powerlineblog.com - 12/28/2008
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Haaretz carries an informative account of the planning that went into Israel's current offensive (Operation Cast Lead) in Gaza. Haaretz's account emphasizes the intelligence-gathering underlying the operation:
[Defense Minister Ehud] Barak gave orders to carry out a comprehensive ...
israellycool.com - 12/27/2008
lennybendavid.com - 12/28/2008
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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 ...
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I*Consult: Israel Attacks Hamas -- Here Comes the Hamas ...
blogs.tnr.com - 12/28/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
From January 1 until December 21, Hamas and
its allies had launched exactly 1,250 rockets across the
border between Gaza and Israel. Then the escalation really started: on Wednesday 70 projectile missiles landed in the Negev and its populated areas. ...
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Very Disproportionate, Indeed
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