news.yahoo.com - 1/4/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip With booms from artillery and airstrikes keeping them awake, the 10 members of Lubna Karam's family spent the night huddled in the hallway of their Gaza City home. Earlier strikes shattered the living room windows, letting cold air pour in. The Karams haven't had ...
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 ...
juancole.com - 1/4/2009
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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 ...
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Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 1/3/2009
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attackerman.firedoglake.com —
The invasion of Gaza has begun . As
the bombardment of Gaza has failed to break Palestinian...
"will," now the gamble is that ground troops will. According to Ha'aretz , a significant portion of Israeli "top commanders" dissented ...
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Gaza: An Israeli Step Back would be the Truer “Success”
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Gaza Crisis & Barack Obama’s Silence
The Moderate Voice —
... Meanwhile, the Gaza ground offensives will put Israeli soldiers, Gaza militants and civilians in much closer quarters. Israeli military correspondent Alex Fishman wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronoth. “We’ll pay the international price later for the collateral damage and the anticipated civilian casualties,” Fishman said. More here… ...
Is Israel Using Cluster Munitions On Urban Areas?
Newshoggers.com —
... Livni, that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Ging also accused Israel of a campaign of destroying public buildings vital to the administration and governance of Gaza.
"The whole infrastructure of the future state of Palestine is being destroyed," he said. "Blowing up the parliament building. That's the parliament of Palestine. That's not a Hamas building. The president's compound is for the president of Palestine. Schools, mosques."
This is collective punishment by design.
"When there was a siege, we kept taking ...
Is Israel Using Cluster Munitions On Urban Areas? (Updated)
Newshoggers.com —
... Livni, that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Ging also accused Israel of a campaign of destroying public buildings vital to the administration and governance of Gaza.
"The whole infrastructure of the future state of Palestine is being destroyed," he said. "Blowing up the parliament building. That's the parliament of Palestine. That's not a Hamas building. The president's compound is for the president of Palestine. Schools, mosques."
This is collective punishment by design.
"When there was a siege, we kept taking ...
A transcendental irony
Preemptive Karma —
... area. For your own safety, you are asked to leave the area immediately. " It was unclear where the residents were supposed to go; Gaza is tiny, and no part of the strip, home to 1.5 million people, has been spared from attack. Border crossings have been sealed for everyone except 220 foreigners and a small number of Palestinians in need of immediate medical help. (emphasis supplied) Israel claims that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and offers as proof the fact that they are allowing supplies into the territory . But allowing supplies through a border checkpoint does ...
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