boston.com - 1/1/2009
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Back in June, 2008, Egypt helped broker a 6-month cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the ruling body in the Gaza Strip. Though the cease-fire was broken several times by both sides, it largely held. Toward the end of the cease-fire in December, Israel, while closing Gaza's borders ...
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
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prospect.org —
This blog is on a light schedule today
and tomorrow due to various New Years related program...
activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ...
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AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
news.yahoo.com - 1/1/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel dropped a one-ton
bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday,...
killing him along with two wives and four children in the first attack on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers. As the aerial bombardment escalated, the army ...
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Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - ...
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/31/2008
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving
that one side is righter than the other. Since...
no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you ...
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The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging
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Morning Swim: 2009, Day 1
Firedoglake —
... releases new California budget which includes cutting billions of dollars from K-12 education and shortening the school year by five days.
Anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman has died at the age of 91.
The Wife of NASA chief Michael Griffin petitions Obama not to fire her husband.
A few photo retrospectives of 2008: Reuters - New York Times - Christian Science Monitor - Denver Post - Boston Globe
A look back at prominent names that left us in 2008: Philadelphia ...
Allison Kilkenny: The Myth of Sanitary War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That's why we're seeing all of these terrible images coming out of Gaza of bloodied children, slain doctors, and hundreds of young men, who may or may not have been fighting for Hamas. "Smart bombs" and "smart missiles" did this damage because a huge explosion causes unplanned consequences. Shrapnel goes flying. Other buildings topple from the impact. The wrong buildings are bombed. Some bombs don't detonate until much later when a curious child pokes it, thinking it's a toy. ...
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Beyond any definition of “left” or “right.”
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about ...
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