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nytimes.com - 1/25/2009

Amid the Destruction, a Return to Life in Gaza

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A week after the war between Israel and Hamas stopped, Gaza remains in a kind of stupor as its residents recover. >

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jpost.com - 1/26/2009

Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for Gaza war | Middle East | Jerusalem Post

— jpost.com — Hamas bears full responsibility for the war in Gaza, a top EU official said Monday in the... Strip, calling the group "a terrorist movement." "At this time we have to also recall the overwhelming responsibility of Hamas," Louis Michel, European ... (more) Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for ...

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lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/26/2009

How badly did Gaza poison the well?

— lynch.foreignpolicy.com — 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 ... (more) How badly did Gaza poison the well?

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news.bbc.co.uk - 1/27/2009

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel launches attacks in Gaza

— news.bbc.co.uk — Buildings destroyed during Israel's incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.... (more) BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel launches attacks in Gaza

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The Costs of Hawkishness
Obsidian Wings — ... And so regardless of one's position on Israel/Palestine, surely everyone can feel sorrow at the sheer human costs of the Gaza campaign: ...

Not As Bad As they Made It Sound
Rhymes With Right — During Israel's incursion into Gaza to stop missile attacks on civilians, we heard a lot of reports that made it sound as if not one stone was being left upon another in Gaza. Indeed, one of the worst perpetrators was the New York Times. That's why I find this little tidbit in an article today to be fascinating. Most of Gaza, especially the capital, Gaza City, remains largely intact. This is not Grozny after the Chechen war or Dresden after World War II. The hospitals are coping; shops are reopening; traffic is becoming a problem once again. Israel has tripled the amount of ...

In Gaza, the Suffering Continues
Comments from Left Field — Ethan Bronner opens his New York Times article about conditions in Gaza one week after Israel’s unilateral ceasefire in rather restrained fashion: The boys clapped and sang to pulsating music. They played games and shouted. It could have been a group activity at any school in any place, but this was the middle school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza, near where the United Nations says some 40 people were killed by Israeli mortar fire earlier this month. Saturday was the first day of school since before the war, and 1,000 homeless people had been removed from the building so that classes could begin. Even then, ...