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Zalman’s Story from the Holy Land and a rant against Margaret Wente
A column by Margaret Wente entitled “Ship of Useful Idiots” irritated me to such an extent that I felt compelled to respond to it rather than write about political events in Israel.
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Israeli War Crimes: From the USS Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla
On June 8, 1967, two squadrons of Israeli warplanes bombed, napalmed, and machine-gunned the US intelligence-gathering ship, USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 US sailors and wounding another 172. Almost to the day, 43 years later, on May 31, 2010, Israeli warships, helicopter gun ships and commandos assaulted a convoy of humanitarian ships carrying ten thousand tons of aid to Gaza in international waters.
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An Open Letter to the Israeli Jewish Public: Support the Gaza Flotilla!
If we were not Israeli Jews, if the nine ships bringing 800 peace-makers from 40 countries would be sailing with humanitarian aid to an imprisoned population of a million and a half to, say, Haiti, the flotilla now on its way to Gaza would be hailed as a monumental event, and the government of Israel would donate another 50 tons of food and materials and a brigade of army volunteers from the “rescue corps.”
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