huffingtonpost.com - 1/2/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas says one of its top figures has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
This is the first time aircraft have targeted a senior member of Gaza's Hamas rulers since Israel launched a bruising offensive on the Palestinian territory on Saturday.
Hamas ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 1/2/2009
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com —
Nizzar Rayyan, the Hamas leader who was killed,
along with two of his wives and several of
his children, in an Israeli bombing raid earlier this week, was one of the more bellicose Hamas leaders I have known. I saw him last in Gaza two years ago, at a ...
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Nizar Rayyan of Hamas on God's Hatred of Jews
news.yahoo.com - 1/1/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel dropped a one-ton
bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday,
killing him along with two wives and four children in the first attack on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers. As the aerial bombardment escalated, the army ...
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Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/3/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes and
gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday,
including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers ...
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Israel Blasts Hamas Targets, Diplomacy Gains Steam
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Weekly Standard Blog —
... in each of Israel's major wars since its independence. In Israel's current fight in Gaza, against a terrorist organization rather than a state actor, air power alone seems even less likely to produce a successful outcome. The great failure of the 2006 war in Lebanon was an overreliance on air power, and in Afghanistan in late 2001, the same problem contributed to the escape of al Qaeda's leadership from Tora Bora. Still, there aren't many instances of air power used to the effect of this report now coming out of Gaza: ...
From Pelosi to Oshry: Zero Degrees of Separation
Whiskey Fire —
... , who reads this story, which ends with this line: "A man cradled the burned, limp body of a child he pulled from the rubble," and then muses: ...
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Bush calls Hamas attacks an 'act of terror' —
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