At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Six members of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades were in it at the time. Five of them were killed. The sixth one was seriously injured.

Twenty minutes later, another aircraft attacked a vehicle in which other Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades members were traveling. They escaped harm by fleeing before missiles struck their car and destroyed it.

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Anyone incapable of discerning the smear piece against Senator McCain, who I often refer to as Crazy Johnny “Madman” McCain, isn’t politically astute enough to vote or to even read a typical non-journalistic American newspaper. It was definitely a hit piece! And how, you may ask, do I know this?

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Ralph Nader

Making an exception this Sunday morning, and needing to nurse an aching back, I decided to light down gingerly in my favorite couch and switched on the worse-than-useless Sunday morning TV political blab sessions.

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A word of warning to the "Israel first" crowd in America, if you succeed in forcing us into a nuclear war to appease your fears about Iran, there will be hell to pay.

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The Palestinian Information Center

From Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah

The famous American magazine Vanity Fair has publishing a meticulously-researched expose showing that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, his aide Muhammed Dahlan actively conspired with the Bush administration to topple the democratically-elected government of Hamas and engineer civil war in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a lengthy article in the magazine’s latest issue, Vanity Fair said it obtained “confidential documents” corroborated by sources in the US and Palestine, which lay bare a covert American operation, approved by the President Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war.

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