theweek.com - 1/8/2009
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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. Unfortunately, Shrum represents an increasingly ...
foxnews.com - 1/9/2009
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foxnews.com —
Friday, January 09, 2009 BREAKING NEWS— Israel's government
says it will press ahead with its offensive in
the Gaza Strip despite a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office says the military "will ...
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Israel and Hamas Reject U.N. Truce, Intensify Attacks - ...
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
haaretz.com - 1/5/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel and Hamas on Monday ratcheted up their
public statements ahead of the critical date of Friday,
December 19 when the six-month old cease-fire is set to expire. In Damascus, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal threatened that calm would end this ...
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ANALYSIS / Who wants to end the Hamas-Israel ...
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THE WEEK: Why Democrats Recoil from Gaza. “First, Democrats are just generally less likely to supp…
Instapundit —
... THE WEEK: Why Democrats Recoil from Gaza. “First, Democrats are just generally less likely to support military actions by any nation, including the United States. A 2005 MIT poll found that only 57 percent of Democrats would support the use of American troops even to destroy a terrorist training camp. (Compared to 95 percent of Republicans.) Second, Democrats hold an inexhaustible faith in the value of negotiation.” ...
Poisoning the Gaza Debate with Anti-Semitism
David Corn —
... Neocon former Bush speechwriter David Frum (who helped coin the "Axis of Evil" phrase) wonders "why Democrats recoil from Gaza." But have no fear, he has the answers. Dems just aren't fans of military action, he says, and they are suckers for negotiations. But, worse, according to Frum, "Democratic attitudes are poisoned by the influences of an anti-Zionist hard left, a vociferous faction whose ideology can bleed into outright anti-Semitism." ...
Democrats' antipathy to the Gaza operation?
Israel Matzav —
Democrats' antipathy to the Gaza operation? [image] David Frum lists four reasons why Democrats recoil from Israel's Gaza operation (Hat Tip: Memeorandum ). First, Democrats are just generally less likely to support military actions by any nation, including the United States. A 2005 MIT poll found that only 57 percent of Democrats would support the use of American troops even to destroy a terrorist training camp. (Compared to 95 percent of Republicans.) Second, Democrats hold an inexhaustible faith in the value of negotiation. Untroubled by Hamas’ character ...
Is Israel in for a bumpy 4 years?
QandO —
David Frum throw out some interesting points about Democrats in general and specifically Democratic support for Israel: ...
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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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