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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Israeli strikes are part of a broader strategy — U.S., Israel aim to weaken Hezbollah, region's militants — Israel, with U.S. support, intends to resist calls for a cease-fire and continue a longer-term strategy of punishing Hezbollah, which is likely to include several weeks …
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Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah calls for aid from Arab world — In a recorded television speech on Sunday evening, Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah urged Arab states to come to the organization's aid. — "Where are the Arab nations?" he asked, moments after declaring that Hizbullah wouldn't ask for help from anyone.
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Children die in convoy attack as Israel widens Lebanon assault — Inigo Gilmore in Nahariyah, Patrick Wintour in St Petersburg and Tracy McVeigh — Israel steeply escalated its military campaign against Hizbollah in Lebanon yesterday with a series of air strikes that left more than 35 civilians dead …
Greg Myre / New York Times:
In Haifa, a Scene of Death and Destruction — HAIFA, Israel, July 16 — The train platform, slick with blood and littered with chunks of fallen roof, was the grim evidence confirming a prediction that Israeli security chiefs had made for years. Hezbollah, they said, had acquired larger …
Reuters:
G8 calls on Hizbollah to end attacks — ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Group of Eight leaders on Sunday blamed extremists for an upsurge of Middle East violence and while accepting Israel's right to defend itself said the Jewish state should exercise "utmost restraint."
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Katherine Zoepf / New York Times:Spirits Are High in Syria's Capital as Leaders Openly Show Support for Hezbollah
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran calls Western incentives acceptable — TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday that Western incentives to halt its nuclear program were an "acceptable basis" for talks, and it is ready for detailed negotiations. — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded that Iran should talk directly …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Rice Calls Idea That Iraq War Contributed To Regional Instability 'Grotesque' — Today on ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos pointed out that the Bush administration repeatedly promised that war in Iraq would bring peace and stability to the Middle East.
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New York Times:
The Real Agenda — It is only now, nearly five years after Sept. 11, that the full picture of the Bush administration's response to the terror attacks is becoming clear. Much of it, we can see now, had far less to do with fighting Osama bin Laden than with expanding presidential power.
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Philip J. LaVelle / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Dean raps Bush on defense — Democratic chairman speaks at conference — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean accused President Bush last night of being weak on national defense and absent in the escalating violence between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.
Richard A. Epstein / Chicago Tribune:
The problem with presidential signing statements — a law professor at the University of Chicago — Recently, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, held a hearing about "presidential signing statements." Shortly thereafter, the Supreme Court issued …
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Clinton, in Arkansas, Says Democrats Are 'Wasting Time' — ROGERS, Ark., July 15 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, returning to her red-state ties, chastised Democrats Saturday for taking on issues that arouse conservatives and turn out Republican voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects.
Glenn Frankel / Washington Post:
A Beautiful Friendship? — In search of the truth about the Israel lobby's influence on Washington — All David Ben-Gurion wanted was 15 minutes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's time. — Israel's founding father, one of the indomitable political leaders of the 20th century …
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Bomber kills 26 at cafe in northern Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday inside a cafe packed with Shiites in northern Iraq, killing 26 people and injuring 22, an Iraqi general said. Gunmen seized a top Oil Ministry official, the second major kidnapping in as many days.
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