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December 17, 2012

Is Iron Dome Anti-Peace?

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

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I hate to spend time discussing US media coverage of Israel. It should be clearly understood that in general this coverage is a farce and should not be taken seriously. Yet there are examples which are irresistible because they are so revealing of the political as well as media assumptions made about Israel that so mislead the Western public and policymakers.

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