gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 1/6/2009
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Israeli forces hit targets near a UN school in Gaza today. The AP reported: Palestinian medical officials say at least three people are dead in an Israeli airstrike near a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip. It is the second deadly Israeli airstrike to hit a UN school in the past few hours. ...
haaretz.com - 1/6/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to
40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the...
Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. The attack brought the Palestinian death toll to nearly 600 in Israel's 11-day offensive on ...
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40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
I spent the morning at a lecture organized
by GWU's outstanding Homeland Security Policy Institute's Ambassador's Roundtable...
Series featuring Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor. It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because ...
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"We have no grand political scheme"
jta.org - 1/6/2009
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jta.org —
Top Democrats are planning to introduce a nonbinding
congressional resolution supporting Israel's goal in its Gaza Strip...
operation.
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Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
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Bleeding, Leading
Jules Crittenden —
... is reporting the tank fire on a UN school could have killed 40. No mention of what might have prompted Israeli tanks to fire at a school. Gateway , in case you were wondering, here’s vid of Hamas using UN schools as missile launchpads. ...
Dastardly Israelis Bomb United Nations School!
Snapped Shot —
... the scene to cover the Israeli-caused carnage, but in all of the coverage I've seen so far, not a single press agency seems to be bothered enough to ask if Hamas was launching rockets from the school.
Because, you know, little facts like whether or not a terrorist group committed a war crime are apparently not relevant to the news story.
(For an example of Hamas using a UN School as a rocket-launching platform, please see the video here. We covered it way back when, as well, but Jim remembered it first, ...
True Evil Exposed: The Gaza School Incidents
A Blog For All —
... Israel may have opened fire on Hamas operating in close proximity to the school, and by the looks of it, used limited firepower in the process. The only sources providing details on who was killed or injured in the attack are Palestinians, who aren't exactly going to say that Hamas thugs were involved. As a vivid reminder of what Israel is up against, here's Hamas busy firing kassams from outside a Gaza school in 2007. Some things don't change. They're still at it today: More at Gateway Pundit . Hamas is also purposefully dragging children to be human shields in their war ...
Hamas Bears Responsibility for Deaths in Gaza
GayPatriot —
... The world may blame Israel for bombing a school and killing civilians seeking shelter there, but Hamas bears the ultimate responsibility for their deaths as it ...
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