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One thing you can say about the Republicans on Israel: They’re reliable. Faced with a threat, they will choose the sledgehammer over the scalpel.
There is no subtlety or nuance for them when it comes to Israel. It is not Israel right or wrong; it is Israel, right and right. The Holy Land is wholly innocent of misjudgment or overreach.
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Once the evangelical Christians went all in for Israel years ago, so did the GOP. The infatuation of the fundamentalist Christians with Israel awaiting the return of the Messiah (not to be confused with the restoration of Donald Trump in 2024) unnerves some Jews, but no matter.
Facebook has refused to remove a widely viewed attack ad that links Representative Ilhan Omar to Hamas, even after her aides told the tech giant that the message is inaccurate, hateful and threatened to subject her to death threats.
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When Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister for the second time in March 2009, it was not long after Israel had conducted three weeks of sustained air attacks on the enclave of Gaza. More than 1,100 Palestinians died in that campaign. About a dozen Israelis also perished, four from friendly fire, the rest from rockets coming from Gaza.
Operation Cast Lead, as it was called, was supposed to eliminate the offensive capabilities of Hamas, the Palestinian political faction that had taken over Gaza the year before. The Israeli operation also featured a ground offensive with thousands of troops and tanks. There was nothing surgical about the strikes or the intervention. At least half of the Palestinian casualties were estimated to be civilians. The U.N.-sponsored Goldstone report identified “actions amounting to war crimes” committed by both sides.
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Facebook won t take down an ad that Rep. Ilhan Omar s office says could lead to harassment and death threats
Cat Zakrzewski and Tony Romm, The Washington Post
May 20, 2021
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Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., smiles during an interview following a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, with the freshman class.Susan Walsh/AP
Facebook has refused to remove a widely viewed attack ad that links Rep. Ilhan Omar to Hamas, even after her aides told the tech giant that the message is inaccurate, hateful and threatened to subject her to death threats.