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weeklystandard.com - 12/31/2008
A Quick Victory?
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Eric Trager says that's the best possible outcome for Israel: ...Israel should move towards asserting a quick victory - immediately. At the moment, Israel has Hamas cornered: through its air strikes on key Hamas targets, Israel has achieved a peak in its military offensive, and the threat of ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/1/2009
Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday,... killing him along with two wives and four children in the first attack on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers. As the aerial bombardment escalated, the army ... (more) Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - ...

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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/31/2008
The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging
— meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving that one side is righter than the other.  Since... no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you ... (more) The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging

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jewcy.com - 12/31/2008
Hamas as a Political Failure
— jewcy.com — By Michael Weiss > Commentators in the American and European press too often succumb to a solipsistic... way of thinking of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as if only one side had any autonomy or agency. The debate between supporters and critics of Israel ... (more) Hamas as a Political Failure

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  The Siege Of Gaza: Blog Reax

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The Siege Of Gaza: Blog Reax
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Michael Moynihan: Hamas's popularity was on the decrease but ticked up again the following month when it breached the border wall with Egypt. And the Hamas leadership clearly believes that more radical provocations and acts of "resistance" resonate will Gazans. One can hope that the more moderate Fatah movement will see a boost in popularity, but anecdotal evidence suggests the airstrikes are having the opposite effect. Michael Goldfarb: ...most of the world's democracies are irrelevant in this ...

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