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Why no outrage over Hamas's war crimes?

February 05, 2009 08:10

Do read Norm Geras' post on the worldwide condemnation of Israel's alleged war crimes, and the almost total silence over Hamas's.

As he concludes:

In the outpouring of hatred towards Israel today, it scarcely matters what part of it is impelled by a pre-existing hostility towards Jews as such and what part by a groundless feeling that the Jewish state is especially vicious among the nations of the world and to be obsessed about accordingly. Both are forms of anti-Semitism. The old poison is once again among us.

February 05, 2009 08:10

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