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haaretz.com - 1/3/2009

Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza Strip - Haaretz - Israel News

— haaretz.com — Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a large explosion in Gaza City as well as a... series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ... (more) Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...

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prospect.org - 1/1/2009

AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.

— 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 ... (more) AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.

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latimes.com - 1/2/2009

Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times

— latimes.com — It's a new year in an old and bloody world. In Israel, politicians jockeying for power have... launched the most lethal military assault on Palestinian territory in decades. Israel has justified its bombardment of Gaza on the grounds that Hamas broke a ... (more) Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times

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Israel Flattens the Homes of 20 More Hamas Leaders
Gateway Pundit — ... way to the Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as angry protests unfurled on Hamass ”day of wrath” against the blistering assault that has killed more than 420 people including senior Hamas commander Rayan and several of his wives and children. (SKY News) Israel continued to target terrorist leaders on Friday flattening the homes of 20 Hamas leaders in Gaza. The AP reported: In airstrike after airstrike early Friday, ...

The jail doors are open...as long as you were "just visiting"
Left I on the News — How thoroughly magnanimous: Israel...opened its border with Gaza to allow nearly 300 Palestinians with foreign passports to flee. Many of the evacuees were foreign-born women married to Palestinians and their children. Spouses who did not hold foreign citizenship were not allowed out.One of them had an all-too-typical tale to tell of the Israeli terrorism of those who remain imprisoned: "There is no water, no electricity, no medicine. It's hard to survive. Gaza is destroyed," Jawaher Haggi, a 14-year-old Palestinian ...

Dilemmas of Confronting Hamas
Pajamas Media — ... including a mosque in the Jebaliya refugee camp that served many functions other than worship: a storehouse for Grad and Qassam rockets, a meeting place for operatives, and a control center for terror attacks. On Thursday an Israeli warplane killed top Hamas leader Nizar Rayan , responsible among other things for a 2004 suicide bombing in the port of Ashdod that killed 10 Israelis, and apparently among the few Hamas chiefs who hadn’t already taken shelter in an underground bunker. Despite the drubbing, though, that Hamas has taken from the IAF since last Saturday, it was also ...