littlegreenfootballs.com - 1/6/2009
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Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:52:12 am PST The UN and the mainstream media are wailing and accusing Israel of war crimes (yes, again) after the IDF returned fire at a UN school from which Palestinians were firing mortars. The explosives and booby traps installed in the school by Hamas then ...
haaretz.com - 1/6/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to
40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the...
Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. The attack brought the Palestinian death toll to nearly 600 in Israel's 11-day offensive on ...
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40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
I spent the morning at a lecture organized
by GWU's outstanding Homeland Security Policy Institute's Ambassador's Roundtable...
Series featuring Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor. It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because ...
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"We have no grand political scheme"
jta.org - 1/6/2009
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jta.org —
Top Democrats are planning to introduce a nonbinding
congressional resolution supporting Israel's goal in its Gaza Strip...
operation.
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Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
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Destroying the School To Save It
Newshoggers.com —
... a base to mortar their troops, but the UN says that all the dead and injured were civilians. Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas' war crime by committing another war crime. You can't get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge.
And there ...
In Gaza, Horror Piled Atop Horror
Comments from Left Field —
... Israeli soldiers were compelled to do the same.
… Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas’ war crime by committing another war crime. You can’t get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge. ...
Nuke the UN
Cold Fury —
Well, why the hell not? Given the safe harbor they provide to terrorist scum — tucked cozily in amongst plenty of the Palestinian civilians the cowards routinely use as human shields, and then blame Israel for killing — they’re enemies of civilization just as surely as Muslim terrorists are. Oh, and why is it Lefty shriekers seem to have had their hyperactive “War crimes! War criiiiimes!” reflex suddenly rendered inoperable by actual war crimes committed by their Muslim terrorist allies? Where’s the OUTRAGE! , you noble humanitarians, you? Is it hypocrisy, disingenuousness, ...
Death Dance
The Mahablog —
... the schools were sheltering civilians. According to Little Green Footballs, terrorists were using the schools as a weapons dump. Juan Cole has a video of a young Palestinian woman confronting Israeli troops who were firing on children. ...
What Some People Didn’t Learn in Kindergarten
The Mahablog —
... what is done, but by who is doing it.
The other day I quoted Cernig:
Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas’ war crime by committing another war crime. You can’t get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge. ...
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