yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/27/2008
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The Israeli government, seemingly dissatisfied with the results of their earlier effort to just make life as miserable as possible for residents of the Gaza strip went and killed a couple of hundred people in retaliatory airstrikes. The strikes were in response to Hamas’ habit of ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/27/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli warplanes retaliating for
rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of...
security compounds across the Hamas -ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing at least 155 and wounding more than ...
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Israel launches air strikes on Gaza, 155 dead - Yahoo! News
lennybendavid.com - 12/28/2008
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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 ...
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I*Consult: Israel Attacks Hamas -- Here Comes the Hamas ...
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Israel-Palestine, Again
The Reality-Based Community —
... except to say that 1) no other country would be asked to tolerate what the Israelis have been asked to tolerate on their southern border; 2) the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza was bad enough before now having to deal with this violence; 3) domestic politics is shot through all of this (with Kadima, Labour and Hamas all trying to show how tough they are in advance of a domestic political contest); and 4) something happens to Matt Yglesias whenever this issue comes up, and he loses 40 points of IQ . The implication in the first sentence that the Israelis did this out of ...
The Third Rail Of “Israel” Cools In The Blogosphere
Firedoglake —
... , Matt Yglesias, Spencer Ackerman, Siun, Ian Welch and Stirling Newberry have done a tremendous job of stepping outside the "usual suspect" sources and taken advantage of a new freedom to explore the subject of Israel from a multiplicity of viewpoints with intelligence and integrity. ...
Related: israeli attack on gaza video
Video: What prompted Israel to attack Gaza —
Israel Matzav
This video is going to be raw for most of you, because it's in Hebrew. It's an Israeli news report on a rocket strike in Netivot earlier today in which one person was killed and five were wounded - one seriously, one moderately and the rest were shock victims.
Let's go to the videotape.
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