Iran Affairs: Israel is lying about Gaza and Hamas

Israel is lying about Gaza and Hamas

Henry Siegman writes in the Jan 29 2009 issue of the London Review of Books:

Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza...

Middle East peacemaking has been smothered in deceptive euphemisms, so let me state bluntly that each of these claims is a lie.

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Posted on January 27, 2009 at 05:01 PM | Permalink

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