google.com - 1/12/2009
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2 days ago ASHKELON, Israel (AP) Joe the Plumber called on President-elect Barack Obama on Monday to help Israel in its campaign against Hamas. The plumber-turned-war correspondent has been unabashed in his support of Israel's two-week campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and has been ...
nytimes.com - 1/14/2009
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nytimes.com —
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? >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Israel’s Goals in Gaza?
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 ...
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INSTAPUTZ —
A question I have seen neither asked nor answered: Who is funding Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher's trip to Israel? This isn't something I'd ordinarily ask, but given that PJTV is a startup (i.e. no profits, no real inflows), has only been in existence since the GOP convention, and the cost of the trip presumably considerable -- well, I do wonder! The answer would quite possibly color one's assessment of his reporting.
Apocalypse Now?
TPMCafe —
... How is it that Israelis, as Ethan Bronner reports, are almost universally in favor of the Gaza operation, including the way it's been prosecuted, while government leaders and educated people around the globe, even those disgusted by Hamas missile attacks, ...
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Israel will ...
In Israel
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reuters.com 1/12/2009 — SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) - Joe the Plumber has plunged into the Gaza war. Covering the conflict for PJTV.com, a U.S. conservative website, Joe Wurzelbacher was in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Sunday, a target of rockets from the Hamas-ruled ...
Getting Closer to Nowhere
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 :
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Israel’s shift to the right
yourish.com 2/12/2009 — The vote in Israel shows that a majority of Israelis voted for right-leaning parties. Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party, loathed by many for issues like wanting Arab Israelis to swear a loyalty oath, won fifteen seats in the Knesset. ...
Teaching thomas
soccerdad.baltiblogs.com 1/14/2009 — 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 ...
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Samuel Wurzelbacher , best known as Joe the Plumber, is reporting from Israel these days as part of his new gig for a conservative Web site, Pajamas TV ( http://www.pjtv.com ).
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