gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 12/31/2008
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Malcolm Hoenlein , Executive Vice Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations chaired a blogger conference call today. High level Israeli officials and military personnel briefed bloggers and broadcasters on the latest developments regarding Israel's response to ...
CNN uses the word “terrorist” re: Hamas, then redacts it
israpundit.com 12/30/2008 — By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com
CNN is a leader of, and role model for, the very politically-correct “mainstream” media. So I was flabbergasted to read an article posted today entitled, “Barak: Israel in ‘all-out war’ ...
What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?
michaeltotten.com 12/30/2008 — “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.” – President-elect Barack Obama
Now that Hamas’s ...
Human Rights Watch: Israel, Hamas Violating International Law
huffingtonpost.com 12/31/2008 — New York, December 30, 2008 - Israel and Hamas both must respect the prohibition under the laws of war against deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern about Israeli ...
Break Hamas, Do Not Wipe It Out —
Israpundit
by Dr. Ron Breiman
Tightening the siege would prevent a bloody war.
This article was written before Operation “Cast Lead” was launched. Three days later, it seems that Israel led by Olmert-Livni-Barak in the first war in the second Lebanon (Gaza) behaves just like Israel led ...
The coming ground war —
Yourish.com
Here’s where I make a fool of myself and try my hand at analysis. Because I’m not in any way, shape, or form a military expert. But I completely disagree with this opinion piece in Ha’aretz , which says that Israel isn’t launching the ground war because they’re ...
Egypt Declares Rhetorical War on Hamas —
PoliGazette
The most interesting development in the Middle East after Israel first declared war on Hamas and carried out hundreds of attacks against Hamas targets in Gaza is the attitude of Egypt’s leaders to Hamas and the war: although the Egyptian government officially declared that Israel was ...
NYT: Hamas upgrades = success / Israel defends = disaster —
Yourish.com
The NYT today features two articles about Israel’s war against Hamas that are rather revealing. One is Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Rocket Arsenal , and the second is In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer They are revealing both for what they say and don’t say as ...
Hamas war crimes —
Yourish.com
Hamas operatives are hiding in hospitals and operating rocket launchers in densely-populated civilian areas.
Diskin also noted that large numbers of Hamas operatives are hiding in hospitals and that some are posing as medical staff. “Some are also hiding in mosques and some of those ...
Be very, very skeptical —
Yourish.com
One of the common memes about Israel’s war against Hamas is that Israel is strengthening Hamas by causing Palestinians to rally around the terrorist group. Of course we heard this for years. It was the reason Israel couldn’t fight Fatah based terror from 1993 to 2003. But of course, ...
Israel Pounds Hamas Buildings in "All-Out War" —
The Page by Mark Halperin
Israel bombs a Hamas government compound early Tuesday, leveling at least three structures, including the foreign ministry building, according to eyewitnesses and Hamas security sources.
Israeli PM Olmert tells President Shimon Peres that the aerial phase of the operation is "the first ...
The hopelessness in Gaza-Israel relationship —
The Moderate Voice
This is it:
As for the Palestinians, they plan to declare victory regardless of what happens. If the IDF withdraws rapidly, without a ground operation and without having seriously reduced the rocket fire, Hamas will boast that it survived and Israel blinked first.
But Hamas officials and ...
More on the ground war —
Yourish.com
First, the Muqata, with this analysis :
7:32 PM Interesting. Apparently, IDF Intellignce believes (based on the sources I’ve gleaned) that the largest Hamas Grad Missile bunker in Gaza is located…directly beneath the Gaza Shifa Hospital. Israel’s Channel 1 TV reports that ...
The Battle of Gaza and the Real War —
Pajamas Media
Israel's operation against Hamas can only be understood as part of a broader whole: the war against the terror masters in Tehran. (Also, Ron Radosh:
The Essential Articles on the War Against Hamas, Phyllis Chesler: Internet Forces Watching Israel's Back and Roger L. Simon: Gaza: The Definitive ...
The Daily Left - Israel Bombs Hamas —
The Latest on Air America
Hey everybody. I’m Farron Cousins, and this is The Daily Left – your interactive source for progressive news and commentary. Thanks for joining me.
Today’s top story – For the third day, Israel has continued bombing Hamas, in what has been described as an “all out war” between the two. The ...
Hamas Rejects Truce Israel Isn't Offering —
Little Green Footballs
Today Israel is continuing to pound Hamas targets from the air, and massing troops on the Gaza border for a ground assault; the Israeli defense minister has declared this a “ war to the bitter end .”
Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, hiding in Damascus, says “ No truce for ...
Morning war round-up —
Yourish.com
The war has expanded to the West Bank, which was utterly predictable: Six wounded in W. Bank stabbing attack The terrorist was shot by an MDA medic. An armed society is a prepared society.
IAF destroying ammo dumps: IAF hits Hamas ammo stocks, tunnels Poor, poor Hamas. All that effort, gone ...
Telling —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
When passages like the one contained in this story appear in discussing the most recent eruption of conflict between Israel and Hamas, you know that Hamas may well have stepped in it:
There were protests and demonstrations against the offensive throughout the Arab world, as well as in several ...
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