haaretz.com - 1/6/2009
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Hamas must not be allowed to win its conflict with the IDF, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday told a delegation of European foreign ministers in a closed conversation. The comment occurred even as Hamas, for the first time since the fighting began, sent representatives to Cairo to ...
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 - ...
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
timesonline.co.uk - 1/5/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
Fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza
City yesterday as a Hamas leader warned that the...
Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel s devastating assault. They have legitimised the murder of their ...
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Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children
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Egyptian President Mubarak Says He Wants an Israeli Victory
Gateway Pundit —
... to the individual who assassinates Hosni Mubarak. ...That was before his comments from today. Demonstrators carry pictures of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak as they shout slogans in front of The Interests Section of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Tehran December 8, 2008. Demonstrators were protesting Egypt's ties with Israel. (REUTERS/Stringer) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told visiting foreign ministers today that he wants Israel to defeat Hamas. Nepal News reported, via ...
It Was Bound To Happen
Taylor Marsh —
... Closed conversations are one thing for Egypt’s Mubarak: Hamas must not be allowed to win its conflict with the IDF, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday told a delegation of European foreign ministers in a closed conversation. But after days of quiet, ...
Egypt’s President Speaks Out: Hamas Has to Lose
PoliGazette —
... After letting leading figures of his country’s parliament, actors and journalists wage a rhetorical war on Hamas, Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has finally spoken out himself. He did so during a conversation with an EU delegation which went to the Middle East in order to come up with some kind of compromise regarding the Israel-Hamas crisis. ...
Havoc
Neptunus Lex —
... in the midst of non-combatants is well-known. Even though such sites lose their protected status under the laws of armed conflict when turned to military use, it’s a win-win for the forces of barbarism: If the IDF does not return fire, Hamas militants can shoot from behind the skirts of schoolchildren with impunity. If they do fire, the resulting havoc scores for them a critical information operations victory. The Arab street will run wild with anger while their governments cry crocodile tears, the funding taps are loosened in Qom, Qatar, Riyadh and Dubai ...
Am I being paranoid?
Rantings of a Sandmonkey —
... Then, Nasrallah comes out and accuses the Egyptian leadership of being in cahoots with the Israelis and demands that the border corssing gets opend up. Then Israeli Newspaper Haaretz publishes a non-sourced report stating that Mubarak told the EU people that Hamas must be defeated and that he is on Israel's side of this war (which ...
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