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USEFUL IDIOT: Greenwald and Gaza. ?Since Glenn Greenwald is showing up on MSNBC and elsewhere, as ?

By Glenn Reynolds

USEFUL IDIOT: Greenwald and Gaza. “Since Glenn Greenwald is showing up on MSNBC and elsewhere, as an ‘expert’ on Israel and Gaza, this is as good a time as any to recall his record with regard to the last major Hamas-Israel blowup, the Gaza incursion in 2008-09. . . . And while we?re on the subject of Greenwald, here?s an interview with Greenwald in which he (a) claims that Israel?s boarding of a blockade-running ship violates international law because the ship was in international waters. Ruth Wedgwood, an actual expert in international law, then comes on to rebut him. . . . and (b) accuses everyone who disagrees with him about Israel?s blockade of simply regurgitating propaganda, which is amusing coming from someone who unhesitatingly repeated the following false propaganda from the ‘Free Gaza’ activists.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).