yourish.com - 12/30/2008
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Noah Pollak observed about a headline in the Washington Post alleging that Israel had rejected a truce with Hamas:
But nothing of the sort happened; no truce has been offered by anyone involved, least of all Hamas, and there is nothing in the story that even begins to substantiate the claim ...
haaretz.com - 12/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
Three days into Operation Cast Lead, Israel is
proposing a diplomatic exit. A ground operation likely looms...
in an effort to increase the pressure on Hamas. At the same time, however, others argue that the air force is close to exhausting its target ...
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ANALYSIS / Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground ...
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/31/2008
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving
that one side is righter than the other. Since...
no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you ...
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The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging
jewcy.com - 12/31/2008
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jewcy.com —
By Michael Weiss > Commentators in the American
and European press too often succumb to a solipsistic...
way of thinking of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as if only one side had any autonomy or agency. The debate between supporters and critics of Israel ...
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Hamas as a Political Failure
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Did a Hamas lie find its way into a Washington Post headline?
Jihad Watch —
Gee, what are the odds that the mainstream media would swallow uncritically Hamas propaganda?
Meryl Yourish has the details (thanks to James).
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