michaeltotten.com - 1/8/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama is getting grief from all corners for refusing to say anything substantial about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. It's a legitimate complaint up to a point. Obama deliberately campaigned as a Rorschach candidate upon whom would-be supporters could project ...
theweek.com - 1/8/2009
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theweek.com —
Good for Shrum for championing Israel s right
to defend itself against the Hamas rocket barrage. He...
is correct, too, that lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians abandon their hope that Israel can somehow be defeated or destroyed. ...
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Why Democrats recoil from Gaza
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/9/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Israel is to keep up its offensive in
the Gaza Strip despite a UN call for an...
immediate end to nearly two weeks of conflict involving Hamas militants. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the latest firing of rockets into Israel showed the resolution was ...
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UN ceasefire call goes unheeded
latimes.com - 1/6/2009
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latimes.com —
Discuss Article (121 Comments) 'Go back to the
oven! You need a big oven, that's what you...
need!" This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse last week during an anti-Israel rally in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other ...
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Michael Totten: A Defense of Barack Obama
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... States only has one president at a time. “We can’t have two administrations running foreign policy at the same time,” he says. “We simply can’t do it.” He could try to undermine the current President Bush, but he’s right that it wouldn’t be proper. On the other hand, perhaps he silently supports Israel’s short operation in Gaza against a terrorist army with whom he himself repeatedly said he would refuse to negotiate. If he said so out loud, though, his global “hope and change” ho read ...
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War: What Is It Good For?
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michaeltotten.com 1/19/2009 — I'm in Israel now and have been here since Saturday afternoon. I have one more day with a packed schedule and then I should be able to squeeze in some time to write. Stay tuned for several short analysis pieces and a long dispatch from the border with ...
Anti-Semitism Sweeps Europe in Wake of Gaza Operation
brusselsjournal.com 1/18/2009 —
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What is the Israel lobby?
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 1/13/2009 — Stephen Walt, of The Israel Lobby fame, launches into the blogosphere with a bang: Here's a thought experiment:
Imagine that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War,
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Getting Closer to Nowhere
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/11/2009 — Ehud Olmert says that Israel is now “close” to achieving its goals in Gaza. Which is nice, except nobody’s ever been able to clarify what those goals are. As hard-core anti-semite Anthony Cordesman wrote the other day :
This ...
U.S. to support ceasefire resolution —
First Read 1/8/2009
From NBC's Libby Leist NEW YORK -- After two days of intense negotiations, the U.S. has caved to pressure from Arab leaders and is now working on a U.N. resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
According to Western and Arab diplomats, the ...
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