haaretz.com - 1/2/2009
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No one knew Israel better than Nizar Ghayan. A professor at the Islamic University in Gaza City, as well as the most respected Hamas military and spiritual strategist since the 2004 assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, no one knew better than Ghayan the maxim he taught his ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
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prospect.org —
This blog is on a light schedule today
and tomorrow due to various New Years related program
activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ...
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AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
news.yahoo.com - 1/1/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel dropped a one-ton
bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday,
killing him along with two wives and four children in the first attack on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers. As the aerial bombardment escalated, the army ...
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Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - ...
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Hugh Hewitt: Toppling Hamas
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston has penned a must-read analysis of how the Gaza war demonstrates the deep change in the Middle East conflict into one that also involves the future of Islam, not just of Israel . "The world however, is no longer accepting Hamas' hydra-headed PR role as, at one and the same time, a humanitarian NGO, a sovereign government, and a resistance [read, terrorist] organization," writes Burston. "And many Palestinians, grieved and furious as they are over the civilian deaths in Israeli air raids, are coming to the same conclusion." The PLA, Egypt and ...
Hugh Hewitt: Toppling Hamas
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston has penned a must-read analysis of how the Gaza war demonstrates the deep change in the Middle East conflict into one that also involves the future of Islam, not just of Israel . "The world however, is no longer accepting Hamas' hydra-headed PR role as, at one and the same time, a humanitarian NGO, a sovereign government, and a resistance [read, terrorist] organization," writes Burston. "And many Palestinians, grieved and furious as they are over the civilian deaths in Israeli air raids, are coming to the same conclusion." The PLA, Egypt and ...
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It’s Already Sunday in Gaza: “IAF strikes mosque, TV station”
firedoglake.com 12/28/2008 —
Both Al Jazeera and Ha’aretz are reporting new attacks on Gaza happening now:
In the first attack early on Sunday, Palestinians said Israeli aircraft bombed a mosque near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Two bodies were retrieved from the ...
Israel Masses Troops, Tanks For Possible Ground Invasion
huffingtonpost.com 12/28/2008 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes pressing one of Israel's deadliest assaults ever on Palestinian militants dropped bombs and missiles on a top security installation and dozens of other targets across Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sunday.
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Israeli assault targets symbols of Hamas power
huffingtonpost.com 12/29/2008 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel's air force obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of its overwhelming assault on Gaza on Monday, striking a house next to the Hamas premier's home, devastating a security compound and flattening a ...
TERRORISTS HIT BEERSHEBA WITH ROCKET!... 40 KM From Gaza
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 1/1/2009 — For the first time-- Terrorists hit Beersheba with rocket fire from Gaza reaching deeper into Israel than ever before . A wounded Israeli soldier is wheeled into a hospital in the southern city of Beersheba after a rocket fired by Palestinian ...
Israeli aircraft kill senior Hamas figure
huffingtonpost.com 1/2/2009 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas says one of its top figures has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
This is the first time aircraft have targeted a senior member of Gaza's Hamas rulers since Israel launched a bruising offensive on the ...
Israel Blasts Hamas Targets, Diplomacy Gains Steam
huffingtonpost.com 1/3/2009 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers ...
A Geometry Problem —
Classical Values
Interesting developments in Gaza today. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive...
Gaza: the many wives of Nizar Ghayan —
Roger L. Simon
One of the more puzzling viewpoints of our cultural relativist and (self-described) progressive friends is that they insist on telling us that values of the East… or more specifically the Islamic Middle East… are just as good as ours, while at the same time reminding us of the ...
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