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The Decade, in 7 Minutes

Newsweek has boiled down the the first decade of this millennium into a seven minute... more

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Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies

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John McCain wants Barack Obama to pardon Jack Johnson the famous boxer

Sen. John McCain pressed President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack... more

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Losing Net Neutrality: What The Worse Case Scenario Looks Like

As we've previously discussed, Senator John McCain hates him some "net neutrality."... more

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Jon Stewart Slams Politicians Against Net Neutrality

Jon Stewart lampooned politicians who have come out against an open Internet,... more

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Jon Stewart Speaks On Net Neutrality

This whole issue is driving me insane. I have never seen so much doublespeak in my... more

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Men who voted McCain saw testosterone drop: study

Men who voted for Republican John McCain in last year's US presidential election saw... more

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McCain introduces bill to block Net neutrality

Raw Story-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that... more

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McCain Battles Google, Twitter, eBay Coalition Over Net Neutrality

Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband... more

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GOP goes digital

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McCain: Obama-Pharma Deal ‘UNSAVORY’

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Wednesday called a deal between President Barack... more

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McCain Warns Obama Against “Half Measures" In Afghanistan

President Obama told Congressional leaders that he would not substantially reduce... more

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The Muppets Take on Health Care

Statler and Waldorf weigh in on the issues.

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Glenn Beck: Obama better for Country than McCain would have been

Glenn Beck thinks President Obama is better for the country than John McCain would... more

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McCain Denounces Torture

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McCain Booed For Saying Obama Respects The Constitution

Senator John McCain, (R-Ariz.) found himself drowned out by boos and hisses on Tuesday... more

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Opposition Grows Against Obama's Health Care Reforms

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VIDEO: Israeli Zionist terrorists Massacre Palestinians at Deir Yassin-254 slaughtered

Eye witness accounts in this video of the massacre of hundreds of innocent Palestinians-including women and children.
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Early in the morning of Friday, April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun, headed by Menachem Begin, and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. It was several weeks before the end of the British Mandate. The village lay outside of the area that the United Nations recommended be included in a future Jewish State. Deir Yassin had a peaceful reputation and was even said by a Jewish newspaper to have driven out some Arab militants. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and one plan, kept secret until years afterwards, called for it to be destroyed and the residents evacuated to make way for a small airfield that would supply the beleaguered Jewish residents of Jerusalem.

By noon over 100 people, half of them women and children, had been systematically murdered. Four commandos died at the hands of resisting Palestinians using old Mausers and muskets. Twenty-five male villagers were loaded into trucks, paraded through the Zakhron Yosef quarter in Jerusalem, and then taken to a stone quarry along the road between Givat Shaul and Deir Yassin and shot to death. The remaining residents were driven to Arab East Jerusalem.

That evening the Irgunists and the Sternists escorted a party of foreign correspondents to a house at Givat Shaul, a nearby Jewish settlement founded in 1906. Over tea and cookies they amplified the details of the operation and justified it, saying Deir Yassin had become a concentration point for Arabs, including Syrians and Iraqis, planning to attack the western suburbs of Jerusalem. They said that 25 members of the Haganah militia had reinforced the attack and claimed that an Arabic-speaking Jew had warned the villagers over a loudspeaker from an armored car. This was duly reported in The New York Times on April 10.

A final body count of 254 was reported by The New York Times on April 13, a day after they were finally buried. By then the leaders of the Haganah had distanced themselves from having participated in the attack and issued a statement denouncing the dissidents of Irgun and the Stern Gang, just as they had after the attack on the King David Hotel in July 1946. A 1987 study undertaken by Birzeit University's Center for Research and Documentation of Palestinian Society found "the numbers of those killed does not exceed 120".

The Haganah leaders admitted that the massacre "disgraced the cause of Jewish fighters and dishonored Jewish arms and the Jewish flag." They played down the fact that their militia had reinforced the terrorists' attack, even though they did not participate in the barbarism and looting during the subsequent "mopping up" operations.

They also played down the fact that, in Begin's words, "Deir Yassin was captured with the knowledge of the Haganah and with the approval of its commander" as a part of its "plan for establishing an airfield."
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