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- Howard Dean is first.

By Phil Specht on Oct 24, 2009 9:32 AM EDT

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- Justice moves slowly but surely.

By Phil Specht on Oct 24, 2009 9:42 AM EDT

Heather Sharp
BBC News, Jerusalem
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Support is growing within Israel for the launch of an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during its offensive in Gaza last winter.

Last week the UN Human Right's Council's voted to back the controversial Goldstone report, which calls on Israel and Hamas to mount credible

 

International jurist Richard Goldstone's report recommends that if Israel and Hamas do not conduct credible investigations of their own within six months, the issue should be referred to the UN Security Council, which has the power to open a war crimes prosecution at the International Criminal Court

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8322584.stm

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- note to seashell

By Phil Specht on Oct 24, 2009 9:45 AM EDT

Hamas is also noted as having committed war crimes and puddle gave some of the story with her posts.

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- Hama' crimes pale in comparison to the Israeli atrocities

By Hu Jo on Oct 24, 2009 10:34 AM EDT

or to what our armed forces do every day in AFPAK. That doesn't make them OK, but it puts them in perspective.

Puddle denies any affinity to AIPAC, but the stories she quotes are all written by their "journalists"

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- Would have thought HuffPo would have passed muster, lol!

By puddle on Oct 24, 2009 2:57 PM EDT

Whereas . . . .

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- Spanked Wives Club?

By Subway Serenade on Oct 24, 2009 10:44 AM EDT

(AP) BURBANK, Calif. — What's President Barack Obama's most annoying habit?

"He beats me quite often," she said on NBC-TV's "The Jay Leno Show," appearing via satellite hookup from the White House. "That gets to be pretty annoying."

 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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- Doesn't look to *me* like Ms. Laub, whose AP article I quoted is associated with AIPAC. . . .

By puddle on Oct 24, 2009 3:39 PM EDT

 

Wake Up America!

Your Government is Hijacked by Zionism

Archive for September 23rd, 2009

Iran’s president rails against capitalism/Zionism

September 23rd, 2009 | Author: Patriot

Iran’s president rails against capitalism

By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 28 mins ago

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- I *don't* quote what I think are biased sources

By puddle on Oct 24, 2009 3:48 PM EDT

where both HuJo and sea do.  CounterPunch is very well known to be anti-Semetic, and sea feels she has to go so far as to quote Al Jazeera to back up *her* truth.

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- Political parties that kill their opponents

By puddle on Oct 24, 2009 3:49 PM EDT

are NOT legitimate.  What is so difficult to understand about that?

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