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Our top ten viewed posts in 2014 — and five most prolific commenters, too!

Happy new year! The past year has been a landmark one in the life of this website because of a horror: the war in Gaza that was so often a slaughter, with more than 2100 Palestinians killed, including hundreds of children, and 73 Israelis, seven of whom were civilians. Gaza drew the world’s attention, and it drove traffic numbers at our site, with millions more visitors than we have had in years gone by, seeking news they were not getting in the mainstream.

In 2014 we had just under 17 million visits to the site. For comparison, last year we had 8.3 million visits. In the last year we published 2,400 stories; here are our ten most viewed posts of the last year:

1. Boston subway ads are shocking– ‘and so is the reality on the ground’ by Annie Robbins, in June: 946,637 views

2. In Photos: Worldwide protest against Israeli attack on Gaza, again by Annie,  820,820 views

3. Report: Hamas offers Israel 10 conditions for a 10 year truce, by Ira Glunts, 221,905 views

4. Why I, a Palestinian-American Muslim, went to the White House Iftar and what I learned, by Tarik Takkesh, 138,169 views

5. Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away, by Phil Weiss, 113,665 views

6. Claim that Hamas killed 3 teens is turning out to be the WMD of Gaza onslaught, by Adam Horowitz and Phil, 110,535 views

7. Terrifying tweets of pre-Army Israeli teens, by David Sheen, 103,608 views

8. Israeli military announce they will bomb al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, by the International Solidarity Movement, 91,469 views

9. Naomi Wolf walked out of synagogue when they had nothing to say about Gaza massacre, by Phil, 84,919 views

10. White House says US can’t stop ‘tsunami’ of boycott and isolation if Israel won’t end ‘occupations,’ by Phil, 82,697 views

We also hosted 96,351 (and counting) comments! Here are our top five commenters in the last year, ranked by production:

1. just: 5098 COMMENTS

2. seafoid: 4172 COMMENTS

3. Mooser: 4128 COMMENTS

4. Citizen: 3273 COMMENTS

5. Annie Robbins: 3126 COMMENTS

We thank our readers for coming here and thank our commenters for sharing their opinions! We are grateful to you for helping us grow and gain influence. We wish everyone a healthy and peaceful new year!

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Happy New Year!

Keep up the good work. err make that great work.

And just think of how many comments Mooser could have made if he hadn’t taken a sabbatical.

Such are engines if change.

Well done. Thanks. Happy New Year and a great 2015!

17 million visits is impressive. That #5 about Arendt was a real keeper too.

If this is the first year of saying who was the top commenter then by rights it should be called the “Just Award.”

You’re welcome.