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juancole.com - 1/18/2009
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced a ceasefire in the Israeli assault on the population of the Gaza Strip , beginning at midnight Saturday, Israeli time. He will not withdraw Israeli ground troops, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni threatened a renewal of attacks if Hamas fired ...
nytimes.com - 1/18/2009
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nytimes.com —
JERUSALEM Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups
in Gaza announced an immediate, week-long cease-fire in the...
conflict with Israel on Sunday, about 12 hours after an Israeli unilateral cease-fire went into effect. The Palestinian groups said in ...
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Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire
haaretz.com - 1/17/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel is very close to securing the objectives
of its 22-day-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip,...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday, according to French News Agency AFP. "After three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, we are very close ...
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Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on ...
turcopolier.typepad.com - 1/18/2009
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"Hamas officials were set to hold talks in
Cairo with Egyptian mediators to hear the Israeli response...
to proposals put forward by the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.Hamas has offered a one-year, renewable truce on condition that all...
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An inevitable outcome in Gaza
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Cease Fire in Gaza
The Mahablog —
... Hamas, which will accrue resources and recruits in Hamas’s favor, resulting in turn in more Isaeli deaths in the future. The death spiral continues. As the Dog says, no one is suggesting that Israel passively accept rockets being launched into its territory. But there’s reacting, and there’s responding. There’s stupid fighting, and smart fighting. Israel chose “stupid.” And the same lame-brains who love the Iraq War are cheering them on.
Via Juan Cole, John J. Mearsheimer writes in The American Conservative that with ...
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