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un.org - 1/13/2009
SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE, DURABLE, FULLY RESPECTED CEASEFIRE IN GAZA LEADING TO FULL WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAELI FORCES
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Security Council 6063 rd Meeting (Night) SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE, DURABLE, FULLY RESPECTED CEASEFIRE IN GAZA LEADING TO FULL WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAELI FORCES Resolution 1860 (2009) Adopted by 14 in Favour, Abstention by United States; Also Calls for Unimpeded Humanitarian Assistance, ...

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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel 's ... (more) Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News

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Is Israel Losing the Media War in Gaza? - Yahoo! News
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Is Israel Losing the Media War in Gaza? - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — Gaza toll passes 1,000 as peace hopes rise AFP An Israeli soldiers checks the cannon of a tank on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, before (more) Is Israel Losing the Media War in Gaza? - Yahoo! News

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Gaza Video Supplier Responds
— littlegreenfootballs.com — Middle East | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:12:11 am PST This is an email sent to us by Paul Martin, who supplied Western media with that Gaza hospital video. Martin demands an apology from bloggers, and insists that we have no reason to be suspicious of ... (more) Gaza Video Supplier Responds

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Olmert Slams Condi... Advanced Classes in Chutzpah
TPMCafe — ... Speaking in southern Israel today, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert revealed details of a call he apparently placed to President Bush which led to the US changing its vote on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and boasting how he had "shamed" the US secretary of state and laid down the law with the president (full report below). AIPAC has also slammed the Bush administration for not vetoing U.N. SCR 1860, as MJ ...

Condi Rice Calls Olmert's Story "Fiction"
The Washington Note — ... of both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President Bush with regard to UN Security Council Resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. ...

Condi Rice Calls Olmert's Story "Fiction"
TPMCafe — ... of both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President Bush with regard to UN Security Council Resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. ...

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