blogs.tnr.com - 1/15/2009
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Jeffrey Goldberg has a fantastic New York Times op-ed on Hamas today.Calling it an "op-ed" doesn't do it justice, because it's filled with great scene reporting with some truly bizarre, twisted characters. You should definitely read the piece just for the up-close look at Hamas, but ...
israelnationalnews.com - 1/16/2009
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israelnationalnews.com —
(IsraelNN.com) "Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at
worst Israel will come and do something from the...
air - superficial." The so-called "Iranian Unit" of Hamas has been destroyed, according to Gaza sources cited Thursday by the Haaretz daily. The ...
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"Iranian Unit" Destroyed, Hamas was Suprised - ...
jpost.com - 1/19/2009
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jpost.com —
In a speech broadcast on Hamas television on
Sunday night, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said the...
Palestinians had achieved a historical and strategic victory over Israel, and claimed that Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip had ...
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Haniyeh: We have achieved victory | Middle East | ...
jpost.com - 1/19/2009
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jpost.com —
A day after Hamas announced a truce with
Israel, a spokesman for Izzadin Kassam, the group's military...
wing, stressed that Hamas will continue to rearm despite efforts to stop the weapon smuggling into the Gaza Strip. "Do what you like, but the ...
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Hamas: We will continue to smuggle weapons into Strip | ...
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The Dissonance
Matthew Yglesias —
... as “hands down the best thing I’ve read since the Gaza conflict started.” Jon Chait deemed it “fantastic” and recommended this conclusion especially: ...
Weekend Opinionator: The Battle Over the Battle in Gaza
Opinionator —
... . My, isn’t the Internet a chummy little place? It’s not that there were no positive reactions to Goldberg’s Op-Ed. The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait wrote that “Calling it an ‘op-ed’ doesn’t do it justice, because it’s filled with great scene reporting with some truly bizarre, twisted characters. You should definitely read the piece just for the up-close look at Hamas, but Goldberg’s conclusion is also pretty sensible.” And his fellow Plank-ite Noam Scheiber called it ...
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