npr.org - 1/22/2009
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Mike Shuster Morning Edition , January 6, 2009 Palestinians say Israeli attacks on Gaza intensified before dawn Tuesday. Israeli soldiers seized several buildings inside Gaza City. Late Monday, three Israeli soldiers were killed by what Israeli officials say was an errant tank round. An ...
ynetnews.com - 1/22/2009
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ynetnews.com —
Physician at Gaza's Shifa Hospital tells Italian newspaper
number of dead in Israeli offensive 'stands at no...
more than 500 or 600, most of them youths recruited to Hamas' ranks'. Senior Palestinian Health Ministry official denies claims, IDF estimate ...
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Gazan doctor says death toll inflated
ft.com - 1/22/2009
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ft.com —
President Barack Obama urged Israel on Thursday to
open its borders with Gaza. The plea came in...
a speech that signalled the new US administration’s shift from Bush-era policy on the Middle East and the world as a whole. In a high-profile address on ...
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FT.com / US & Canada - Obama urges Israel to open ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/19/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
The editorial team here has asked its bloggers
to weigh in on what should happen and what...
will likely happen once the inauguration festivities end and reality sets in. My immediate plans will likely include thawing out my hands and trying to hitch a ...
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What now? Four suggestions for Obama
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Tomgram: Tony Karon, Obama's Gaza Opportunity
TomDispatch —
[Note for TomDispatch readers: Saturday is usually a dead zone for this site, but no longer. For the next two Saturdays, TomDispatch will be offering sizeable excerpts from a soon-to-be-published graphic memoir, Waltz with Bashir, created alongside the remarkable new Israeli animated movie of the same title about the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which has just received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Keep your eyes out for it. Tell your friends. It's a must read.]
Yes, we now know the ever grimmer statistics: more than 1,400 dead Gazans (and rising as bodies are dug out of the rubble); 5,500 wounded; ...
Change Gaza Can Believe In
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Y es, we now know the ever grimmer statistics: more than 1,400 dead Gazans (and rising as bodies are dug out of the rubble); 5,500 wounded; hundreds of children killed; 4,000 to 5,000 homes destroyed and 20,000 damaged 14% of all buildings in Gaza; 50,000 or more homeless; 400,000 without water; 50 U.N. facilities , 21 medical facilities, 1,500 factories and workshops, and 20 mosques reportedly damaged or destroyed; the smashed schools and university structures ; the obliterated government buildings; the estimated almost two billion dollars in damage; all taking place on a blockaded strip of land 25 miles long and 4 to ...
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gazatoday.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — Day 23 of Israeli War On Gaza Informative Report on Gaza War: Death toll 1310, wounded 5600 By: Sameh A. Habeeb: A Photojournalist, Humanitarian & Peace Activist in Gaza Strip. Dear Editors, Journalists and Friends, Thousands of people appeared on ...
A New Horror
susiemadrak.com 1/15/2009 — A new weapon , developed by the US in 2006, called DIME. Apparently this is what
s causing the amputations we’re seeing in Gaza:
AMY GOODMAN: Let me go to Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has just returned from Gaza, the Shifa Hospital. He’s back in ...
Misinformation about the 2005 Gaza Withdrawal
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com 1/7/2009 — I love Daniel Levy -- we're brothers in Zionism , after all -- but sometimes he drives me nuts. Andrew links without comment to Daniel's recent post informing the world that Ariel Sharon was not seeking peace when he withdrew from Gaza in 2005: One ...
Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic [Jonn]
thisainthell.us 1/11/2009 — This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguaration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans, but as you can see by the flag above, it was more an ...
Gaza Update: Breaking the Cease-fire
firedoglake.com 1/27/2009 —
There are reports of a clash on the Gaza border and unconfirmed news of one Israeli soldier killed and three wounded. At the moment it is difficult to tell what really happened. The most complete report so far is from Reuters :
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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 1/15/2009 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel 's ...
How badly did Gaza poison the well?
lynch.foreignpolicy.com 1/26/2009 — The Israeli attack on Gaza during the last weeks of the Bush administration looks more than ever like Bush's "last gift" to Israel and to the region -- carried out during the transition, with no American attempt to intervene, ending ...
Gaza Not In Ruins
commentarymagazine.com 1/25/2009 — You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of an article buried in the middle of the Sunday New York Times before you find out that the Israeli Defense Forces are not quite the barbarians that they have been made out to be. Writes Times correspondent ...
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Christian Science Monitor | Commentary 1/21/2009
Readers write about the US recovering its spiritual health along with its economic health, the need for US presidents to defend our rights as well as our land, and reports that Israel has used white phosphorus against Gaza.
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