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23 Mar 2009 10:03

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World: Impeding medical care? Israel criticized over wartime ethics

  • Israel placed numerous obstacles in the course of the operation that impeded emergency medical evacuation of the sick and wounded and also caused families to be trapped for days without food, water and medications.
  • A report by the Physicians for Human Rights • On the 22-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in January. Part of the reason this criticism is so damning: The fighting had a large civilian toll, which Israel was roundly criticized for at the time. • source

11 Mar 2009 21:38

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U.S.: Bill Clinton: Come on in, universal health care! The water’s fine!

  • The politics and the economics are much better now and the policies are better. They’ve made advances over where we were.
  • Bill Clinton • On why now’s a better time to sell the idea of universal health care than that dark time when Ace of Base was on the radio back in the early ’90s. On a side note, we were listening to Bush today. Remember them? They were dope! • source