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juancole.com - 1/4/2009

Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars

— juancole.com — With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have entered the age of micro-wars. The first wars that... Israel fought with its Arab neighbors were conventional struggles in which infantry, artillery, armor and air forces played central roles. Israel's ... (more) Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars

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walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009

Stephen M. Walt | A FOREIGN POLICY blog

— walt.foreignpolicy.com — Over at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald has posted some typically sharp and forceful comments on the gap between... American public opinion on the conflict in Gaza and the public stance taken by our politicians. Citing a recent Rasmussen poll , he shows that ... (more) Stephen M. Walt | A FOREIGN POLICY blog

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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009

Proportionality And Terror

— 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 ... (more) Proportionality And Terror

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A rift on the Jewish left
Ben Smith's Blog — ... A rift, however, has opened on the Jewish left, where a top Reform rabbi blasted the words of a new peace group, J Street, as "morally deficient." The conflict is an early test of whether the domestic dynamics, which include a quite weak peace movement, will continue under Obama, and who will wind up speaking most prominently for American Jews in the Obama era. There are some newer, dovish voices fighting for traction, including J Street, whose controversial statement calling for an end to the conflict said: ...

Tearing Up J Street
Weekly Standard Blog — ... in the Forward to a statement that J Street posted equating Israel and Hamas and finding both equally guilty. He wrote: ...