latimes.com - 1/6/2009
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Discuss Article (121 Comments) 'Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, that's what you need!" This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse last week during an anti-Israel rally in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other chants were similarly unlovely. You can ...
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
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/9/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Israel is to keep up its offensive in
the Gaza Strip despite a UN call for an...
immediate end to nearly two weeks of conflict involving Hamas militants. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the latest firing of rockets into Israel showed the resolution was ...
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UN ceasefire call goes unheeded
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Eyeless in Gaza
David E's Fablog —
by David E | (Visited 54 times) gaza In an op-ed piquantly entitled “Who Are the Real Nazis,” Doughy Pantload muses . . . “Perhaps one reason Israel fails at genocide is that it isn’t interested in genocide? That would explain why Israel warned thousands of Gazans by cellphone to leave homes near Hamas rocket stockpiles. It would clarify why, even amid all-out war, it offers aid to enemy civilians.” ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Rockets from Lebanon
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... of an IDF soldier, Israel goes over to the offensive. The the "international community" begins a round of condemnation of Israel. How about the Security Council and the EU and all the other usual suspects move immediately to condemn Hezbollah and warn the terrorists and their Iranian backers that further provocations will result in the immediate withdrawal of all "observers" from south Lebanon? That might actually send a message that would work to deter a widening conflict. As Jonah noted yesterday (HT: ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Rockets from Lebanon
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... of an IDF soldier, Israel goes over to the offensive. The the "international community" begins a round of condemnation of Israel. How about the Security Council and the EU and all the other usual suspects move immediately to condemn Hezbollah and warn the terrorists and their Iranian backers that further provocations will result in the immediate withdrawal of all "observers" from south Lebanon? That might actually send a message that would work to deter a widening conflict. As Jonah noted yesterday (HT: ...
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Bush puts onus on Hamas for any Gaza truce —
Reuters: Politics 1/5/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on Monday that any ceasefire to end the Gaza crisis must include provisions to prevent Hamas from continuing to use the coastal strip to fire rockets into Israel.
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