Greenwald raises several good points about the debate, or more precisely, “non-debate” happening in the US over the Israeli attack on Gaza:
…severe disconnect I documented the other day between (a) American public opinion on U.S. policy towards Israel and (b) the consensus views expressed by America’s political leadership. 
…Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli offensive — by a 24-point [...]

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday January 2, 2009
As Israeli warplanes continue to bomb Gaza, attention is turning to the role of American-made weapons in the deadly attacks, which have now killed over 400 and wounded 2000, including many civilians.
CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr believes that Israel’s use of American weapons against civilians “is becoming [...]

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By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 1, 2009; A01
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 — The walls of the majestic Republican Palace in Baghdad’s Green Zone have been stripped bare. The vaults that secured American cash and classified documents are gone, and the cement blast walls that protected the front entrance were taken down this week. The [...]

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Antifascist Calling
When Afghan drug kingpin Haji Bashir Noorzai was arrested in New York in 2005, it set off a chain of events that continue to echo today.
A federal jury in Manhattan convicted Noorzai September 22, for his involvement in an international narcotics trafficking conspiracy that sold tens of millions of dollars of heroin on world [...]

By Wallace Shawn, The Nation
Posted on December 31, 2008, Printed on December 31, 2008
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Jews, historically, have been irrationally feared, hated and killed. Given that background, it’s not surprising that the irrationality which surrounded them for so long, the fire of irrationality in which they were almost extinguished, has jumped across and taken hold of [...]

Cenk Uygur
If you’re a conservative reading this, I know what you’re thinking - typical liberal. Part of the blame America first crowd. How could this war between the Israelis and Palestinians be America’s fault?
First, I love America. I chose to be an American. I think this is the greatest country on earth. And part of [...]

Firedoglake by Ian Welsh
One of the things I don’t understand about the debate over Israel and Hamas is what, exactly, people expect Palestinians to do.  I constantly read that Palestinians need to never use violence, and that non-violence will do the trick.  This may or may not be true, but it’s odd, because folks want [...]

IAF uses new US-supplied smart bomb
…The Israel Air Force used a new bunker-buster missile that it received recently from the United States in strikes
…GBU-39
…Israel received approval from Congress to purchase 1,000 units in September and defense officials said on Sunday that the first shipment had arrived earlier this month
…Tests conducted in the US have proven [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US-Japanese research team announced it had isolated three genes that explain why the 1918 Spanish flu, believed to be the deadliest infectious disease in history, was so lethal.
A far better question would be: Why were they looking?

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4 days ago
TBILISI (AFP) — Georgia and the United States will on January 4 sign a strategic partnership treaty, the Georgian foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a move that risks again provoking Russian wrath against Tbilisi.