Mishegaas for Jan. 5, 2008

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s siege on Gaza, Saturday, Jan. 3. More photos.

• How-to on using social media tools (like Twitter) to track the Israel-Gaza conflict. [Mashable]
• Wired reports on Israel’s use of social media in the propaganda war. [Wired]
• Israel’s consulate holds a press conference on Twitter. [NY Times]
• “Israel’s assault on Gaza has launched an emotional firestorm on Facebook—including violent threats, Nazi slurs, and pleas for reconciliation.” [Daily Beast]
• Friend-of-the-blog Charles Lenchner examines the use of Nazi/Holocaust comparisons by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. [Change.org]
• In what strikes me as one of the most balanced assessments of the current conflict I’ve read yet, the International Worker’s Tendency denounces ongoing violence by Hamas and Israel. [IWT]
• Are Israel’s actions in the best interest of achieving the peace it so desires? No, says Jonathan Freedland. [Guardian]
• Bernard Avishai: Israel’s tactics only embolden Hamas and its supporters. [Daily Beast]
• Thousands rally in Israel against the Gaza incursion. [Al Jazeera]
• J Street rebuts Reform leader Yoffie’s critical op-ed. [J Street]
• Gideon Levy asks whether the Israeli public’s response to the Gaza incursion is evidence of Israel’s moral collapse. [Haaretz]
• Diaspora Jews are more critical of Israel’s military actions than ever before, says Anshel Pfeffer. [Haaretz]
• Arab American pollster James Zogby says American Jewish dissent against the Gaza incursion “may help open up the policy debate.” [Huffington Post]
• Reza Aslan: “Can the difference between lawful and unlawful war—between a soldier and terrorist—really be a matter of matching uniforms?” [Daily Beast]

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