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By Vic Rosenthal

They’re at it again:

Hundreds of Fatah supporters clamored for revenge against Hamas on Saturday, during the funeral of a Fatah loyalist killed in a new round of infighting that left four people dead since the Hamas-Fatah coalition government was formed a week ago.

The formation of the coalition government was to have put an end to a bloody Hamas-Fatah power struggle that killed more than 140 people in the past year. However, four people have been killed in Gaza since the new coalition was sworn in.

Among the dead was a 4-year-old boy caught in crossfire Thursday.

On Thursday, a Gaza man was killed during a showdown between his Fatah-affiliated family and members of a Hamas militia, while on Wednesday a 24-year-old Fatah man was killed in an armed clash between Fatah and Hamas supporters.– Jerusalem Post

This points to an answer to the question of why it hasn’t been possible to get a peace agreement (or one that will stick, anyway) between Israel and the Palestinians.

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By Vic Rosenthal

If the US or Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it is expected to be soon:

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An American middle school student had to write a paper on the subject “Who is at Fault in the Middle East”? One can imagine that he would have been somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of material available, and the widely varying points of view. Our contributor Naomi Leitner gave him her take. It’s long for a blog post, but short for a history of the Jewish state! Ms. Leitner is an attorney in Israel.

Dear “RedFox”:

A friend of mine passed your e-mail along to me and I’ll try to answer, in the way that I and many Israelis see our history.

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Isi Leibler, chair of the Diaspora-Israel Relations Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), writes:

In view of the fact that demonstrating hatred of Israel has become a key prerequisite for eligibility to membership of the “progressive” camp, one finds Jews at the forefront of the vicious campaigns demonizing Israel in virtually every country.

Yet to accuse these renegades of indulging in self-hatred is considered as a cardinal sin in many circles. It is thus legitimate for Jews to defame Israel as an “apartheid state,” accuse their kinsmen of behaving like Nazis, apply double-standards to Israeli behavior, accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing, war crimes, even genocide; it’s even acceptable to call for dismantling Israel and replacing it with a binational state, or to support the “right of return” for Arab refugees – all in the name of communal tolerance.

Yet to stand up and brand such views as extremist is deemed an expression of “Zionist McCarthyism.”

It is a pathetic reflection of our times that people such as Tony Judt, Marc Ellis, Norman Finkelstein, Jacqueline Rose and Tony Kushner are considered martyrs, and tolerance of their malicious efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state has become confused with freedom of expression.

What a red herring. Insisting that Jewish demonizers of Israel comprise an extremist fringe and speak only for themselves does not represent suppression of free speech. — Jews against Zion (Jerusalem Post)

Although there have always been anti-Zionist Jews, the present circumstance of so many high-profile Jewish intellectuals giving more than just aid and comfort to those who not only want there to not be a Jewish state, but who also wish to kill the Jews, is unprecedented.

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