harmonicminor.com » Military Occupation http://harmonicminor.com political commentary, cultural critique & philosophical meandering Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:29:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Pursuing Justice http://harmonicminor.com/2009/10/28/pursuing-justice/ http://harmonicminor.com/2009/10/28/pursuing-justice/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:34:46 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/?p=2527 The residents of Gaza are not waiting on the Goldstone Report to take action. The Defense Ministry and the Tel Aviv Prosecution have reportedly received some 1,500 notices of future civil lawsuits against the IDF over damage caused during Operation Cast Lead. (full article…)

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The report said Israel’s daily water consumption per capita was four times higher than that in the Palestinian territories. (full article…)

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]]> http://harmonicminor.com/2009/10/27/this-is-zionism-126/feed/ 0 “Took” http://harmonicminor.com/2009/10/26/took/ http://harmonicminor.com/2009/10/26/took/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:38:06 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/?p=2517 The Temple Mount, revered by Jews as the site of two ancient temples and by Muslims as the site of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aksa Mosque, has been the focus of simmering unrest recently. The compound sits in contested territory that Israel took from Jordan in the 1967 war. (full article…)

“Took” is a euphemism for “conquered” when it comes to coverage of Israel in the New York Times.

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