jpost.com - 1/19/2009
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Israel made this plan known at a dinner Sunday with European leaders who were in the region in an effort to consolidate the fragile cease-fire that Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers declared on Sunday after a three-week Israeli offensive. The pullout could only be carried out if militants ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the
United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday,...
setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel 's ...
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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
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haaretz.com - 1/19/2009
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haaretz.com —
The Israel Defense Forces began a partial withdrawal
of ground troops from the Gaza Strip on Sunday...
evening, hours after ending a three-week offensive on the Hamas-ruled coastal territory. The move also came shortly after Gaza's Hamas rulers announced ...
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IDF begins Gaza troop withdrawal, hours ...
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Egypt Tells Israel “You Lost”
Firedoglake —
Well, well, well... (h/t Sic Semper Tyrannis):
Mubarak also said Egypt would call for an international meeting to discuss post-war reconstruction in the Palestinian coastal enclave.
He said his country would not agree to the presence of foreign observers on its soil to monitor the border with Gaza...
Egyptian Foreign ...
Did the Obama administration force Israel to stop Cast Lead?
Israel Matzav —
Did the Obama administration force Israel to stop Cast Lead? [image] There's a deeply disturbing headline that all three Israeli newspapers with English web sites share this morning. The JPost headlines " Officials: Troop pullout to end before Obama inauguration ." Haaretz didn't put it in the headline , but notes Israeli officials have said that troops would withdraw completely before Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday as the new U.S. president. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been publicly announced. Government spokesman Mark Regev would not confirm the timetable. He said only that if Gaza remains quiet Israel's ...
Goals and Objectives
A Blog For All —
It is my sincere belief that Israel stopped its campaign against Hamas far too soon. Hamas was on the ropes, and foreign policy needs to ensure that the operation was completed by the inauguration of Barack Obama was an arbitrary and capricious decision that will actually serve to extend the conflict since Hamas will come back at some point to resume its rocket war with Israel that never ended. The journalists are busy ...
Obama tried to stop Operation Cast Lead?
Israel Matzav —
Obama tried to stop Operation Cast Lead? [image] Over at the Jawa Report, Stable Hand blogs an article that claims that then-President-elect Barack Hussein Obama tried to stop Israel's Operation Cast Lead in January. If true, Obama erred when saying "there is only one president at a time" when questioned about Israel's Gaza offensive before his inauguration: Despite Barack Obama's persistent pledges as president-elect that he would not meddle in foreign affairs while President Bush was in office, a new report in The New Yorker claims that his transition team worked to persuade Israel to end its offensive in the Gaza Strip before Inauguration Day. The article ...
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Joe The Plumber Files First Reports From Israel On Gaza Crisis
huffingtonpost.com 1/12/2009 — SDEROT, Israel — Joe the Plumber has set aside his wrenches to become a rookie war correspondent, covering Israel's side of its two-week-old military offensive in Gaza.
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Anti-Semitism Sweeps Europe in Wake of Gaza Operation
brusselsjournal.com 1/18/2009 —
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War in Gaza Update- Ceasefire Edition
wwwjackbenimble.blogspot.com 1/18/2009 — Welcome to the War in Gaza Update #19. Previous editions of the round up can be found below: 1 * 2 * 3 * 3.5 * 4 * 4.5 * 5 * 5.5 * 6 * 6.5 * 7 * 7.5 * 8 * 8.5 .* 9 , * 9.5 , * 10, * 10.5 , * 11 , * 11.5 , * 12 , * 12.5 , * 13 , * 13.5 , * 14 , * 14.5 ...
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Venezuela’s Jews close their schools
Brener, 77, who spoke with The Jerusalem Post by telephone from New York, said that Jewish schools in Caracas closed for few days out of concern that they would attract ...
UN wants all Gaza borders opened
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/21/2009
AP - U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said Tuesday that he's heading to Gaza and a top priority will be to get all border crossings opened not only for food and medicine but for desperately needed construction materials which Israel has refused ...
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