juancole.com - 2/16/2009
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The demonstrating crowds have gone home. The blog postings have tapered off. The pundits have moved on. Congress is back to its old tricks, ignoring public opinion in favor of the lobbyists and money men. The US public is worried about losing its job or getting back the one it lost. Gaza here ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 2/18/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious
scholars and clerics met with senior Hamas officials to...
plot a new jihad centred on Gaza. The BBC's Bill Law was the only Western journalist at the meeting. In a hall crowded with conservative Sunni ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Clerics urge new jihad over Gaza
guardian.co.uk - 2/13/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Living in the rubble: a Gaza family left
homeless by the war Link to this video New...
evidence has emerged revealing the extent of the crackdown by Hamas during and after Israel's war in Gaza last month. Amnesty International said Hamas forces and ...
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Hamas murder campaign in Gaza exposed |
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news.bbc.co.uk - 2/19/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
The Palestinian group Hamas has sent a letter
addressed to the US president via a US politician...
visiting Gaza, a senior UN official has said. UN relief agency chief Karen Abu Zayd told the BBC the letter had been received by the UN and passed on. She ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Hamas 'sends Barack Obama letter'
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The Burned Children of Gaza Remain
Suburban Guerrilla —
Juan Cole:
The demonstrating crowds have gone home. The blog postings have tapered off. The pundits have moved on. Congress is back to its old tricks, ignoring public opinion in favor of the lobbyists and money men. The US public is worried about losing its job or getting back the one it lost. Gaza here is a dimming memory, a momentary nightmare now past.
But the Palestinian children wounded and charred by Israeli bombings are still screaming, their physicians unable to get hold of enough pain killers to still their yelps of pain. Some 5300 ...
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