jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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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 frequently hears the claim that Israel left ...
time.com - 1/8/2009
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time.com —
Soldiers on patrol at Kibbutz Nir Am, a
mile from Gaza. Even after the start of Israel's
Jan. 4 ground offensive, communities near the border remained vulnerable to Hamas' rockets.
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Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip I live alone in
my office. My wife and two young children moved
in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. All the government ...
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AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble - Yahoo! News
salon.com - 1/8/2009
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salon.com —
The recent Israeli offensive has put the final
nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's Middle
East fantasy. By Juan Cole The Israel rules America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us ...
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Neoconservatism dies in Gaza
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War: What Is It Good For?
Ross Douthat —
... (which is awfully hard to do, as Israel has discovered in the wake of the Gaza pull-out, without compromising your short-term security). And it's the Kobayashi Maru-style impossibility of all this that makes something like the Gaza incursion so hard to analyze: It seems like a bad idea, but within the constraints that Israeli leaders operate under it's possible that it's the worst option except for all the others. ...
Oy, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Goldberg quibbles with Daniel Levy: Palestinians interested in a two-state solution would have viewed the withdrawal in 2005 as a first, important step toward independence. They would have used the billions in aid money that flowed to Gaza to build schools and hospitals and roads and farms on the abandoned land of the Jewish settlements. But they turned those ruined settlements into rocket launching pads. Sharon was wrong to pull out of Gaza without extracting concessions from the Palestinians, and he should have done it in the framework of a negotiation, ...
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U.S. to support ceasefire resolution —
First Read 1/8/2009
From NBC's Libby Leist NEW YORK -- After two days of intense negotiations, the U.S. has caved to pressure from Arab leaders and is now working on a U.N. resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
According to Western and Arab diplomats, the ...
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