weeklystandard.com - 12/29/2008
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After the expiration of a "truce" with Hamas, terror groups in Gaza pounded the Israeli south with rocket attacks. The Israeli government has responded forcefully, with waves of air strikes targeting Hamas's security infrastructure. More than 280 Palestinians, mostly Hamas members, have been ...
Israeli air strikes target Gaza
democraticunderground.com 12/27/2008 — Source: [b]BBC News[/b]
Palestinians say Israeli F-16 bombers have launched a series of air strikes against key targets in the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of people.
Missiles hit security compounds run by the militant group Hamas in ...
Attack on Gaza
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/27/2008 — The Israeli government, seemingly dissatisfied with the results of their earlier effort to just make life as miserable as possible for residents of the Gaza strip went and killed a couple of hundred people in retaliatory airstrikes. The strikes were ...
Israeli Gaza Strikes Called 'Holocaust' By Hamas
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 12/28/2008 — Here we go... The Hamas spokesmen in Gaza called the Israeli bombing attacks on government regime facilities a "massacre" and a "Holocaust" today. Ya Libnan reported: A wave of Israeli air strikes on Hamas bases in Gaza that killed more than 195 ...
It’s Already Sunday in Gaza: “IAF strikes mosque, TV station”
firedoglake.com 12/28/2008 —
Both Al Jazeera and Ha’aretz are reporting new attacks on Gaza happening now:
In the first attack early on Sunday, Palestinians said Israeli aircraft bombed a mosque near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Two bodies were retrieved from the ...
An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind
obsidianwings.blogs.com 12/29/2008 — by hilzoy
From the NYT :
"Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza for a second day on Sunday, increasing the death toll to nearly 300, as Israeli troops and tanks massed along the border and the government said it had called up reserves for a possible ...
Here's Their Playbook: The Media Blitz Justifying Gaza Attacks
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/30/2008 — Check out Dan Fleshler on the strategy to justify what Israel is doing and watch the media fall into line.
And here is The Israel Project , dedicated to separating Middle East myths from facts and propagating the myths.
And here is The New ...
Managing Gaza
counterterrorismblog.org 12/31/2008 — Israel’s operation in Gaza is reaching a critical point. While talking heads will debate grand strategy, the options are limited. Behind the headlines is the crucial issue of how Israel’s national security process works (or doesn’t ...
Speaking of Gaza
abuaardvark.com 12/28/2008 — The Arab public is expressing outrage over the Israeli bombing raids over Gaza. A significant portion of this outrage is reserved for Arab leaders, who have been largely silent and even -- in the eyes of many -- complicit in the attack. ...
Behind closed doors, U.S. seeks Israel exit strategy —
Israpundit
Washington is worried that a prolonged campaign in the Gaza Strip could bolster the Palestinian Hamas movement. It wants Israel to set a timetable.
By Paul Richter, December 31, 2008
Reporting from Washington — While publicly declaring strong support for Israel, the Bush administration ...
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War and Piece
AP: Accusing Britain of backing Israeli air strikes in Gaza, Iranian students break into British embassy in Tehran....
In Support of Israel —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
Two days ago, Israel launched a massive counter-offensive against the Hamas terrorist stronghold in Gaza. Apparently learning from the failed strategy of the Lebanon war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, the Israelis are not depending on the rationality of their enemy. Instead of ...
Palestinian photo-victimology —
Jihad Watch
AP photo caption (thanks to James):
Palestinian children and a man wounded in Israeli missile strikes are seen in the emergency area at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes demolished dozens of Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in ...
Israeli attack could impact Obama —
Ben Smith's Blog
I have a story up now looking at how the Israeli attack in Gaza may influence Obama's approach to the region:
Israel’s air strikes in Gaza end any faint hopes that President-elect Barack Obama will take office with a clear path toward Middle East peace laid out before him.
It may also ...
Can Israel deny Hamas the "victory" Hezbollah obtained? —
Power Line
Noah Pollak looks at Israel's counter-attack on Hamas in Gaza through the lens of its 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. That war was widely perceived as a failure for Israel because of Hezbollah's success in thwarting Israel from accomplishing the objectives the government announced at the ...
J Street Statement on Gaza Attack —
The Washington Note
Just received this from one of the principal shakers in the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-Peace" activist group, J-Street :
While this morning's air strikes by Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza can be understood and even justified in the wake of recent rocket attacks, we believe that real ...
Gaza op: Analysis —
Yourish.com
The rules of the game have changed .
The Israeli air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, hugely dramatic in their scope, nonetheless mark only the beginning of an ongoing, potentially lengthy operation aimed at restoring calm to the South, rather than a one-off response to the ...
Israel Launches Air Strikes on Gaza —
Drudge Retort
Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing at least 155 and wounding more than 310 in the single bloodiest day of fighting in recent memory.
Israel Air Strikes Kill 225 in Gaza —
Drudge Retort
Israeli airstrikes pounded Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 225 and injuring 400, in what Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said was a response to escalating rocket attacks against Israel.
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