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Israel Declares Cease-Fire; Hamas Says It Will Fight On
commentarymagazine.com - 1/17/2009
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The Israeli cabinet met tonight and approved a
unilateral cease-fire in Gaza set to take effect at...
2AM, Israel time. Hamas is responding to the announcement with fresh barrages of rocket fire. Israel has recently been under immense international ...
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Thoughts On The Cease-Fire
nytimes.com - 1/18/2009
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JERUSALEM Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups
in Gaza announced an immediate, week-long cease-fire in the...
conflict with Israel on Sunday, about 12 hours after an Israeli unilateral cease-fire went into effect. The Palestinian groups said in ...
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Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire
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High Road
Jules Crittenden —
[image] « Your Great Support And Readership High Road Taken by the Israelis, yet again. Hamas obligingly invites its own destruction. NYT : After 22 days of war against Hamas , and the deaths of more than 1,200 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted that “we have reached all the goals of the war, and beyond.” Speaking to the nation late Saturday night, he said that Hamas had “suffered a major blow” and that if it continued to fire rockets into Israel, “the Israeli Army will regard itself as free to respond with force.” Hamas, battered but hardly broken, said in Gaza that it would continue fighting so long as Israeli ...
Israel Ceases Fire, Hamas Continues Aggression
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Since the beginning of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict began 23 days ago, anti-Israel critics have consistently acted as if Israel alone had the power to stop the fighting any time it wanted to. United Nations officials have abandoned all pretense of neutrality, condemning Israel for the casualties that inevitably result from Hamas’ widespread use of human shields and allowing use of its facilities in Gaza as launching grounds for Hamas mortars. The global media has done its usual job of credulously accepting at face value whatever Hamas presents as truth.
Today, however, brings news that clearly demonstrates which side is the true aggressor in Gaza. While the ...
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