guardian.co.uk - 1/3/2009
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George Bush today blamed the continuing violence in Gaza on Hamas terrorism and offered no criticism of Israel in his first comments since Israeli air strikes began a week ago. The US president condemned Hamas's campaign of rocket attacks on Israel as an "act of terror" and said no peace deal ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a...
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
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prospect.org —
This blog is on a light schedule today
and tomorrow due to various New Years related program...
activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ...
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AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
latimes.com - 1/2/2009
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latimes.com —
It's a new year in an old and
bloody world. In Israel, politicians jockeying for power have...
launched the most lethal military assault on Palestinian territory in decades. Israel has justified its bombardment of Gaza on the grounds that Hamas broke a ...
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Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times
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Bush Blames Bush Hamas For Gaza Fighting
Pirate's Cove —
... In a story guaranteed to push any Liberal/progressive that is still sort of supporting Israel over Hamas in to the Hamas corner, President Bush tells whose fault the fighting is ...
Bush Blames Bush Hamas For Gaza Fighting
Stop The ACLU —
In a story guaranteed to push any Liberal/progressive that is still sort of supporting Israel over Hamas in to the Hamas corner, President Bush tells whose fault the fighting is George Bush today blamed the continuing violence in Gaza on Hamas terrorism and offered no criticism of Israel in his first comments since Israeli air strikes began a week ago. The US president condemned Hamas’s campaign of rocket attacks on Israel as an “act of terror” and said no peace deal would be acceptable unless the flow of smuggled weapons to terrorist groups was monitored and stopped.“This ...
Gaza Attacks Roil Iraq — Where’s The “Debate”?
Firedoglake —
... Never really abe to keep himself from making a bad situation worse, George Bush issues his own conditions for a cease-fire.
As Glenn Greenwald has noted, the Democratic Leadership is in complete lockstep with Bush -- unilaterally supporting Israel's actions, and placing the fullblame on Hamas.
According to the latest Rasmusen poll, however, the American public does not agree with that assessment: ...
Honesty and peace, they go hand in hand. And without one…
Comments from Left Field —
... For the past eight years Bush has used the “Blame the Beaten Wife” argument against Palestinians, so his implementation of it again in his radio address today isn’t surprising. Likewise, maybe this part of is speech isn’t surprising, either, but I think it’s worthy of closer inspection: ...
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President George W. Bush on Friday branded the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel an "act of terror" and outlined his own condition for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying no peace deal would be acceptable without monitoring to halt the flow of smuggled ...
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