Israel Prepares Major Offensive against Gaza: Hopes of Gaza Cast in Lead

Global Research by Prof Richard Falk | Jan. 9, 2011 (News Report)

The influential Israeli journalist, Ron Ren-Yishai, writes on December 29, 2010, of the likely prospect of a new major IDF attack, quoting senior Israeli military officers as saying "It's not a question of if, but rather of when," a view that that is shared, according to Ren-Yishai, by "government ministers, Knesset members and municipal heads in the Gaza region".

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by Gerald Zuckier - Jan. 10, 2011

As a geneticist in a former life, I realized a while back that just as one can trace the reproduction of a species by following a specific mutation, one can trace the parroting of a story on the Internet by following the spread of a specific error. As in, to be specific, the nonexistent "influential Israeli journalist, Ron Ren-Yishai", who apparently has been quoted almost 500,000 times according to Google, despite the difficult hurdle of his nonexistence. And always in the exact words of this "article", by which I mean no insult to actual articles. That's almost half a million bloggers who are happy to say anything showing Israel in a bad light, without niceties such as using Google to check primary sources. (For an exercise ... More »

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