Supporting Hamas is now "progressive"

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directorblue.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008

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So a group -- whose mission is the destruction of your entire country -- chucks hundreds of missiles into your territory and thereby kills a bunch of innocent civilians. After warning and warning and warning, you retaliate with overwhelming force, killing two hundred of the group's leaders and ...

prospect.org - 12/28/2008

ISRAEL, WRONG.

— prospect.org — This is the paragraph that I can't get out of my head: Hamas had in recent weeks... let it be known that it doubted Israel would engage in a major military undertaking because of its coming elections. But in some ways the elections have made it ... (more) ISRAEL, WRONG.

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news.yahoo.com - 12/29/2008

Israel says Gaza assault 'war to the bitter end' - Yahoo! News

— news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of what the... defense minister described Monday as a "war to the bitter end," striking next to the Hamas premier's home, and devastating a security compound and a ... (more) Israel says Gaza assault 'war to the bitter end' - ...

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tnr.com - 12/29/2008

A Crisis And An Opportunity

— 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, ... (more) A Crisis And An Opportunity

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ODDLY ENOUGH: NYTIMES DOESN'T COVER THE FACT THAT EGYPT'S FOREIGN MINISTER BLAMES HAMAS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — GATEWAY POSTED THE VIDEO. IT'S COVERED IN EUROPE'S BLOGOSPHERE, AND ARAB NEWSPAPERS. BUT THE NYTIMES MAKES NOT A SINGLE MENTION OF IT.GEE... I WONDER WHY? COULD IT BE THEY ARE PROGRESSIVES FOR HAMAS? COULD IT BE THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR DWINDLING BASE LEFT-WING READERS IN THE DARK - AND MAKE ISRAEL SEEM AS BAD AS POSSIBLE? YES. AND YES.PINCH SULZBERGER'S RAG IS SOUNDING MORE AND MORE LIKE BAGHDAD BOB.

STILL NO MENTION OF GHEIT'S CONDEMNATION OF HAMAS IN THE NYTIMES... IS THIS WHY: SULZBERGER LOOKING FOR ARAB MONEY TO SAVE HIS ASS???
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — STILL NO MENTION OF GHEIT'S CONDEMNATION OF HAMAS IN THE NYTIMES; HE BLAMED HAMAS FOR BRINGING ON THE CURRENT SITUATION. WHY WOULD THE NYTIMES NOT PRINT THIS? TO SPARE THEIR PROGRESSIVE/LEFTIST/ANTI-ZIONIST READERS!?!?! MAYBE. OR.... PERHAPS PINCH DOESN'T WANT TO ALIENATE AN ARAB EMIR WHO MIGHT INFUSE THE NYTIMES WITH MONEY AND SAVE HIS POSTMODERN LEFTIST ASS?THAT'S MY GUESS. I THINK PINCH WOULD RATHER SELL TO A WAHHABIST THAN RUPERT!