haaretz.com - 1/9/2009
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The United Nations is claiming Israeli military officers have admitted there was no Palestinian gunfire emanating from inside an UNRWA school in Gaza which was shelled by an IDF tank. Dozens of Palestinians were killed in the shelling. In addition, UNRWA Thursday announced it will cease ...
confederateyankee.mu.nu - 1/9/2009
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confederateyankee.mu.nu —
As the IDF campaign in Gaza continues, so
do attempts by Hamas and Hamas sympathizers to use
the western media as an often willing propaganda tool. Yesterday, media critic Charles Johnson commented on Little Green Footballs about a 2-minute CNN...
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Anatomy of a Media Hoax
ynetnews.com - 1/10/2009
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ynetnews.com —
IDF: Whole Hamas battalions wiped out Is Hamas
falling apart? Senior IDF officer says roughly 300 Hamas
men killed since army launched ground incursion, whole Hamas battalions wiped out in dozens of clashes with troops over weekend; terror group also ...
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IDF: Whole Hamas battalions wiped out - Israel News, ...
jpost.com - 1/11/2009
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jpost.com —
The IDF will likely expand its operations in
the Gaza Strip in the coming days in an
effort to press Egypt to declare its readiness to stop the weapons smuggling from the Sinai Peninsula into Gaza, defense officials said Saturday. The IDF is currently ...
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IDF likely to expand Gaza op before cease-fire is ...
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An IDF retraction
Daimnation! —
... According to Ha'aretz, the IDF has retracted its claim (noted here) that they were being fired on from a school in which Palestinian civilians were killed: ...
Israel In Gaza, Shooting Itself In The Foot
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... - something the Israeli Defense Force originally alleged was in response to militant activity "near to" the building (no-one said how near) and which had been met, confusingly by the IDF's own statements, by either return mortar fire or bombs or artillery shells depending upon which statement the pro-Israel lobby were taking as gospel at any time. Now, however, the UN says that senior IDF officials have admitted a mistake. ...
UN spokesman: IDF admitted there were no mortars fired from shelled UN school
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... under the school. Then again, would a UN spokesman lie this blatantly? Errr, let me rephrase: Would a UN spokesman lie this blatantly on the record, as a named source? Hmmm. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness told Haaretz yesterday that the army had conceded wrongdoing.“In briefings senior [Israel Defense Forces] officers conducted for foreign diplomats, they admitted the shelling to which IDF forces in Jabalya were responding did not originate from the school,” Gunness said. “The IDF admitted in that briefing that the attack on the UN site was unintentional.” He noted that all ...
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House backs Israel's right to defend itself —
CNN.com - Politics 1/9/2009
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday "recognizing Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza," a measure that it said reaffirms the United States' strong support for Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian ...
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