Jan 19 2010
Footnotes in Gaza
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Israeli warplanes have been targeting Gaza in recent days claiming retaliation for increasing rocket and mortar attacks, and raising fears of a second war on the heels of last year’s ferocious assault. While such news seems hardly out of the ordinary among the decades of occupation, two incidents in 1956 that left hundreds of Palestinian men dead, …
Israeli warplanes have been targeting Gaza in recent days claiming retaliation for increasing rocket and mortar attacks, and raising fears of a second war on the heels of last year’s ferocious assault. While such news seems hardly out of the ordinary among the decades of occupation, two incidents in 1956 that left hundreds of Palestinian men dead, …
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