news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip I live alone in my office. My wife and two young children moved in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. All the government buildings on my beat have been obliterated. ...
foxnews.com - 1/8/2009
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foxnews.com —
Thursday, January 08, 2009 By Jennifer Lawinski A
high-profile Norwegian doctor who has said the September 11...
terrorists were justified in their attack is now treating patients in Gaza and is being accused of presenting "hard-core propaganda" to TV ...
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High-Profile Doctor in Gaza Called an 'Apologist for ...
time.com - 1/8/2009
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time.com —
Soldiers on patrol at Kibbutz Nir Am, a
mile from Gaza. Even after the start of Israel's...
Jan. 4 ground offensive, communities near the border remained vulnerable to Hamas' rockets.
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Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
timesonline.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
A question mark hangs over Pope Benedict XVI's
planned trip to Israel in May after Israeli officials...
expressed outrage over a Vatican statement comparing Gaza to a "big concentration camp". The Pope today condemned the use of violence by both Israel ...
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'Concentration camp' remark threatens Pope's visit to ...
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AP reporter watches Israeli strike destroy own home on YouTube
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... we once shopped is closed. Food is scarce all over town. Three days after Israel began its airstrikes against Hamas militants on Dec. 27, my apartment building was shaken by bombs aimed at a nearby Hamas-run government compound. My brother took a picture of the room where my boys, 2-year-old Hikmet and 6-month-old Ahmed, once slept. Their toys were broken, shrapnel had punched through the closet and the bedroom wall had collapsed. I don't know if we will ever go back. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_g... Edited to add Yahoo frontpage headline.
Best Behavior?
Power Line —
... The news services' reliance on Palestinian stringers as reporters and photographers continues to be problematic. We were reminded of this yesterday, when the AP's star reporter in Gaza, Ibraham Barzak, wrote a personal narrative of his own experiences during the Gaza conflict: ...
Gaza not unlike a big concentration camp, says top Vatican official
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . I wonder, if Gaza’s just Dachau by another name, why’s the AP running reminiscences by its reporters of how life used to be before the bombing started? (“Al Dera, a beautiful hotel on the Mediterranean shore, was a place where young men and women smoked water pipes and flirted, and where families went for dinner on Thursdays.”) Are there similarly wistful recollections in the archives at Yad Vashem that I’m not aware of? “The Buchenwald I Knew”? I’ll spare you the atheist boilerplate about how unrealistic the Christian approach to conflict resolution is here (“violence, ...
Gaza Update: Journalists The New Targets in Israeli Attacks
Firedoglake —
... For a quite personal account of the experiences of Gazan reporters, AP correspondent for Gaza, Ibrahim Barzak’s essay is heartbreaking and deserves to be widely read. ...
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