thomas has rightly received criticism for her offensive comment that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home [to] Poland and Germany and America.” Though Thomas quickly apologized …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What The Gaza Blockade Means — As I've noted before, in the eyes of its defenders the blockade of the Gaza Strip is a security measure aimed at denying rockets to Hamas, while in fact it's a comprehensive effort to collectively punish Gaza residents—a majority of whom are children …
Rep. Michele Bachmann / Big Government:
Helen Needs To Go! — Once again the liberal media has shown its true colors! The White House media dinosaur, also known as Helen Thomas has called on Jews to leave Israel and move back to Poland and Germany. This anti-Semitic sentiment has no place in our public discourse.
Andy Soltis / New York Post:
Imam unmosqued — The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week. — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global …
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Karin Laub / The Huffington Post:
Rachel Corrie, Aid Ship, Seized By Israel With No Resistance
Rachel Corrie, Aid Ship, Seized By Israel With No Resistance
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Robert Booth / Guardian:
Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range
Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range
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Raw Story, The Huffington Post, Confederate Yankee, War in Context, Promised Land, Solomonia, Times of London and Informed Comment
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Helen Thomas: Hey, sorry about that whole “Jews out of Palestine” thing
Helen Thomas: Hey, sorry about that whole “Jews out of Palestine” thing
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Jerusalem Post:
Navy boards, takes control of ‘Rachel Corrie’ off Gaza coast
Navy boards, takes control of ‘Rachel Corrie’ off Gaza coast
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Adrian Croft / Reuters:
Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times: report
Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times: report
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James Hider / Times of London:
Israeli troops board aid ship bound for Gaza
Israeli troops board aid ship bound for Gaza
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Washington Asks What to Do About Israel — WASHINGTON — Some topics are so inflammatory that they are never discussed without first inserting a number of caveats. And so, when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town's think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined …
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Haaretz:
Israel: We will not apologize to Turkey over Gaza flotilla deaths — Top official in Foreign Ministry says Turkish demand for an official apology was mainly an excuse to allow Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's to cut diplomatic ties with Israel.
Beth Reinhard / St. Petersburg Times:
Jim Greer's lawyer says Gov. Crist okayed diversion of GOP funds — Gov. Charlie Crist personally signed off on his former Republican party chairman's confidential fundraising role with the state party - according to Jim Greer's attorney, whose allegation contradicts the governor's statement that he …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Ostracizing The Losers — Unemployed need not apply — Ostracizing The Losers — The other day Brad Delong asked if we are seeing the creation of an underclass of long term unemployed. Here is some more evidence that we are: … There's more evidence that this is fairly widespread at the link.
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Doron Rosenblum / Haaretz:
Israel's commando complex — Recently an intelligence official actually called the absence of Palestinian terror a ‘propaganda problem.’ — It's impossible to understand or explain Israel's passive-aggressive responses to the “flotilla crisis” without reference to the ground from which its current leaders emerged.
Andrew Hough / Telegraph:
Queen's birthday gaffe leaves Hillary Clinton red faced — Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has been left red faced after mistakenly sending a birthday message to the Queen a week early. — An official statement from the US foreign policy chief paid tribute to the …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AN IMPOSSIBLE STANDARD TO MEET.... When it comes to the Sestak and Romanoff “stories,” some on the right and in the media have shifted gears a bit. Instead of arguing that intervention in primaries is illegal and/or unethical — it's obviously neither — they're left to argue that it's “politics as usual.”
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Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Conservative class on Founding Fathers' answers to current woes gains popularity — SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Earl Taylor has spent 31 years teaching that “the Founding Fathers have answers to nearly every problem we have in America today.” Only in recent months has he found so many eager students.
Wall Street Journal:
Employers on Strike — Congress keeps giving business reasons not to hire. — It's too bad we can't do the Census every year, because maybe the U.S. economy would then show some jobs growth. That quip was one of the rueful asides we heard yesterday as Americans learned that the economy created …
Janelle Brown / New York Times:
For Mickey Kaus, Winning Isn't the Point — “THIS is the throbbing heart of the Kaus for Senate campaign,” says Mickey Kaus, throwing open the door to his two-bedroom apartment in the Venice neighborhood here. Inside, there are no campaign posters to be seen, no army of clean-scrubbed interns …