latimes.com - 1/6/2009
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From Damascus -- While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the Israeli-Palestinian truce was still in effect but global attention was turned to the U.S. elections, Israel ...
israelnationalnews.com - 1/6/2009
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israelnationalnews.com —
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Az-Zahar claimed victory for
Hamas on Monday, saying Hamas had succeeded in “destroying...
Israel's sense of security” with its rocket attacks. Zahar made his proclamation in video footage sent from a secret ...
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Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children - ...
jpost.com - 1/6/2009
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jpost.com —
As the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip
entered its 10th day, Hamas has begun sending conflicting...
messages regarding its intentions. These contradictory messages, Palestinian political analysts said, reflected the state of confusion in Hamas and raised ...
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Analysis: Hamas desperate for lull | Middle East | ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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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 ...
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NSN Daily Update 1/6/09
democracyarsenal.org —
... to Darfur. The United States considers an expensive change to adopt global financial accounting rules. Vice President-elect Joe Biden will take a fact-finding trip to Southwest Asia this week, in his capacity as a senator. Commentary of the Day Debate continues about the fighting in Gaza with Richard Cohen pulling no punches, and a Hamas spokesperson making their case in the LA Times. Martin Peretz writes in TNR on the ...
Deported Hamas Terrorist Now an LA Times Columnist
Little Green Footballs —
... Leading Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook, deported from the United States in 1997, gets back into the US via a column in the Los Angeles Times: Hamas speaks. ...
A Terrorist Speaks — in the L.A. Times
Patterico's Pontifications —
Want the terrorist perspective? The L.A. Times is happy to provide it, with an op-ed by a Hamas terrorist.
Israel, you see, is supposed to sit still after 300,000 of its residents have spent 8 years being subjected to this:
Tom Hayden: Obama's Silence
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... to power. It is immoral to squeeze the whole Gaza population into collective suffering by the blockade. It is impossible to "destroy" Hamas without guaranteeing the rise of another Palestinian resistance movement, just as Hezbollah was born in the ashes of Lebanon in 1982. And it is simply not true that negotiations between implacable adversaries must be considered forever off the table. As a Hamas spokesman wrote this week, discussions with former President Jimmy Carter have been "a refreshing exchange", despite Carter's vocal differences with Hamas. As Obama pointed out in ...
LATimes Prints Hamas Terrorist's Op Ed
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Amazingly, on January 6, the L. A. Times gave ample space to a Hamas terrorist to "explain" how the current Gaza action is all Israel's fault. Mousa Abu Marzook the purported "deputy of the political bureau of Hamas," the group called an "Islamic Resistance Movement," shamefacedly claims that Israel's actions shattered "any incentive by Palestinian leaders to enforce the moratorium on rocket fire." ...
LATimes Prints Hamas Terrorist’s Op Ed
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] Amazingly, on January 6, the L. A. Times gave ample space to a Hamas terrorist to “explain” how the current Gaza action is all Israel’s fault. Mousa Abu Marzook the purported “deputy of the political bureau of Hamas,” the group called an “Islamic Resistance Movement,” shamefacedly claims that Israel’s actions shattered “any incentive by Palestinian leaders to enforce the moratorium on rocket fire.” First of all, these Palestinian “leaders” have for the last seven years now expended little effort to stop the incessant rocket fire into Israel to ...
Hamas to CSM: We won’t stop firing rockets, even with a truce
Yourish.com —
... If that name sounds familiar to you, it’s because the Los Angeles Times let Marzook use their op-ed page to present his lies that Hamas is an organization that Israel simply refuses to treat with. Seven days ago, Marzook wrote this: ...
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Bush and Obama Consulted on Gaza —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/6/2009
John D. McKinnon reports on the White House.
President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama discussed the situation in Gaza briefly during a telephone call on New Years Day, the White House confirmed. That appeared to suggest ...
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