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Ceci n'est pas une Analogy
reason.com - 1/12/2009
Ceci n'est pas une Analogy
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Over at Harvard's Olin Center Middle East Strategy blog , Brookings Institution scholar Daniel Byman is puzzled by Israel's endgame strategy (if one exists) in its ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Amongst most mainstream commenters, there is little doubt as to whether or not Israel is ...
Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal | Confronting Hamas | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 1/12/2009
Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal | Confronting Hamas | Jerusalem Post
— jpost.com — Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with... Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday. The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials who visited ... (more) Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal | ...

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haaretz.com - 1/12/2009
Sources: Hamas leaders hiding in basement of Israel-built hospital in Gaza - ...
— haaretz.com — Senior Hamas officials in Gaza are hiding out in a "bunker" built by Israel, intelligence officials suspect:... Many are believed to be in the basements of the Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City, which was refurbished during Israel's occupation of the ... (more) Sources: Hamas leaders hiding in basement  ...

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csis.org - 1/10/2009
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— csis.org — Synopsis: The Israeli-Hamas War, and there is little else that it can be called, has now lasted... two weeks. Israeli jets have flown some 800 strike sorties, and the IDF has pushed deep into Gaza. Israel also continues to report tactical gains. The IDF ... (more) Publications

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Matt Yglesias: "I Don't Believe in Analogies"
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Monday, January 12, 2009 [image] Matt Yglesias: "I Don't Believe in Analogies" [ Mark Hemingway ] So why does he make such bad one regarding Gaza ? 01/12 04:48 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us

On Analogies
Matthew Yglesias — ... about the concept of self-defense. Since the point was relevant to the debate over the fighting in Gaza, I tried to explicitly say that I didn’t want the story to be read as an analogy since I don’t believe in trying to conduct arguments by analogy. Well along comes Michael Moynihan to point out that the facts in my story don’t precisely parallel the situation in Gaza. ...

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — The boss believes in continuity we can believe in. David Freddoso explains Nancy Pelosi's power grab. Thirty percent of votes were cast before Election Day. Obama plans to keep the estate tax. Michael Moynihan throws a rock at Matthew Yglesias's head. Poland hopes Obama will back missile defense. One of the Somali pirates who drowned with his booty a few days ago has washed ashore with $153,000.

Downplaying Hamas
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture — ... been knocked down and injured,” Yglesias acknowledged. But even if Yglesias had been hit, “obviously it wouldn’t have been right for me to stop, get off my bike, pull a bazooka out of my bag, and blow the houses from which the rock emanated to smithereens while shouting ‘self-defense!’ and ‘double-effect!’” Analogies are perilous instruments. Despite Yglesias’s insistence that he wasn’t making an analogy, his comparison, if you will, is preposterous. As Reason’s Michael Moynihan pointed out , for Yglesias’s rough-neighborhood allegory to approximate the reality of what was ...

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