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Israeli newspaper Haaretz: Free speech or hypocrisy?

Written byJennifer Brea
Posted 17 January 2009 22:06 GMT

Parole de democrate posts a screenshot from the Haaretz website, a left-leaning Israeli newspaper, which features an editorial with the headline “The IDF has no mercy for the children of Gaza nursery schools” alongside an IDF advertisement urging readers to “Support the soldiers today”.  Parole thinks, “This attitude casts strong doubt on whether Israelis sincerely want peace” [Fr].

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