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powerlineblog.com - 12/25/2008
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David Ignatius reports on his interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Syria apparently has been engaged in indirect negotiations with Israel, and Assad tells Ignatius he hopes that Barack Obama will assist in the process.
Ignatius' report confirms, however, that Assad is not ...
commentarymagazine.com - 12/29/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
The Juicebox Mafia is working shifts on the
Gaza crisis. Matthew Yglesias writes something dumb enough that
it needs no elaboration: But already the number of Israelis killed by Hamas rockets has increased (from a baseline of zero) since the ...
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The Juicebox Mafia on Gaza
haaretz.com - 12/28/2008
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haaretz.com —
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a
religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday,
ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel's attacks on Gaza, state television said. "All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic ...
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Iran orders all Muslims to defend ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 12/29/2008
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If someone was sending rockets on my house
where my daughters were sleeping at night, I would
do everything to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing. These aren't my words -- they're Barack Obama's. But I attach myself to this ...
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The Gaza War
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... demeanor” is because the interview took place in Damascus. Assad knew that Ignatius wouldn’t dare write anything critical, having been granted an exclusive audience. I suspect he also realized that Ignatius’s purpose was to score cheap points against the outgoing administration and that he’d benefit from some free PR. That “easy demeanor” was probably despite Assad’s standing in his own country.
In writing about the interview Powerline concludes:
But even if Assad could be trusted to do so (a huge leap of ...
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