time.com - 1/4/2009
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(WASHINGTON) Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Israel did not seek U.S. approval before a ground invasion against Hamas in the bloodiest Mideast clash in years. From the White House to Capitol Hill, U.S. officials remained firmly behind Israel. They urged a cease-fire, but put the ...
israelnationalnews.com - 1/6/2009
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israelnationalnews.com —
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Az-Zahar claimed victory for
Hamas on Monday, saying Hamas had succeeded in “destroying...
Israel's sense of security” with its rocket attacks. Zahar made his proclamation in video footage sent from a secret ...
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Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children - ...
jta.org - 1/6/2009
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jta.org —
Top Democrats are planning to introduce a nonbinding
congressional resolution supporting Israel's goal in its Gaza Strip...
operation.
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Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Noah Pollak asked me to provide some framework
for a discussion of proportionality and just war theory...
with respect to the Israeli attack on Gaza. In re-reading my Catechism and brushing up on just war theory, I am struck first of all by how alien ...
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Proportionality And Terror
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Children of a Lesser Allah
At-Largely —
... Cheney goads Bush into giving tacit approval for Israel to launch a military offensive against a group of sand colored people who, in terms of relative firepower, amount to an ant colony. Kondi does her hair up like a fright wig and drags out the ceasefire process until Israel a) has killed all the sand colored people it wants to kill or b) starts getting its tohkes kicked by the sand colored people and wants mommy to make them stop it. Take Two Dick Cheney says Israel didn't seek "U.S. approval" to begin the ground attack into Gaza. Heh. They didn't seek "U.S. approval" ...
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