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Last update - 00:00 30/07/2006 Days of darkness By Gideon Levy Tags: Gideon Levy Click here for more articles by Gideon Levy In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything. The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying. The home front is cut in half: the north suffers and the center is serene. But both have been taken over by tones of jingoism, ruthlessness and vengeance, and the voices of extremism that previously characterized the camp's margins are now expressing its heart. The left has once again lost its way, wrapped in silence or "admitting mistakes." Israel is exposing a unified, nationalistic face. The devastation we are sowing in Lebanon doesn't touch anyone here and most of it is not even shown to Israelis. Those who want to know what Tyre looks like now have to turn to foreign channels - the BBC reporter brings chilling images from there, the likes of which won't be seen here. How can one not be shocked by the suffering of the other, at our hands, even when our north suffers? The death we are sowing at the same time, right now in Gaza, with close to 120 dead since the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, 27 last Wednesday alone, touches us even less. The hospitals in Gaza are full of burned children, but who cares? The darkness of the war in the north covers them, too. Advertisement Since we've grown accustomed to thinking collective punishment a legitimate weapon, it is no wonder no debate has sparked here over the cruel punishment of Lebanon for Hezbollah's actions. If it was okay in Nablus, why not Beirut? The only criticism being heard about this war is over tactics. Everyone is a general now and they are mostly pushing the IDF to deepen its activities. Commentators, ex-generals and politicians compete at raising the stakes with extreme proposals. Haim Ramon "doesn't understand" why there is still electricity in Baalbek; Eli Yishai proposes turning south Lebanon into a "sandbox"; Yoav Limor, a Channel 1 military correspondent, proposes an exhibition of Hezbollah corpses and the next day to conduct a parade of prisoners in their underwear, "to strengthen the home front's morale." It's not difficult to guess what we would think about an Arab TV station whose commentators would say something like that, but another few casualties or failures by the IDF, and Limor's proposal will be implemented. Is there any better sign of how we have lost our senses and our humanity? Chauvinism and an appetite for vengeance are raising their heads. If two weeks ago only lunatics such as Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke about "wiping out every village where a Katyusha is fired," now a senior officer in the IDF speaks that way in Yedioth Aharonoth's main headlines. Lebanese villages may not have been wiped out yet, but we have long since wiped out our own red lines. A bereaved father, Haim Avraham, whose son was kidnapped and killed by Hezbollah in October 2000, fires an artillery shell into Lebanon for the reporters. It's vengeance for his son. His image, embracing the decorated artillery shell is one of the most disgraceful images of this war. And it's only the first. A group of young girls also have their picture taken decorating IDF shells with slogans. Maariv, which has turned into the Fox News of Israel, fills its pages with chauvinist slogans reminiscent of particularly inferior propaganda machines, such as "Israel is strong" - which is indicative of weakness, actually - while a TV commentator calls for the bombing of a TV station. Lebanon, which has never fought Israel and has 40 daily newspapers, 42 colleges and universities and hundreds of different banks, is being destroyed by our planes and cannon and nobody is taking into account the amount of hatred we are sowing. In international public opinion, Israel has been turned into a monster, and that still hasn't been calculated into the debit column of this war. Israel is badly stained, a moral stain that can't be easily and quickly removed. And only we don't want to see it. The people want victory, and nobody knows what that is and what its price will be. The Zionist left has also been made irrelevant. As in every difficult test in the past - the two intifadas for example - this time too the left has failed just when its voice was so necessary as a counterweight to the stridency of the beating tom-toms of war. Why have a left if at every real test it joins the national chorus? Peace Now stands silently, so does Meretz, except for brave Zehava Gal-On. A few days of a war of choice and already Yehoshua Sobol is admitting he was wrong all along. Peace Now is suddenly an "infantile slogan" for him. His colleagues are silent and their silence is no less resounding. Only the extreme left makes its voice heard, but it is a voice nobody listens to. Long before this war is decided, it can already be stated that its spiraling cost will include the moral blackout that is surrounding and covering us all, threatening our existence and image no less than Hezbollah's Katyushas. 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Coalitional contention Labor demands chairmanship of key Knesset committee promised to Lieberman.   1.   Are we living in the same place? 11:36  |  Israel Israeli 30/07/06   2.   Days of darkness 11:54  |  Shirey Assaf 30/07/06   3.   Gideon Levy 11:59  |  paul 30/07/06   4.   To Israel 12:03  |  Moderate Lebanese 30/07/06   5.   `We have to pay for our Karma` 12:15  |  Roger Martin 30/07/06   6.   WE WILL NOT SURRENDER 12:17  |  indrajaya 30/07/06   7.   Not "and" so much as because 12:18  |  sh 30/07/06   8.   Gid`on, Listen to # 1 12:22  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   9.   Gideon Levy 13:04  |  noel 30/07/06   10.   morality 13:25  |  Michael J Cohen 30/07/06   11.   Roger Martin 13:30  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   12.   Roger Martin 13:32  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   13.   Ah Israel... 13:34  |  Radio Free Europe 30/07/06   14.   Gideon Levy 13:35  |  Mordechai 30/07/06   15.   Some sense 13:39  |  Agyatmitra 30/07/06   16.   Yes u are living in the same place... 13:41  |  Arno 30/07/06   17.   Gideon Levy 13:44  |  Dave 30/07/06   18.   Israel Israeli 13:54  |  Radio Free Europe 30/07/06   19.   Israel Israeli 13:55  |  Radio Free Europe 30/07/06   20.   Changing times will bring changing results 14:01  |  Natallie Durson 30/07/06   21.   Roger Martin #5 14:02  |  Ah 30/07/06   22.   A true prophet 14:07  |  Tom 30/07/06   23.   Reply to #11 14:10  |  Faith 30/07/06   24.   When will we learn? 14:10  |  Mohsen 30/07/06   25.   To Israel Israeli 14:11  |  Nouchka 30/07/06   26.   Question 14:12  |  Radio Free Europe 30/07/06   27.   R.F.Europe your pity would be more plausible if you had spoken up 14:13  |  PETER SM 30/07/06   28.   Brave Levy 14:17  |  Eva 30/07/06   29.   Levy`s mouth 14:31  |  wolf 30/07/06   30.   Israel - hope or despair 14:55  |  Philip Gellhorn 30/07/06   31.   The Beautiful Truth 15:01  |  Althea 30/07/06   32.   Faith from Australia #23 15:04  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   33.   Thank you Gideon 15:05  |  sacha 30/07/06   34.   darkness 15:07  |  JW 30/07/06   35.   EXCLUSIVELY TO GIDEON LEVY 15:10  |  Lebanese 30/07/06   36.   Philip Gellhorn 15:16  |  T A Sheppard 30/07/06   37.   Grt Analysis - We all support you! 15:18  |  David 30/07/06   38.   Gidoen the bravest leader in Isreal we salute you here 15:18  |  Haytham 30/07/06   39.   Qana 15:27  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   40.   Qana 15:27  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   41.   Qana 15:27  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   42.   "Innocent Lebanese" 15:38  |  Israel Israeli 30/07/06   43.   Moderate Lebanese. 15:39  |  West 30/07/06   44.   a candle in the darkness 15:41  |  ruud 30/07/06   45.   isaeli israel..shame on u 15:44  |  lebanon lebanon 30/07/06   46.   Reporters 15:49  |  robert 30/07/06   47.   UNJUST ACTS OF WAR 16:04  |  SIMON 30/07/06   48.   To ruud 16:05  |  dan 30/07/06   49.   gideon 16:06  |  victor 30/07/06   50.   Thank you for your courage 16:21  |  Ionica 30/07/06   51.   At last, someone who understands. 16:22  |  William 30/07/06   52.   Israel did not want this war 16:22  |  Alfred Brodner 30/07/06   53.   to Dan 16:35  |  jean 30/07/06   54.   The IDF Magician does it again 16:35  |  ROFL 30/07/06   55.   IF NO IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE - OLMERT & PERETZ IMMEDIATELY RESIGN 16:36  |  Smadar 30/07/06   56.   u made us ur "enemies" 16:41  |  lebanon lebanon 30/07/06   57.   Shame on you 16:41  |  Anna 30/07/06   58.   Triumpf des Willens 16:45  |  Leni Riefenstahl 30/07/06   59.   I respect you 16:47  |  Ahmad 30/07/06   60.   Insensitivity and Blindness 16:48  |  Apocalypse 30/07/06   61.   Sad there only one Gideon Levy 16:49  |  Jenna 30/07/06   62.   PhilipGellhorn #30 17:01  |  Avi Yerushalmi 30/07/06   63.   Jews are fed up with Israel`s crimes 17:02  |  John Levy 30/07/06   64.   Dan 17:06  |  Nouchka 30/07/06   65.   Jews must now speak out against Israel`s crimes 17:28  |  John Levy 30/07/06   66.   Lebanon is the aggressor, has to pay the price 17:30  |  Bob 30/07/06   67.   #42 Israel Israeli... 17:31  |  Sinalco 30/07/06   68.   Fighting against Hezbollah darkness 17:32  |  Gil Feldberg 30/07/06   69.   Peace and cooperation is the only lasting exit 17:33  |  Matias Ruiz 30/07/06   70.   Answer to John Levy 17:41  |  Simon 30/07/06   71.   Justification does not equal effectiveness 17:49  |  Richie 30/07/06   72.   To Nouchka 17:49  |  Dan 30/07/06   73.   RE: Days of Darkness 18:00  |  James Thomas 30/07/06   74.   To Moderate(Irresponsible) Lebanese 18:01  |  Honest Abe 30/07/06   75.   Gideon,a genuine Jew 18:06  |  Harlan Light 30/07/06   76.   Darkest side of mankind 00:13  |  liberal 31/07/06   77.   #48 Dan: exploiting holocaust 00:15  |  Bor de Wolf 31/07/06   78.   Gideon Levy: the naive or the traitor 00:16  |  i.e. 31/07/06   79.   It was all planed 00:17  |  Wiseplato 31/07/06   80.   To Jenna, West and Anna 00:22  |  Susan 31/07/06   81.   No stomach for this anymore 00:28  |  David 31/07/06   82.   The phony "war of no-choice" 00:30  |  Ben Gurion 31/07/06   83.   What the Left should do 00:32  |  Ben Gurion 31/07/06   84.   To Avi Yerushalmi #32 00:33  |  Faith 31/07/06   85.   The attacks in Qana 00:34  |  Joe Meras 31/07/06   86.   I fully endorse Gideon Levy`s Ideas 00:36  |  Neville Chamberlain 31/07/06   87.   Bravo! 00:37  |  Genna 31/07/06   88.   Lebanon Tragedy 00:38  |  VR 31/07/06   89.   `we have to pay for our Karma` 00:38  |  Roger Martin 31/07/06   90.   Levy does not go far enough - we must pay Hezbola compensation! 00:39  |  Amira Hass 31/07/06   91.   To Dan again 00:39  |  Nouchka 31/07/06   92.   Gideon Levy, get your head out of your rear end! 00:40  |  Yaakov K. 31/07/06   93.   "devastation doesn`t touch anyone here" 00:42  |  Wanna Bet 31/07/06   94.   Days of Darkness 00:43  |  Heinrich Hanspeter 31/07/06   95.   Thank you Mr. Levy 00:44  |  Simon 31/07/06   96.   Newswashing - sort of like pre-brainwashing 00:45  |  Mark Lincoln 31/07/06   97.   Hizbollah`s 2nd Victory 00:46  |  wessels 31/07/06   98.   Thanks mister Levy 00:46  |  B 31/07/06   99.   ISRAEL IS SOWING DARKNESS IN THE REGION 00:47  |  Dutch 31/07/06   100.   Antisemite BBC 00:49  |  Israeli guy 31/07/06   101.   The left would have lost WWII 00:51  |  Efox 31/07/06   102.   `Faith from Austarlia` 00:56  |  Roger Martin 31/07/06   103.   Is G Levy a traitor who subconciously wants Israel`s destruction? 00:57  |  Dudu 31/07/06   104.   Gideon, Move to Gaza 00:59  |  Efox 31/07/06   105.   days of darkness 01:04  |  john 31/07/06   106.   Gideon Levi vs. the evil triumvirate 01:05  |  Michael N 31/07/06   107.   re. John Levy who speaks for world Jewry 01:06  |  Efox 31/07/06   108.   DUDU`S RETORICAL QUESTION 01:10  |  Simon 31/07/06   109.   I am ashamed 01:13  |  Roi 31/07/06   110.   re. Bor de Wolf 01:13  |  Efox 31/07/06   111.   Horror! Horror! 01:15  |  J. J. 31/07/06   112.   People who post in all CAPITALS 01:18  |  Efox 31/07/06   113.   Gideon Levy is a brave man 01:20  |  Carsten Agger 31/07/06   114.   we never learn 01:20  |  AL 31/07/06   115.   REACTION ON ISRAELI GUY 01:24  |  Simon 31/07/06   116.   Courageous Gideon 01:24  |  Joseph Augustus 31/07/06   117.   John Levy 01:30  |  JJ 31/07/06   118.   G. Lewy 01:30  |  Kulukundis 31/07/06   119.   GIDEON, MOVE ON 01:30  |  Roger Martin 31/07/06   120.   hezbollah ALONE is responsible for all deaths on each side 01:32  |  eddie m 31/07/06   121.   to ruud in Amsterdam 01:33  |  H. 31/07/06   122.   kol hakavod gideon 01:33  |  victor 31/07/06   123.   # 59 Hisbollah in Lebanon 01:39  |  Abushanab 31/07/06   124.   Gideon Levy 01:41  |  Jim 31/07/06   125.   Efox 01:41  |  John 31/07/06   126.   Indifference of Israeli public 01:42  |  Roi 31/07/06   127.   re: we never learn 01:43  |  T A Sheppard 31/07/06   128.   Gideon Levy is a buffoon 01:44  |  Allan 31/07/06   129.   at last! words of wisdom 01:48  |  the equation 31/07/06   130.   Yaakov and ilk 01:56  |  John 31/07/06   131.   EFOX 01:58  |  T A Sheppard 31/07/06   132.   Days of Darkness 01:59  |  Michelle bas Yakov 31/07/06   133.   yes israelis are humans. are nt they?? 01:59  |  Grateful From Syria 31/07/06   134.   Dissapointment 02:01  |  Steve 31/07/06   135.   Gideon Levy and more 02:01  |  Roger Martin 31/07/06   136.   Human beings... 02:04  |  Chaya N.K: 31/07/06   137.   The utopian view of Gideon 02:08  |  Sal 31/07/06   138.   please tell me... 02:08  |  Oscar 31/07/06   139.   #111 Horror! Horror! 02:10  |  A Jewish Person 31/07/06   140.   antisemite BBC 02:13  |  Roger 31/07/06   141.   Human beings and their instincts - Ramba"m 02:14  |  Chaya N.K. 31/07/06   142.   Hi...Wake up!! 02:19  |  Gabi 31/07/06   143.   #110 Efox: acting like another state 02:32  |  Bor de Wolf 31/07/06   144.   Are you seeing the casualties in Lebanon 02:41  |  Tony 31/07/06   145.   # J.J. Horror Horror is antisemite 02:47  |  leroidavid 31/07/06   146.   Chauvinism is a child of paranoia 02:50  |  The Big Lebowsky 31/07/06   147.   Once again, kudos to Gideon Levy. 02:51  |  Solution=Peace 31/07/06   148.   Jim of Richmond is a liar 02:54  |  leroidavid 31/07/06   149.   criticism 03:02  |  myname 31/07/06   150.   beyond flags and religions 03:09  |  jav 31/07/06   151.   I Salut Levy! 03:19  |  Dawn 31/07/06   152.   ref : Antisemite BBC 03:21  |  ex-supporter 31/07/06   153.   Israel a terrorist state. What we think in Europe 03:28  |  jaumet 31/07/06   154.   My Jewish proud 03:32  |  Daniel Tzioni 31/07/06   155.   a lot of praise for gideon 03:32  |  myname 31/07/06   156.   to leroidavid: # J.J. Horror Horror is antisemit 03:42  |  Roi 31/07/06   157.   Abuse of Gideon Levy 03:45  |  Chaya N.K. 31/07/06   158.   To (dis)Honest Abe 03:47  |  jaumet 31/07/06   159.   Only in Israel, in times of great sorrow and death to its people, 03:50  |  Jorge 31/07/06   160.   levy speaks the truth 03:53  |  sarah, UK 31/07/06   161.   Never mind the names that people call will call you Gideon... 03:57  |  Marlene 31/07/06   162.   #s140,152 04:09  |  myname 31/07/06   163.   Israel, pack it in 04:18  |  Jon 31/07/06   164.   #65 Not only the Jews 04:28  |  hollingsworth 31/07/06   165.   Naomi Ragen responds to insane Gideon Levy 04:34  |  leroidavid 31/07/06   166.   #159 Jorge and others: democracy and free press 04:41  |  Bor de Wolf 31/07/06   167.   What happened to Amit Peretz 04:43  |  Daniel 31/07/06   168.   BBC support for Hezbollah 04:44  |  Peter 31/07/06   169.   Lebanese trars 04:51  |  Boruch 31/07/06   170.   RFE - tell me 04:51  |  Ellen 31/07/06   171.   destruction of beauty 04:54  |  alice 31/07/06   172.   Israel has become a nation 04:59  |  ME Spiegel 31/07/06   173.   Never seen anything like this war fever is Israel 05:07  |  mike goldberg 31/07/06   174.   Levy 05:11  |  T A Sheppard 31/07/06   175.   Israel: Do you really know what are you doing? 05:14  |  Jorge 31/07/06   176.   days of darkness 05:14  |  n.friedman 31/07/06   177.   Days of darkness 05:26  |  Michael Katz 31/07/06   178.   Person to person diplomacy 05:27  |  Lebanese-American 31/07/06   179.   The Darkness 05:28  |  Gwenifer Ann Whitmor 31/07/06   180.   peace? 05:32  |  Irina 31/07/06   181.   Gideon Levy - Traitor 05:33  |  Ruth Broch 31/07/06   182.   Avi Yerushalmi 05:41  |  john h. barkett 31/07/06   183.   Israel has become a nation, Pt II 05:41  |  ME Spiegel 31/07/06   184.   Days of Darkness 05:43  |  Jacob and Ellen Naor 31/07/06   185.   stop defiling humanity 05:53  |  klaus 31/07/06   186.   a MUST read for Levy et al 05:54  |  r. e. 31/07/06   187.   #171, mike goldberg, war fever in Israel 05:56  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 31/07/06   188.   Levy is right and wrong 05:57  |  NYC Guy 31/07/06   189.   Yoav Limor 05:59  |  T A Sheppard 31/07/06   190.   Gideon, you mitigate my shame 06:08  |  volov 31/07/06   191.   Bless you Gideon 06:10  |  Rose 31/07/06   192.   where is the outcry 06:16  |  roy 31/07/06   193.   to anna 06:25  |  judith 31/07/06   194.   Israel MUST say no to USA 06:35  |  Joe 31/07/06   195.   #174, Naor 06:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 31/07/06   196.   #174, Naor 06:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 31/07/06   197.   naomi regan 06:38  |  n.friedman 31/07/06   198.   Cipora, yes, Israel is being attacked 06:38  |  Mark Lincoln 31/07/06   199.   Gideon Levy 06:42  |  golan 31/07/06   200.   Message to be proud of 06:45  |  Not in my name 31/07/06   201.   Thank you Gideon 07:06  |  eio 31/07/06   202.   The world needs more wise people like Gideon 07:10  |  Janice 31/07/06   203.   We are living inthe same region! (a response to Israel Israeli) 07:10  |  Lebanon Leabnase 31/07/06   204.   GIDEON AND QANA 07:13  |  MARIA TORON 31/07/06   205.   truth, whole truth, & nothing but the truth 07:16  |  paul 31/07/06   206.   Two sides, yes. But who are them? 07:16  |  Horacio 31/07/06   207.   159. Only in Israel, in times of great sorrow and death to its 07:19  |  Ned 31/07/06   208.   Gideon Lewy 07:29  |  Kulukundis 31/07/06   209.   You provide hope 07:30  |  Michael 31/07/06   210.   War, shock and awe 07:31  |  Eli Wapniarski 31/07/06   211.   fickle support of Israel 07:31  |  Ned 31/07/06   212.   Gideon Levy 07:35  |  Joey 31/07/06   213.   Anti-Semitism 07:48  |  sick of Israel 31/07/06   214.   "innocent Lebanese" 07:49  |  jonathan 31/07/06   215.   The face of zionism 08:00  |  Billy Jack 31/07/06   216.   KARMA 08:04  |  Genghis Khan 31/07/06   217.   # 99, DUTCH, WOULD COME AGAIN AND AGAIN 08:12  |  indrajaya 31/07/06   218.   Dear "sick of Israel" 08:25  |  response 31/07/06   219.   Bomb Bashar al Assad for a change 08:35  |  Wishful thinker 31/07/06   220.   sick sight 08:45  |  Ben 31/07/06   221.   The Al-Jazeera Angle 09:07  |  Dan 31/07/06   222.   #200, Genghis Khan 09:13  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 31/07/06   223.   #200, Genghis Khan 09:13  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 31/07/06   224.   Days of darkness 09:18  |  Paula Abrams-Hourani 31/07/06   225.   Good for you and all of us 09:18  |  H Brown 31/07/06   226.   Nice to see that some of Israelis have still common sense 09:33  |  Emre 31/07/06   227.   #12 09:52  |  Edward 31/07/06   228.   Gideon Levy: the only Israeli with feeling 09:56  |  another Levy 31/07/06   229.   A war of existence Israel must fight 10:13  |  Ben Uziel 31/07/06   230.   Why doesnt Hezbullah stop unilaterally? 10:45  |  watcher 31/07/06   231.   Imams are famous for preaching against Israel 10:46  |  Watcher 31/07/06   232.   to Apocalypse 10:48  |  Anna 31/07/06   233.   Gideon Levy 10:52  |  Murdoch 31/07/06   234.   Nouchka-# 25 11:03  |  Palestinian 31/07/06   235.   Praise Levy`s and Mijali`s brave civil dissent 11:04  |  Louise Bethlehem 31/07/06   236.   the only enlighted voice in an ocean of ignorance 11:36  |  michael 31/07/06   237.   days of darkness 11:37  |  k.herzallah 31/07/06   238.   answer to 229 11:40  |  Bruxelles 31/07/06   239.   NEWS FLASH: Haim Ramon is working for Hamas (and/or Hisbollah) 11:51  |  Used to be a jew 31/07/06   240.   why did israel attack 12:13  |  JL, pq 31/07/06   241.   century of darkness 13:19  |  mark m 31/07/06   242.   The Grapes of Wrath 13:19  |  Stardust 31/07/06   243.   If we have few men like Gideon 13:30  |  Ton 31/07/06   244.   Days of darkness 13:35  |  Hicham Bazzi 31/07/06   245.   # 228 Another "Levy" 14:35  |  Boutros 31/07/06   246.   Bob #66 14:56  |  dak 31/07/06   247.   wake up and smell the coffee 15:08  |  Avner 31/07/06   248.   To Paul #3 15:11  |  Ivan Avery Frey 31/07/06   249.   are we living in the same country 15:14  |  real 31/07/06   250.   Incredible stupidity. 15:14  |  Bobalot 31/07/06   251.   More Stupidity and an Incredible feat by Isreal. 15:59  |  Bobalot 31/07/06   252.   good reading 17:29  |  Gybor 31/07/06   253.   Bobalot 17:55  |  dak 31/07/06   254.   Yes, you are dreaming 18:51  |  Mohammed Alwan 31/07/06   255.   Thoughts from lebanon 20:09  |  epsilon 31/07/06   256.   The Phoenix 22:52  |  Just a Lebanese 31/07/06   257.   re: # 247 Stardust 23:08  |  ned 31/07/06   258.   #188 wipe Israel off the map 23:21  |  hollingsworth 31/07/06   259.   Thruth mostly hurts* 23:30  |  Frieda 31/07/06   260.   Days of darkness 23:52  |  tom 31/07/06   261.   THE FATE OF A NATION 03:52  |  DR.X 01/08/06   262.   82 produced Hezbollah, 06 will produce? 04:05  |  Ihtishaam Qazi 01/08/06   263.   Days of Darkness 09:52  |  Gary Cohen 01/08/06   264.   Peace to Gideon 11:56  |  Pablo 01/08/06   265.   Days of darkness 14:43  |  Guido 01/08/06   266.   Days of Darkness 14:54  |  Ehud Maarif 01/08/06   267.   Is anyone willing to change? 14:56  |  dragan 01/08/06   268.   ..It was all planned 17:23  |  Wilhelm Tell 01/08/06   269.   Gideon Levy 18:30  |  Asif 01/08/06   270.   Point of view 22:09  |  Sharra 01/08/06   271.   The Buried 06:51  |  Sheree 02/08/06   272.   Thank you 09:53  |  Svetlana Krikoun 02/08/06   273.   Painful show 13:14  |  Olivier 02/08/06   274.   Thank you Gideon 13:54  |  Abdul-Rahman 02/08/06   275.   Wowzers!! It`s War B*tch! 04:50  |  Nousa 03/08/06   276.   brutal 18:39  |  Dierre 03/08/06   277.   Re: Are we living in the Same place? 04:42  |  Abdel 05/08/06   278.   What Israel doesn`t tell you 21:28  |  Abdel 05/08/06   279.   You dear saying the obvious 00:57  |  Mel 08/08/06   280.   Video 05:39  |  Wanda Woodward 09/08/06   281.   response to NOEL 11:51  |  Brana 14/08/06   282.   israel has the most genocidal public 10:13  |  Golara 04/09/06   283.   Moderate lebanese 04:47  |  Romeo 07/10/06   284.   Roger Martin of NZ 05:01  |  Romeo 07/10/06   285.   We will not surrender 05:11  |  Romeo 07/10/06   286.   days of darkness by a traitor 17:00  |  romeo 07/10/06   287.   Promised Land 13:12  |  romel 17/08/07   288.   Gideon Levy articles 20:53  |  Stephen Lendman 14/12/07   289.   diplomacy 06:18  |  David Brown 24/03/09

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