powerlineblog.com - 12/28/2008
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Dan Diker is a foreign policy analyst with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs . He has filed the following report with us:
Israel has launched with great precision what Israeli media are calling a "shock and awe" campaign against strategic bases, command centers and weapons depots ...
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lennybendavid.com - 12/28/2008
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lennybendavid.com —
The humanitarian assistance also served to lull Hamas
into believing that Israel was going soft. The attack...
on the Jewish Sabbath was also unexpected by Hamas. Israeli intelligence was tracking, following, and marking the Hamas leadership, terrorist ...
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I*Consult: Israel Attacks Hamas -- Here Comes the Hamas ...
blogs.tnr.com - 12/28/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
From January 1 until December 21, Hamas and
its allies had launched exactly 1,250 rockets across the...
border between Gaza and Israel. Then the escalation really started: on Wednesday 70 projectile missiles landed in the Negev and its populated areas. ...
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Very Disproportionate, Indeed
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Did Hamas' strategy backfire?
Israel Matzav —
... the most part. Their publicity stunt in ending the truce and increasing the rocket attacks threw away what success they’ve had in pushing Israel back. They may have reached the same conclusion I did in yesterday’s post — that Hamas just wants a war of annihilation, and nothing else. They may be prepared to let them have it. They’re certainly handing Hamas the blame for this war, and in public, which is a significant change in attitude for Egypt. At Powerline, Scott Johnson reaches a similar conclusion . What's clear to the Egyptians, the Palestinian Fatah leadership, the ...
Supporting Hamas is now "progressive"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... to Twitter updates at @qassamcount . Israel has few enough friends in the world community: there's a decided scarcity of those who support intellectual progress, civilization, and tolerance. [image] I think it's fair to say that we can now count the American left among Israel's enemies. But perhaps someone could explain to me how support for Hamas is now "progressive". Start the Jeopardy countdown music, Vanna. Hat tips : LGF , Gateway Pundit , Power Line and Infidel Bloggers Alliance . Labels: Democrats , extremism , ...
Ledeen: Wrong Story
Articles on National Review Online —
E veryone in the Middle East knows that the serious component of the Battle of Gaza is all about Iran. The Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, recently warned that Iran is trying to devour the Arab world . Mohammed Abdallah Al Zulfa, of the Saudi Arabian Shura Council, reminded Alhurra s viewers that Iran is the big threat in today s world, supporting all the terrorists from Hamas to Hezbollah to some other terrorists that we don t know their names yet, and that Iran destabilized the region by supporting all the illegal activities and activists ...
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