nytimes.com - 1/15/2009
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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. I was one of the few people who argued back in 2006 that Israel actually won the war in ...
haaretz.com - 1/16/2009
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haaretz.com —
Hamas will not accept Israeli conditions for a
cease-fire in Gaza and would continue armed resistance until
the offensive ends, Khaled Meshal, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group, said on Friday. Speaking at the opening of an emergency ...
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Hamas: We will not accept Israel cease-fire ...
hrw.org - 1/11/2009
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hrw.org —
(Jerusalem, January 10, 2009) - Israel should stop
using white phosphorus in military operations in densely populated
areas of Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 9 and 10, 2009, Human Rights Watch researchers in Israel observed multiple ...
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Israel: Stop Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza | ...
brusselsjournal.com - 1/18/2009
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brusselsjournal.com —
A second front to the conflict in the
Gaza Strip has opened up in Europe, where a
wave of reprisal attacks against Jewish targets is stoking fears of a wider resurgence of anti-Semitism on the continent. Far from simply being a spate of isolated ...
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Anti-Semitism Sweeps Europe in Wake of Gaza Operation
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Apocalypse Now?
TPMCafe —
... that all Palestinians care about all the time, all the things that people abroad cannot get out of their minds--all irrelevant. Forget for a moment what Hamas is. The point is, for most Israelis nothing Hamas says--i.e., lift the siege, negotiate a "hundred year cease-fire," subject any deal to a referendum--can be responded to by diplomatic or other means. Their sad choice, most Israelis think, is to attack Hamas, even at the expense of mauling Gaza's citizens. Their vague goal--as Tom Friedman surmises, a little too much like King David counting up enemy foreskins--is that ...
Weekend Opinionator: The Battle Over the Battle in Gaza
Opinionator —
... snuggled in next to Thomas L. Friedman’s column, “Israel’s Goals in Gaza?” Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, never shy of overstatement, wasn’t even close to being the most vitriolic voice on the left side of the blogosphere when he called Goldberg “one of the nation’s leading (and most deceitful) progandists” intent on pushing “the joys and glories of this latest Middle East war.” ( ...
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