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Israeli troops invade Gaza - Yahoo! News Photos
news.yahoo.com - 1/13/2009
Israeli troops invade Gaza - Yahoo! News Photos
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News Home Help Israeli troops invade Gaza Play Slideshow Pause Slow Med Fast Photo Gallery Hardline demonstrators burn posters of U.S. President-elect ... Reuters Tue Jan 13, 10:13 AM ET Previous 174 of 406 Next Hardline demonstrators burn posters of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, during a ...
Gaza War Protest
zombietime.com - 1/12/2009
Gaza War Protest
— zombietime.com — Gaza War Protest and Anti-Israel Rally San Francisco, January 10, 2009 On Saturday, January 10, 2009, a... large rally and march took place in San Francisco to protest Israel's invasion of Gaza. The event was one of a series of similar events held in ... (more) Gaza War Protest

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Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies
jpost.com - 1/12/2009
Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies
— jpost.com — Hamas on Monday raided some 100 aid trucks that Israel had allowed into Gaza, stole their contents... and sold them to the highest bidders. The IDF said that since terminal activity is coordinated with UNRWA and the Red Cross, Israel could do nothing to ... (more) Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies

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timesonline.co.uk - 1/12/2009
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime
— timesonline.co.uk — ISRAEL has sought to justify its military attacks on Gaza by stating that it amounts to an... act of self-defence as recognised by Article 51, United Nations Charter. We categorically reject this contention. The rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas ... (more) Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence ...

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Wizbang:  A Bridge to Farce

RIGHTWINGSPARKLE:  Hillary's confirmation

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A Bridge to Farce
Wizbang — ... The latest incarnation is from soon-to-be-diplomatically-engaged Iran: Hardline demonstrators burn posters of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, during a demonstration in support of the people of Gaza, in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran January 13, 2009. Here's the rub - Iran is not at all like the US. Protesters upset over the Gaza offensive over here are free to burn things and extol the need for larger ovens without being tossed in a political prison. Protesters in Iran are not so lucky. If their message doesn't conform to the mullahs' sensibilities they can be ...

Hillary's confirmation
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... *Update: Speaking of Iran, I don't think they like Obama anymore than they did Bush. I thought all this was supposed to "change?" (via NRO)

This Isn't The Script We Were Sold
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Protestors in Iran burn images of The One. Update: From a reader: Note Reuters photo description.... "Hardline demonstrators". Adjective to show these people are crazy, unlike those who burned pictures of Bush. ...

Hate crime, or blasphemy?
Cold Fury — Gee, guess that whole “ restore America’s international stature ” thing was just so much community-based-reality moonshine. But if this doesn’t at last force Nutrooters and other Barrackolytes to realize that Iran is and will remain an enemy of this country no matter what, then nothing will.… Yeah, yeah, I know. Nothing will. It’s all the Jews fault, or Bush’s, or…well, somedamnedthing. Update!“I can’t wait to see all the people who so recently praised the piece of shit Iraqi who threw a shoe at President Bush suddenly decide how uncool all of this is.” ...

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — Obama backed same-sex marriage in 1996. Continetti thinks impeaching Blagojevich creates more problems than it solves. A hitch or two in Timothy Geithner's confirmation hearing? "Hardline" Iranian protestors burn pictures of Obama. Democratic Congressman John Conyers recommends that the Obama administration "begin an independent criminal review of activities of the outgoing Administration .” No potties, no peace: Law professor threatens to sue the Obama Inaugural Committee if it ...

Obama Repairs USA's Broken Image Around the World
The Jawa Report — January 14, 2009 Obama Repairs USA's Broken Image Around the World The Lightworker works in mysterious ways. r1645453159.jpg By Good Lt. at January 14, 2009 08:11 AM | | l ...

Open Thread
Moonbattery — ... Apparently "the world" still doesn't love us, even after we slit our own wrists. On a tip from Third.

"From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful"
sisu — ... While Leader of the Free World-Elect Barack Obama channels Abraham Lincoln as "the world" looks on in shock and awe, admirers of Charles Darwin are getting ready to celebrate their hero's 200th birthday, together with the 150th anniversary of publication of the great naturalist's earthshaking On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (full text available online here). ...

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gazatoday.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — Day 23 of Israeli War On Gaza Informative Report on Gaza War: Death toll 1310, wounded 5600 By: Sameh A. Habeeb: A Photojournalist, Humanitarian & Peace Activist in Gaza Strip. Dear Editors, Journalists and Friends, Thousands of people appeared on ...
Misinformation about the 2005 Gaza Withdrawal
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com 1/7/2009 — I love Daniel Levy -- we're brothers in Zionism , after all -- but sometimes he drives me nuts. Andrew links without comment to Daniel's recent post informing the world that Ariel Sharon was not seeking peace when he withdrew from Gaza in 2005: One ...
Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic [Jonn]
thisainthell.us 1/11/2009 — This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguaration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans, but as you can see by the flag above, it was more an ...
A New Horror
susiemadrak.com 1/15/2009 — A new weapon , developed by the US in 2006, called DIME. Apparently this is what s causing the amputations we’re seeing in Gaza: AMY GOODMAN: Let me go to Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has just returned from Gaza, the Shifa Hospital. He’s back in ...
Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 1/15/2009 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel 's ...
Gaza Update: Breaking the Cease-fire
firedoglake.com 1/27/2009 — There are reports of a clash on the Gaza border and unconfirmed news of one Israeli soldier killed and three wounded. At the moment it is difficult to tell what really happened. The most complete report so far is from Reuters :  ...
Gaza Not In Ruins
commentarymagazine.com 1/25/2009 — You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of an article buried in the middle of the Sunday New York Times before you find out that the Israeli Defense Forces are not quite the barbarians that they have been made out to be. Writes Times correspondent ...
How badly did Gaza poison the well?
lynch.foreignpolicy.com 1/26/2009 — The Israeli attack on Gaza during the last weeks of the Bush administration looks more than ever like Bush's "last gift" to Israel and to the region -- carried out during the transition, with no American attempt to intervene, ending ...
No Other Option?!
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/12/2009 — I watch in shock, like the rest of the world, at the appalling death and destruction being wrought on Gaza by Israel; and still it does not stop. Meanwhile, we see a seemingly never-ending army of well-prepared Israeli war propagandists, some Israeli ...
On Gaza, strategy, and tactics
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com 1/11/2009 — Five days ago I mentioned that I did not know enough about Gaza to have a detailed or nuanced judgment about the immediate circumstances of the Israeli effort against Hamas. But I have seen, read, reported, thought, and written enough over the years ...
Bush backs Israel, says Iran dangerous (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/12/2009
AP - President George W. Bush on Monday renewed his support for Israel's military operations in Gaza, saying it has the right to defend its citizens from Hamas rocket attacks. But he also called for a lasting cease-fire that includes the disarming ...
Clinton outlines approach to Iran — First Read 1/13/2009
From NBC's Libby Leist In the first round of questions with Sen. Kerry , Sen. Clinton has given a rough outline of how the Obama administration will approach Iran.   "We are not taking any option off the table at all, ...
Olmert says he talked Bush out of cease-fire vote — L.A. Times - Politics 1/13/2009
It was his persuasion, the prime minister tells an audience, that kept the U.S. from supporting a U.N. resolution calling for an end to violence in Gaza. Washington doesn't dispute the claim. >  ...
Olmert's boast on U.N. Gaza vote is 'completely not true,' U.S. says — L.A. Times - Politics 1/14/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he persuaded Bush to reverse a vote on a Gaza cease-fire resolution. But the State Department says Condoleezza Rice already had decided to abstain. >  ...
ICRC: Israel's use of white phosphorus not illegal (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/14/2009
AP - The international Red Cross said Tuesday that Israel has fired white phosphorus shells in its offensive in the Gaza Strip, but has no evidence to suggest the incendiary agent is being used improperly or illegally.