reuters.com - 12/27/2008
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 227 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state. Hamas vowed revenge including suicide bomb attacks in the "cafes and streets" of Israel, ...
Why They Fight —
Matthew Yglesias
To return to the unpleasant question of Gaza, Jon Chait had a post the other day explaining that the kind of bloodshed and suffering the Israelis are afflicting is okay because of the asymetric subjective desires of the parties to the conflict:
Israel has a problem with Hamas because Hamas ...
Support the 'Buy Israeli' Campaign —
The Jawa Report
Although the Hamas / Israel conflict in Gaza is taking place on the other side of the world, there's a whole lot you can do to support Israel from your own home. One of the most tangible ways you can...
Pro-Hamas Article of the Day —
Little Green Footballs
At the Times of London, William Sieghart asks, “ What’s so bad about Hamas? ”
His solution to the conflict:
It is said that this conflict is impossible to solve. In fact, it is very simple. The top 1,000 people who run Israel - the politicians, generals and security ...
More on the Gaza Conflict —
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
Robert Farley at LGM does a good job of spelling out the basic issues in the current Israel-Hamas conflict that I was getting at, albeit more briefly, in my previous post .
Let me be very straight-forward about an essential element that needs to be at the heart of any discussion of any ...
Kuby to Obama: Say Something! —
The Latest on Air America
OK, so Obama is on vacation. I am too. But the sight of President-elect Obama golfing while Gaza turns into a charnel house is, well, unsettling. It is not very "changey."
I recognize that we have only one President at a time (the current one, GW, is also on vacation). But ...
Issues of Proportionality —
Israpundit
Responding to Hamas Attacks from Gaza –
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Main Points:
? Israel is in a conflict not of its own making – indeed it withdrew every Israeli soldier and all 8000 Israeli civilians from the Gaza Strip as part of its 2005 disengagement initiative. However, ...
Obama’s silence of convenience on Gaza risks Muslim anger —
Flopping Aces
It was just yesterday that I noted Obama’s silence on the Gaza conflict left questions as to what his admin’s stance would be towards Israel - a longtime US ally - and Hamas, a US designated terror group. His refusal to make a public comment - supporting our current POTUS’s ...
The Complicated Nature of the Israel-Gaza Conflict —
PoliGazette
Shortly after Israel started its major (air) offensive against Hamas targets in Gaza, Arab leaders instantly condemned the Jewish nation-state for its “aggression.” At the same time, however, Jordan and Egypt, two key Arab states and nominal friends of Israel, made clear to Hamas ...
Gaza Crisis First Test For Obama —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Warfare between Israel and Hamas will put pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to fulfill a campaign pledge to focus on the Palestinian conflict at a time when his agenda will already be overflowing with Iraq, Afghanistan and the economic crisis.
Israel is following up its response to ...
Gaza Crisis First Test For Obama —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Warfare between Israel and Hamas will put pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to fulfill a campaign pledge to focus on the Palestinian conflict at a time when his agenda will already be overflowing with Iraq, Afghanistan and the economic crisis.
Israel is following up its response to ...
Gaza Crisis Another Challenge for Obama —
The Page by Mark Halperin
New York Times: In the case of Israel and the Palestinians, Mr. Obama has not suggested he has any better ideas than President Bush had to resolve the existential conflict between the Israelis and Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza.
AND from WSJ: The polarized environment ...
Win-Win for Hamas —
Gates of Vienna
The behind-the-scenes Pallywood photos at right are a reminder of the nature of the conflict between Israel and “Palestine”. There is no doubt that civilians in Gaza are suffering in the current conflict. Civilians suffer in every conflict. But the nature and extent of that suffering will not ...
Israel: Fighting 'could get worse' —
First Read
From NBC’s Libby Leist In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert 's spokesman Mark Regev said that the conflict in Gaza "could get worse before it gets better..." as Israel continues striking Hamas ...
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