washingtonpost.com - 1/26/2009
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Many Fear That Young Will Suffer Psychological Effects of War for Decades By Griff Witte Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, January 26, 2009; A05 GAZA CITY, Jan. 25 -- One by one, the seventh-graders rose from their old wooden desks and, in toneless voices that betrayed neither sadness nor ...
jpost.com - 1/26/2009
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jpost.com —
Hamas bears full responsibility for the war in
Gaza, a top EU official said Monday in the...
Strip, calling the group "a terrorist movement." "At this time we have to also recall the overwhelming responsibility of Hamas," Louis Michel, European ...
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Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/26/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
The Israeli attack on Gaza during the last
weeks of the Bush administration looks more than ever...
like Bush's "last gift" to Israel and to the region -- carried out during the transition, with no American attempt to intervene, ending ...
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How badly did Gaza poison the well?
soccerdad.baltiblogs.com - 1/27/2009
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soccerdad.baltiblogs.com —
President Obama promised that his first trip abroad
would be to a Muslim capital. He hasn't traveled...
abroad yet, but he chose the Al-Arabiya satellite channel to grant his first interview since assuming office (via memeorandum). For its part here's ...
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Tomgram: Sandy Tolan, Five Questions for George Mitchell
TomDispatch —
... over Israel's most recent destructive acts spreading in the Jewish community (or rather communities) here and among policy thinkers more generally, further eroding support for the present Israeli government and perhaps even opening the way for some new thinking and new policies. The recent offensive also seeded years, even decades, of further bitterness into an already desperate, explosive situation -- and all for nothing, or less than nothing. It's certainly time for Israel to end its version of the Bush years. In the meantime, Sandy Tolan -- author of ...
Five Questions for George Mitchell
Antiwar.com Original —
... over Israel's most recent destructive acts spreading in the Jewish community (or rather communities) here and among policy thinkers more generally, further eroding support for the present Israeli government and perhaps even opening the way for some new thinking and new policies. The recent offensive also seeded years, even decades, of further bitterness into an already desperate, explosive situation and all for nothing, or less than nothing. It's certainly time for Israel to end its version of the Bush years. In the meantime, Sandy Tolan author of ...
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A New Horror
susiemadrak.com 1/15/2009 — A new weapon , developed by the US in 2006, called DIME. Apparently this is what
s causing the amputations we’re seeing in Gaza:
AMY GOODMAN: Let me go to Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has just returned from Gaza, the Shifa Hospital. He’s back in ...
Misinformation about the 2005 Gaza Withdrawal
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com 1/7/2009 — I love Daniel Levy -- we're brothers in Zionism , after all -- but sometimes he drives me nuts. Andrew links without comment to Daniel's recent post informing the world that Ariel Sharon was not seeking peace when he withdrew from Gaza in 2005: One ...
Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic [Jonn]
thisainthell.us 1/11/2009 — This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguaration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans, but as you can see by the flag above, it was more an ...
Gaza Update: Breaking the Cease-fire
firedoglake.com 1/27/2009 —
There are reports of a clash on the Gaza border and unconfirmed news of one Israeli soldier killed and three wounded. At the moment it is difficult to tell what really happened. The most complete report so far is from Reuters :
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Gaza Not In Ruins
commentarymagazine.com 1/25/2009 — You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of an article buried in the middle of the Sunday New York Times before you find out that the Israeli Defense Forces are not quite the barbarians that they have been made out to be. Writes Times correspondent ...
US Pledges $1B Stimulus Package... For Gaza
mererhetoric.com 2/24/2009 — Stimulating Actually that's an exaggeration. It's only a little more than $900 million: The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's offensive against Hamas and strengthen the Palestinian Authority, a ...
No Other Option?!
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/12/2009 — I watch in shock, like the rest of the world, at the appalling death and destruction being wrought on Gaza by Israel; and still it does not stop. Meanwhile, we see a seemingly never-ending army of well-prepared Israeli war propagandists, some Israeli ...
Op-Ed Contributor: What You Don’t Know About Gaza
nytimes.com 1/8/2009 — Nearly everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Here are a few key points that seem to be missing from the conversation about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. >
Middle East envoys departs today —
First Read 1/26/2009
From NBC’s Libby LeistU.S. special Middle East envoy George Mitchell will depart today for the Middle East, the State Department said this morning.
Spokesman Robert Wood told reporters that Mitchell's trip will include stops in : Egypt, Israel, the ...
U.S. Mideast envoy says Gaza ceasefire critical —
Reuters: Politics 1/28/2009
CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. Middle East envoy, dispatched by President Barack Obama with orders to "start by listening," said on Wednesday it was critical to consolidate a Gaza ceasefire after Israel's offensive. Former Senator George Mitchell met ...
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