jpost.com - 12/29/2008
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Defense Minister and Labor chairman Ehud Barak on Monday said that Israel would expand its military operation in the Gaza Strip until all the goals were achieved. He spoke at a special Knesset session attended, among others, by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and opposition leader Binyamin ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/29/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel obliterated symbols of
Hamas power on the third day of what the
defense minister described Monday as a "war to the bitter end," striking next to the Hamas premier's home, and devastating a security compound and a ...
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Israel says Gaza assault 'war to the bitter end' - ...
tnr.com - 12/29/2008
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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, ...
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A Crisis And An Opportunity
topics.nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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topics.nytimes.com —
Fatah became preeminent among Palestinian factions in the
1960s though a series of strikes against Israel --
in its eyes, successful military campaigns, though condemned by Israel and the West as terrorism -- and by the end of the decade it was the ...
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Al Fatah - The New York Times
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Ehud Barak: It's 'All Out War'
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
--updated--
For President-elect Obama, the mantra remains "one president at a time."
Iraqi cleric Ayatollah
Ali al-Sistani has weighed in to urge everyone to fight against Israel.
Juan Cole asks a good question. ...
Israel Presses Home Air Assault on Hamas
A Blog For All —
... by Hamas today. Ehud Barak has said that this is an all-out war against Hamas. We'll see if that is just rhetoric of whether Israel intends to actually go for victory against the terrorist group. Has Israel learned the lessons of the Hizbullah war? Stay tuned, because if Israel doesn't succeed in fulfilling its mission objectives and the rockets continue to hit Israel, Israel's political leaders will not have fulfilled their objectives either. The idea is not to fight to a stalemate, but to win. If Hamas had the weapons and technology available to Israel, they would not ...
Livni sums it up
This Blog Is Full Of Crap —
Tzipi Livni:
"Hamas is an Islamic extremist group that does not serve its people but only itself," Livni said. "It's a terrorist organization funded and trained by Iran. I will not accept any equation between the Hamas that tries to kill children and Israel that defends itself while doing everything possible to prevent harming children."
Anyone who says otherwise should use their mouth for eating shit, anyone who writes otherwise should use their ass for sitting on their hands, and to think otherwise is an oxymoron for it is not thinking at all.
Fifth Column
Power Line —
... Maybe it's only because I've failed to pay attention, but I was shocked by the reaction of Arab members of Israel's Knesset to the current conflict. Arab MKs united to oppose Israel's effort to defend itself against attacks from Gaza, and some Arab members declared their solidarity with their fellow Arabs in the Strip: ...
Israeli Arab Knesset members: a "fifth column for the Hamas"
Jihad Watch —
... forces of jihad against those of the state they live in and represent in government. Thus Lieberman is quite right: they're a fifth column. And when one understands the Islamic doctrine of jihad as taught by all its sects and schools, and the supra-national character of the Islamic umma, the casual treason of these MK's becomes crystal clear.
But few, very few, wish to understand those things.
"MKs trade volleys over Gaza op," by Gil Hoffman for the Jerusalem Post, December 20 (thanks to James):
Some 200 ...
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taylormarsh.com 12/29/2008 — BY TAYLOR MARSH
--updated--
For President-elect Obama, the mantra remains "one president at a time."
Iraqi cleric Ayatollah
Ali al-Sistani has weighed in to urge everyone to fight against Israel.
Juan Cole asks a good question.
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Israel: Fighting 'could get worse' —
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