theamericanscene.com - 1/7/2009
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At the risk of wading into dangerous territory here, let me just say that I’ve enjoyed many a juicebox in my life, and I worry about casting aspersions on all those who drink from juiceboxes. Consider that many of America and Israel’s combat troops consume MRE s that sometimes ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
Having praised the new Foreign Policy site ,
let me welcome them to the blogosphere by taking...
exception to this hypothetical from new-minted FP blogger Stephen Walt, which has been mentioned favorably by Yglesias and Klein as an example of the sort ...
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A Jewish Gaza?
theweek.com - 1/8/2009
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theweek.com —
Good for Shrum for championing Israel s right
to defend itself against the Hamas rocket barrage. He...
is correct, too, that lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians abandon their hope that Israel can somehow be defeated or destroyed. ...
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Why Democrats recoil from Gaza
news.yahoo.com - 1/7/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Israel ordered a pause in
its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow...
food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country's leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or expand the assault ...
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Israel halts campaign for 3 hours to let in aid - Yahoo! ...
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No Solution
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Reihan considers a two state solution: I really wish that something like John Bolton’s fanciful scenario could work, i.e., hand over an impoverished Gaza with its poisonous political culture to an Egypt that has more than enough on its plate, and hand some slice of the West Bank to a Jordanian state that warily eyes its restive Palestinian majority, all while Israel’s increasingly radicalized Arab minority (many of them self-identified “Israeli Palestinians”) look on. But it clearly won’t. The effort to unmake the Palestinian ...
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