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Some depressing holiday news : Waves of Israeli aircraft swooped over the Gaza Strip on Saturday, firing missiles at Hamas’s security headquarters and killing more than 200 people, bringing the highest death toll in Gaza in years in a crushing response to rocket fire by Hamas against Israeli ...
Israel Strikes Back
Israel Strikes Back
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I*Consult: Israel Attacks Hamas -- Here Comes the Hamas Propaganda Attack
lennybendavid.com — The humanitarian assistance also served to lull Hamas into believing that Israel was going soft. The attack on the Jewish Sabbath was also unexpected by Hamas. Israeli intelligence was tracking, following, and marking the Hamas leadership, terrorist ... (more) I*Consult: Israel Attacks Hamas -- Here Comes the Hamas ...
A Crisis And An Opportunity
tnr.com — CNN International's coverage of yesterday's fighting in Gaza concluded at midnight with a rush of images: mangled civilians writhing in the rubble, primitive hospitals overflowing with the wounded, fireballs mushrooming between apartment complexes, ... (more) A Crisis And An Opportunity
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Instahoglets Sunday
Newshoggers.com — ... puts his finger on the most unpleasant truth about Gaza: "nobody reasonably expects the actions of either side - this time being air raids on Gaza or rocket attacks on Israeli residences - to achieve their goal or result in a cessation of violence." ...

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