weeklystandard.com - 12/29/2008
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Seeing Gaza from the lookout on the Israeli side of the border, it's not obvious that the Palestinian enclave is among the most miserable spots one could possible live. Still, we know it to be true. But perhaps it is lost on many Americans that living next to Gaza is likewise a miserable ...
haaretz.com - 12/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
Three days into Operation Cast Lead, Israel is
proposing a diplomatic exit. A ground operation likely looms...
in an effort to increase the pressure on Hamas. At the same time, however, others argue that the air force is close to exhausting its target ...
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ANALYSIS / Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/29/2008
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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 ...
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Israel says Gaza assault 'war to the bitter end' - ...
jpost.com - 12/29/2008
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Defense Minister and Labor chairman Ehud Barak on
Monday said that Israel would expand its military operation...
in the Gaza Strip until all the goals were achieved. He spoke at a special Knesset session attended, among others, by Foreign Minister Tzipi ...
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Barak: This is 'all out war' on Hamas | Israel | ...
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Israeli sources: Hamas’s capabilities have hardly been dented
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... reoccupy Gaza, which no one wants; as such, the only option is for Olmert to “act decisively” with a ground assault designed to accomplish … what, I’m not sure. Presumably it would involve all senior Hamas leaders being captured or killed, although as Roggio himself acknowledges, Hezbollah “won” the 2006 war simply by surviving intact. If Hamas is still in control of the strip after the IDF ground operation ends, I assume that’ll be received as a prestige-enhancing “victory” too. As Goldfarb says elsewhere at the Standard: The problem with this, however, is that if Israel ...
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... That particular quote comes from President-elect Barack Obama, and I offer it up as a goad to anybody who was deluding him or herself that the new administration was going to finally rid the world of those meddlesome Jews Israelis (you can view one of the epicenters of said self-delusion via ...
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