google.com - 12/30/2008
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1 day ago BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Tens of thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah supporters stood under pouring rain Monday to protest Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip, which entered its third day. The demonstrators thronged a huge square and nearby streets in the militant group's stronghold south ...
salon.com - 12/30/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) University of Maryland's
Program on International Policy Attitudes -- July 1, 2008...
: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that in 14 of them people mostly say their government should not take sides in the ...
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George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards ...
jpost.com - 12/30/2008
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jpost.com —
In the midst of its Gaza operations, the
IDF is entering yet another conflict zone: the Internet....
The Israeli army announced yesterday the creation of its own YouTube channel , through which it will disseminate footage of precision bombing operations ...
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IDF launches YouTube Gaza channel | Israel | Jerusalem Post
corner.nationalreview.com - 12/31/2008
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I want to add two cents to the
much needed efforts of Ramesh and Victor (see, e.g.,...
here and here) to correct the perversion of the concept of proportionality. I noted this trend back in the summer of 2006, when it was applied to Israel's military ...
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Re: The Sense of Proportion
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... , Iraq’s leaders are now showing where their true sympathies lie. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Da’wa Party “issued a statement condemning the attacks and calling on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all ’secret and public talks’ with it.” ...
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... , Iraq’s leaders are now showing where their true sympathies lie. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Da’wa Party “issued a statement condemning the attacks and calling on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all ’secret and public talks’ with it.” ...
Iraqi Leader Condemn Israel
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... , Iraq’s leaders are now showing where their true sympathies lie. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Da’wa Party “issued a statement condemning the attacks and calling on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all ’secret and public talks’ with it.” ...
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