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“Hasbara” In the Real World Is hasbara “nothing more than propaganda?” (Hat tip: Daled Amos)

Rachel Corrie’s diary will be released to the public next week.

At last week’s closing arguments. France 2’s Charles Enderlin said that Israel’s Government Press Office

First-person impressions of life under the rocket barrages in Ashkelon and Sderot.

That’s what Philippe Karsenty told The Editors Weblog: According to Karsenty, a US website will

This from CNN: It was the fifth consecutive day in which Israeli forces launched air

Peter Beaumont of The Observer accuses Israel of deliberately obstructing Palestinians from getting medical care

Isn’t it disgusting that some of the people screaming loudest about Matan Vilnai‘s poor choice

AP managed to take the Snapped Shot blog out of action. Doesn’t Fair Use still

Haaretz quotes from an independent report by ballistics expert Jean-Claude Schlinger. Last week, Philippe Karsenty

8 Greater-Ashkelon communities brought into the Code Red alert system. 9 Ashkelon’s international “Sister Cities,”

YNet News resolves the confusion over the conflicting claims of credit for the Dimona suicide

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How do the editors at South Africa’s Independent explain this? Fierce Israeli Aggression Continues

Omri Keinan describes pursuing a degree at Sderot’s Sapir College while rockets rain: It happens

The closing arguments are over and our Take a Pen colleague, Endre Mozes is happy

Rocket scores direct hit on an Ashkelon home. No fatalities; 17 treated for shock. Ashkelon

CNN’s Ben Wedeman examines West Bank human rights abuse — by the Palestinian security forces.