lefarkins.blogspot.com - 12/30/2008
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The New York Times shows the stupid: But it has another goal as well: to expunge the ghost of its flawed 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and re-establish Israeli deterrence....“There has been a nagging sense of uncertainty in the last couple years of whether anyone is really afraid of ...
haaretz.com - 12/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
Three days into Operation Cast Lead, Israel is
proposing a diplomatic exit. A ground operation likely looms...
in an effort to increase the pressure on Hamas. At the same time, however, others argue that the air force is close to exhausting its target ...
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ANALYSIS / Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground ...
jpost.com - 12/29/2008
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jpost.com —
Defense Minister and Labor chairman Ehud Barak on
Monday said that Israel would expand its military operation...
in the Gaza Strip until all the goals were achieved. He spoke at a special Knesset session attended, among others, by Foreign Minister Tzipi ...
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Barak: This is 'all out war' on Hamas | Israel | ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 12/29/2008
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If someone was sending rockets on my house
where my daughters were sleeping at night, I would...
do everything to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing. These aren't my words -- they're Barack Obama's. But I attach myself to this ...
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The Gaza War
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The Evil and the Foolish
The Moderate Voice —
... , gives four reasons to be skeptical that anything good will come out of Israel’s operation, while nonetheless noting that the operation itself has been quite discriminating and has done a good job minimizing civilian casualties. His arguments — particularly the problems with “sending a message” — make sense to me. We might still understand why the government is behaving “as expected”, and we might affirm that, in terms of moral judgment, we shouldn’t hold Israel morally liable for a ...
Israel vs Hamas: Beyond right, wrong, smart, and stupid
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , gives four reasons to be skeptical that anything good will come out of Israel’s operation, while nonetheless noting that the operation itself has been quite discriminating and has done a good job minimizing civilian casualties. His arguments — particularly the problems with “sending a message” — make sense to me. We might still understand why the government is behaving “as expected”, and we might affirm that, in terms of moral judgment, we shouldn’t hold Israel morally liable for a ...
The Might of Nation-States, The Temperaments of Ten-Year-Olds
Comments from Left Field —
The New York Times wowed everyone yesterday with its analysis of foreign policy at a third-grade level:
“In the cabinet room today there was an energy, a feeling that after so long of showing restraint we had finally acted,” said Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking of the weekly government meeting that he attended.
Mark Heller, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that that energy reflected the deep feeling among ...
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