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• • 25 Feb 09
  • 5:58 pm

  Talk to the hand. It certainly is clear, based on the advertising that has been sold through Google to head this column, that Zionisist know what an anti-Palestine column Brociner has written. If you wait for a while, you'll see an add for the "Libi Fund," which is dedicated to strengthening the IDF, per its own website. The fund-raising plea features this quote from Yitzak Rabin: "Our soldiers prevail not by the strength of their weapons but by their sense of mission; by their consciousness of the justness of their cause, by a deep love for their country, and by their …

  Posted to Israel, Gaza and the Left

• • 26 Feb 09
  • 6:46 pm

  Brociner wants us to think that criticism of Zionist tactics is confined to "progressive" websites such as Alternet. However, news stories that state the facts about Zionist actions against the rightful residents of Palestinian lands do appear in publications that have no particular bias. Here's a link to a story by IPS (Inter Press News Services) writer Mel Frykberg. It's a story stating merely the facts. Try as you might, there is no way to twist these facts into a rationalization for IDF's actions. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45896

  Posted to Israel, Gaza and the Left

• • 03 Aug 08
  • 2:59 pm

  Kate Sheppard discusses the recent and pervasive rumor that feminists are so disappointed that Hilary is not the candidate, that they will somehow decide that voting for McCain will be an appropriate protest. She goes on to cite many sources that say this rumor is not true, but she does not mention the real reason that this rumor is gaining so much traction. Make no mistake, the Republicans plan to steal this presidential election, just as they stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. They cannot afford to lose the election; too much is a stake for them. One of the ways …

  Posted to McSexist