news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip The United Nations says it is halting all aid deliveries to the besieged Gaza Strip . It is citing a series of Israeli attacks on U.N. staff and installations. The announcement came shortly after the driver of a U.N. truck was killed by tank fire as he was headed to an ...
timesonline.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
A question mark hangs over Pope Benedict XVI's
planned trip to Israel in May after Israeli officials...
expressed outrage over a Vatican statement comparing Gaza to a "big concentration camp". The Pope today condemned the use of violence by both Israel ...
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'Concentration camp' remark threatens Pope's visit to ...
theweek.com - 1/8/2009
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theweek.com —
Good for Shrum for championing Israel s right
to defend itself against the Hamas rocket barrage. He...
is correct, too, that lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians abandon their hope that Israel can somehow be defeated or destroyed. ...
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Why Democrats recoil from Gaza
salon.com - 1/8/2009
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salon.com —
The recent Israeli offensive has put the final
nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's Middle...
East fantasy. By Juan Cole The Israel rules America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us ...
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Neoconservatism dies in Gaza
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Lebanese Terrorists Fire Missiles on Northern Israel!
Gateway Pundit —
Lebanese terrorists fired missiles on Israel today. So far no group has taken responsibility. The AP reported: Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people. Two people were lightly injured, and the rockets that exploded in Israel's north raised the specter of renewed hostilities with Hezbollah, just 2 1/2 years after Israel battled the guerrilla group to ...
The Incidents Of War
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
And so the Gaza conflict isolates Israel even more: The United Nations says it is halting all aid deliveries to the besieged Gaza Strip. It is citing a series of Israeli attacks on U.N. staff and installations. The
announcement came shortly after the driver of a U.N. truck was killed
by tank fire as he was headed to an Israeli border crossing to pick up
an aid shipment.
The U.N. said the delivery had been coordinated with Israel. The Israeli army has not commented. And the dog that didn't bark ... ? A few ...
Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
THURSDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * Ugh : "The U.N. suspended aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the Red Cross restricted its convoys after their trucks came under Israeli fire. The threat of a wider conflict arose when militants in Lebanon fired two rockets into northern Israel." * Muqtada al-Sadr wants " ...
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Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime
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There are reports of a clash on the Gaza border and unconfirmed news of one Israeli soldier killed and three wounded. At the moment it is difficult to tell what really happened. The most complete report so far is from Reuters :
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/12/2009 — I watch in shock, like the rest of the world, at the appalling death and destruction being wrought on Gaza by Israel; and still it does not stop. Meanwhile, we see a seemingly never-ending army of well-prepared Israeli war propagandists, some Israeli ...
U.S. to support ceasefire resolution —
First Read 1/8/2009
From NBC's Libby Leist NEW YORK -- After two days of intense negotiations, the U.S. has caved to pressure from Arab leaders and is now working on a U.N. resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
According to Western and Arab diplomats, the ...
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