haaretz.com - 1/4/2009
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An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed in a gunbattle with Gaza militants on Sunday as the army deepened its ground offensive against the coastal strip's Hamas rulers. The death of Sergeant Dvir Emmanueloff, 22, who was killed during a firefight in northern Gaza's densely populated Jabalya ...
forward.com - 1/3/2009
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forward.com —
Opinion Wars sicken me, even wars that I
support. I support Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but watching...
it on TV — the images of bombed-out buildings, crying women and, inevitably, the bodies of innocent bystanders — is a painful experience. I suspect ...
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On Gaza, Sense and Centrism
juancole.com - 1/4/2009
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juancole.com —
With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have
entered the age of micro-wars. The first wars that...
Israel fought with its Arab neighbors were conventional struggles in which infantry, artillery, armor and air forces played central roles. Israel's ...
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Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 1/3/2009
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attackerman.firedoglake.com —
The invasion of Gaza has begun . As
the bombardment of Gaza has failed to break Palestinian...
"will," now the gamble is that ground troops will. According to Ha'aretz , a significant portion of Israeli "top commanders" dissented ...
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Gaza: An Israeli Step Back would be the Truer “Success”
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In Memory of Dvir Emanueloff
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
Haaretz reports: An Israeli soldier was killed in a gunbattle with Gaza militants on Sunday, the first fatality suffered by Israel since it launched a ground operation on Saturday night against the coastal territory's Hamas rulers. The soldier, from the Israel Defense Forces Golani infantry brigade, was killed in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The fallen soldier was identified as Staff Sergeant Dvir Emmanueloff, 22, from Givat Ze'ev, near Jerusalem. King David's lament, from II Samuel 1, ...
A transcendental irony
Preemptive Karma —
... January 04, 2009 A transcendental irony Irony of ironies: Israel's first aknowledged military death in the invasion of Gaza was a resident of the ...
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