nytimes.com - 1/14/2009
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The focus for Israel and Barack Obama’s team should be on creating a clear choice for Hamas for the world to see: Are you about destroying Israel or building Gaza? >
zombietime.com - 1/12/2009
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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 ...
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Gaza War Protest
haaretz.com - 1/12/2009
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The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab
political parties from running in next month's parliamentary elections,
drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country's Supreme Court. ...
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Israel bans Arab parties from running in ...
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... years ago. "Gigonomics," Brown calls it. The poll, conducted online among 500 employed Americans over 18, found that a third are working as freelancers or in two jobs. Of those who call themselves freelancers, 58 percent previously had a staff position with the company for which they're now doing "gigs." This not-so-rosy scenario raises questions for which there are no ready answers. How long will it last? What if they can't find even temp work? Tom Friedman: On educating Hama, Hezbollah and as afterthought, everyone else. Jay ...
Gaza and Israel: Thomas Friedman is naive
The Moderate Voice —
Hopeful, and with all due respect, but naive. Read his op-ed in Wednesday’s New York Times here.
Key portion:
Israel de facto recognizes Hamas’s right to rule Gaza and to provide for the well-being and security of the people of Gaza — which was actually Hamas’s original campaign message, not rocketing Israel. And, in return, Hamas has to signal a willingness to assume responsibility for a lasting cease-fire and to abandon efforts to change the strategic equation with Israel by deploying longer and longer range rockets. That’s the only ...
Teaching Thomas
Yourish.com —
In “Israel’s goals in Gaza,” Thomas Friedman sees Israel’s war against Hamas as a teaching action. No, really.
I have only one question about Israel’s military operation in Gaza: What is the goal? Is it the education of Hamas or the eradication of Hamas? I hope that it’s the education of Hamas. Let me explain why.
Friedman educates us:
There have always been two camps in Israel when it comes to the logic of peace, notes Gidi Grinstein, president of the Israeli think tank, the Reut Institute: One ...
The Thugocracy of Hamas in Gaza
Taylor Marsh —
... How anyone can tout Friedman or his definition of terrorism after he made the case Israel won over Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006 is beyond me, but Glenn makes the case. You can be the judge. Friedman is still defensively arguing it today, with this beaut causing me to do a double take and a double read: ...
Withdrawal is no cure-all
Yourish.com —
If Thomas Friedman thinks that Israel only needs to teach Hamas a lesson, Dore Gold provides some numbers that would make him reconsider. (Friedman actually would never reconsider, being resistant to learning from past mistakes.)
Admittedly, there were rocket attacks on Israel before the Gaza pullout (the first Qassam rocket was fired in 2001). However, the scale of the attacks totally changed after the withdrawal. Rocket attacks increased by 500% (from 179 in 2005 to 946 in 2006).
The range of Hamas’s rockets also increased ...
Educating Thomas Friedman
This Modern World —
As Glenn Greenwald points out , Thomas Friedman endorsed terrorism yesterday in his New York Times column : Israel’s counterstrategy [in 2006] was to use its Air Force to pummel Hezbollah and, while not directly targeting the Lebanese civilians with whom Hezbollah was intertwined, to inflict substantial property damage and collateral casualties on Lebanon at large. It was not pretty, but it was logical. Israel basically said that when dealing with a nonstate actor, Hezbollah, nested among civilians, the only long-term source of deterrence was to ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/11/2009 — Ehud Olmert says that Israel is now “close” to achieving its goals in Gaza. Which is nice, except nobody’s ever been able to clarify what those goals are. As hard-core anti-semite Anthony Cordesman wrote the other day :
This ...
Playing to Win in Gaza
brusselsjournal.com 1/9/2009 — As the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip nears the end of its second week, two things are clear: first, that it will come to some sort of internationally brokered end ;
and second, that it will end thus because there is no other end that
Israel will ...
Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/5/2009 — I'm immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard and a student at Yale Law ...
Joe The Plumber Files First Reports From Israel On Gaza Crisis
huffingtonpost.com 1/12/2009 — SDEROT, Israel — Joe the Plumber has set aside his wrenches to become a rookie war correspondent, covering Israel's side of its two-week-old military offensive in Gaza.
The Ohio man, who rocketed to fame during the U.S. presidential campaign ...
Letters to the Editor —
Christian Science Monitor | Commentary 1/14/2009
Readers write about American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, the roles of executive power and inalienable rights in the US, questions that should be asked about President Bush, and why Israel's attacks on Gaza are not war crimes.
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