jpost.com - 1/8/2009
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Hundreds of thousands of Syrians swarmed downtown Damascus Thursday in a government-orchestrated rally to protest Israel's military offensive against the Gaza Strip. It was the biggest protest ever in the Syrian capital since Israel launched an air and ground offensive on the Hamas-ruled Gaza ...
time.com - 1/8/2009
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time.com —
Soldiers on patrol at Kibbutz Nir Am, a
mile from Gaza. Even after the start of Israel's...
Jan. 4 ground offensive, communities near the border remained vulnerable to Hamas' rockets.
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Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
timesonline.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
A question mark hangs over Pope Benedict XVI's
planned trip to Israel in May after Israeli officials...
expressed outrage over a Vatican statement comparing Gaza to a "big concentration camp". The Pope today condemned the use of violence by both Israel ...
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'Concentration camp' remark threatens Pope's visit to ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip I live alone in
my office. My wife and two young children moved...
in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. All the government ...
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AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble - Yahoo! News
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Hugh Hewitt: The Rockets from Lebanon
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Three rockets from Lebanon struck in northern Israel, and the IDF immediately categorized them as a "minor event." The Israeli response is a small but telling detail from the last many years. Israel does not want war. Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north are compelled by their fanaticism to seek war. Israel is provoked, and declines to respond. But if provoked again and again, or in a very serious way such as the kidnapping of an IDF soldier, Israel goes over to the offensive. The the "international community" begins a round of condemnation of Israel. How about the Security Council and the EU and all the other usual suspects move immediately to condemn Hezbollah ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Rockets from Lebanon
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
Three rockets from Lebanon struck in northern Israel, and the IDF immediately categorized them as a "minor event." The Israeli response is a small but telling detail from the last many years. Israel does not want war. Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north are compelled by their fanaticism to seek war. Israel is provoked, and declines to respond. But if provoked again and again, or in a very serious way such as the kidnapping of an IDF soldier, Israel goes over to the offensive. The the "international community" begins a round of condemnation of Israel. How about the Security Council and the EU and all the other usual suspects move immediately to condemn Hezbollah ...
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