lefarkins.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008
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I don't have many additional thoughts on the breaking of the Gaza ceasefire. The strategic aims seem clear; Hamas wished to provoke an Israeli attack in anticipation that the reaction will help Hamas seize control of the West Bank. Israel wants to damage Hamas' state infrastructure, and thus ...
jpost.com - 12/29/2008
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jpost.com —
Defense Minister and Labor chairman Ehud Barak on
Monday said that Israel would expand its military operation
in the Gaza Strip until all the goals were achieved. He spoke at a special Knesset session attended, among others, by Foreign Minister Tzipi ...
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Barak: This is 'all out war' on Hamas | Israel | ...
tnr.com - 12/29/2008
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tnr.com —
CNN International's coverage of yesterday's fighting in Gaza
concluded at midnight with a rush of images: mangled
civilians writhing in the rubble, primitive hospitals overflowing with the wounded, fireballs mushrooming between apartment complexes, ...
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A Crisis And An Opportunity
topics.nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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topics.nytimes.com —
Fatah became preeminent among Palestinian factions in the
1960s though a series of strikes against Israel --
in its eyes, successful military campaigns, though condemned by Israel and the West as terrorism -- and by the end of the decade it was the ...
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Al Fatah - The New York Times
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After Hamas
Matthew Yglesias —
Robert Farley writes about the strategic logic of the Gaza standoff:
The strategic aims seem clear; Hamas wished to provoke an Israeli attack in anticipation that the reaction will help Hamas seize control of the West Bank. Israel wants to damage Hamas’ state infrastructure, and thus apply enough pain to the Palestinians that they move back towards Abbas, and incidentally give Kadima a chance to win the upcoming elections. Although Egypt and Abbas seem to be on board with the Israeli plan, I know which way I’m betting; people ...
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Israel: Fighting 'could get worse' —
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