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Pamela / Atlas Shrugs:
STAND WITH ISRAEL RALLY NYC OVERWHELMING — In a word. Unbelievable. Tens of thousands of regular folks, all walks of life, came out to Stand with Israel. And stand they did. In broiling heat, the young, old, Jewish, Christian, chanted their support for Israel. It was gorgeous.
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Bush Curses Hezbollah During G8 Luncheon — It wasn't meant to be overheard. Private luncheon conversations among world leaders, picked up by a microphone, provided a rare window into both banter and substance _ including President Bush cursing Hezbollah's attacks against Israel.
Haaretz:
Series of rockets strike towns across the north — Hezbollah fired more than 50 rockets at Israel on Monday, including a barrage which landed after 10 P.M. in the northern towns of Safed, Rosh Pina, Tzivon, Sakhnin, Hatzur Haglilit and Peki'in. — Five people were wounded in the rocket barrage …
CNN:
Bush caught off-guard in chat with Blair — President: 'They need ... to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s___' — ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (CNN) — An open microphone caught President Bush in an unguarded moment Monday as the escalating crisis in the Middle East prompted him to use …
Adam / Adam Boulton Weblog:
Bush & Blair Raw & Uncut — A fascinating conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush has been caught by the microphones at the G8, when the two men didn't think they were being overheard. It tells us a lot about the relationship between the two men, about the US-UK special relationship and the two men's views on the Middle East.
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Ezra Klein:
Things That Make Me Proud To Be A Journalist — If I were crafting a parody of the political media's decline, I could hardly construct a better set piece than today's reportage. A live mic at the G8 Summit caught Tony Blair and George Bush talking privately about the conflict in Lebanon.
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Arab world fed up with Hizbullah — With the exception of the Palestinians, the Arab world appears to be united in blaming Iran and Syria for the fighting in Lebanon. Until last week, Arab political analysts and government officials were reluctant to criticize Hizbullah in public.
Ynetnews:
Olmert: Our enemies misjudged us — PM addresses Knesset plenum regarding fighting in north: 'Israel didn't ask for these confrontations, but there were those who interpreted our will for peace as a sign of weakness,' he says — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addressed the Knesset plenum Monday regarding …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Bush: Lean on Syria — I cobbled the Bush-Blair exchange on Israel and Lebanon, accidentally caught at the G8 on mike, together fromWaPo and ABC News. … So, the whole blow-up is Syria's fault, for putting Hizbullah up to making mischief. No reference to Israeli actions in Gaza.
Andrew G. Bostom / The American Thinker:There are short-term reasons behind the attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:More rockets on Haifa; can/will Lebanon confront Hezbollah?
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Up to 48 Iraqis Killed in Attack on Market — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 17 — Dozens of gunmen went on a chaotic rampage through a mostly Shiite market area in the town of Mahmudiya today, killing at least 48 civilians and injuring scores by firing off assault rifles, heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
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New York Times:
In an About-Face, Sunnis Want U.S. to Remain in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 16 — As sectarian violence soars, many Sunni Arab political and religious leaders once staunchly opposed to the American presence here are now saying they need American troops to protect them from the rampages …
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Deacon / Power Line:
DR. GOEBBELS, CALL YOUR OFFICE — In an obscene attempt to obtain political mileage, the Democrats are claiming that President Bush is responsible for the outbreak of war in the Middle East. Howard Dean claims that the war would not have occurred if the Democrats had been in power …
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Media Matters for America:
Kornblut falsely reported that Sen. Clinton criticized Democrats for "wasting time" … In a July 16 Web-only article, New York Times reporter Anne E. Kornblut falsely reported that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) criticized her fellow congressional Democrats "for taking on issues …
Thomas E. Mann / Washington Post:
For Democrats, Wave Is Building — There's probably no way congressional Republicans can lose this fall, no matter how unpopular President Bush is or how unhappy the voters are with the war in Iraq. That's the prevailing view in Washington today. — But it's wrong.
Patricia Lopez / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Wide gap a surprise in race for Senate — DFLer Klobuchar holds a strong early lead over Republican Kennedy in expected close race. — DFL Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar has opened up a strong early lead over GOP rival Mark Kennedy in a Minnesota Poll that shows Klobuchar with 50 percent …
John Ireland / inthesetimes.com:
Blowing the Whistle on Diebold — On July 13, the Pensacola, Fla.-based law firm of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a "qui tam" lawsuit in U.S. District Court, alleging that Diebold and other electronic voting machine (EVM) companies fraudulently represented to state election boards …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Friendly skies: Canada greenlights terrorists for air travel — Not an exaggeration. I understand that racial profiling can be abused, I understand that the U.S. watch list is a bit, shall we say, overinclusive. But, um... It's every joke you've ever heard about Canadian politeness, times a million:
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