abcnews.go.com - 12/30/2008
—
Israel's blistering attack against Hamas leaders and institutions in the Gaza Strip intensified Monday, as airstrikes continued along the Israeli-Palestinian border. The Israeli government escalated its rhetoric, when Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for an "all-out war" to "the bitter end ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
—
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 ...
(more)
Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
—
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 ...
(more)
AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
commentarymagazine.com - 1/3/2009
—
commentarymagazine.com —
While much of the world engages in hand-wringing,
placard-waving, teeth-gnashing, and rocket-launching over Israel’s “disproportionate” response to...
Hamas attacks from Gaza, it’s worth looking at what the doctrines of “proportionality” actually ...
(more)
Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict
Comments
Blog Reactions
The hopelessness in Gaza-Israel relationship
The Moderate Voice —
This is it:
As for the Palestinians, they plan to declare victory regardless of what happens. If the IDF withdraws rapidly, without a ground operation and without having seriously reduced the rocket fire, Hamas will boast that it survived and Israel blinked first.
But Hamas officials and analysts said Monday that the organization would actually like Israel to launch a ground operation; it hopes this would let it inflict such heavy losses on Israeli tanks and infantry that Israel would flee with its tail between its legs.
Coupled with Ehud Barak declaring that ...
Gaza Attacks: Murder with Impunity
Antiwar.com Original —
I t was about midnight last Sunday when my phone rang. "I'm not sure I will survive tonight, the Israelis are bombing us everywhere." It was Mahmoud, a young resident of Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt. We first met when I visited the troubled coastal territory after Israel dismantled its settlements there in September 2005. On December 27, just before midday, Israel's powerful air force, the fourth largest in the world, commenced a deadly air assault on over 40 separate locations in the Gaza Strip. The strikes were as calculated as they were cold the targets were almost entirely people and facilities vital to the Hamas ...
Related Content
Operation Cast Lead: Day 14
lawhawk.blogspot.com 1/9/2009 — Hamas has repeatedly stated that it would never accept a ceasefire, so why do headlines continue to equivocate between Israel and Hamas both refusing to stop fighting? Hamas continues attacks against Israel, and the Israelis are supposed to sit back ...
Support the Palestinians, Support Israel
gatesofvienna.blogspot.com 1/25/2009 — Below is an op-ed by Poul Højlund from yesterday’s Jyllands-Posten , translated from the Danish by Henrik Ræder Clausen : Support the Palestinians, support Israel The brutal truth is that Gaza has become a lawless Hell on Earth, and that Hamas is ...
Be Careful What You Wish For
newshoggers.com 1/10/2009 — by Eric Martin
Marc Lynch, writing at his fancy new digs , passes along this disturbing account of a lecture he attended given by Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor:
It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because if ...
Be Careful What You Wish For
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/12/2009 — by Eric Martin
Marc Lynch, writing at his fancy new digs , passes along this disturbing account of a lecture he attended given by Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor: It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because if ...
FrontPage Magazine
frontpagemagazine.com 1/16/2009 — Israel hasn't killed a single civilian in the Gaza Strip. Over a hundred civilians have died, and Israeli bombs or shells may have ended their lives. But Israel didn't kill them. Hamas did. It's time to smash the lies. The lies of Hamas. The UN lies. ...
Gaza: A Real History
boomantribune.com 1/10/2009 — Disregarding concerns from Israeli officials, President Bush pushed for Palestinian elections in early January 2006. A White House spokesman made it clear meanwhile that President Bush wanted the elections to go ahead as scheduled, and for voting to ...
Calling Hamas, part 2
powerlineblog.com 12/28/2008 — Haaretz carries an informative account of the planning that went into Israel's current offensive (Operation Cast Lead) in Gaza. Haaretz's account emphasizes the intelligence-gathering underlying the operation:
[Defense Minister Ehud] Barak gave ...
A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza
michaeltotten.com 2/1/2009 — Khaled Abu Toameh is not your typical Palestinian journalist. He began his career at one of Yasser Arafat's newspapers and today he writes for the Jerusalem Post . He has produced video for European TV stations, and even blogged for a while at ...
Israel: Fighting 'could get worse' —
First Read 12/29/2008
From NBC’s Libby Leist In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert 's spokesman Mark Regev said that the conflict in Gaza "could get worse before it gets better..." as Israel continues striking Hamas ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
