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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Hunker Down With History — The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims …
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New York Times:
Israeli General Says Lebanon Offensive Will Last Weeks — JERUSALEM, July 18 — A top Israeli general said today that Israel's offensive in Lebanon would last another few weeks, and he said that the use of large numbers of ground forces had not been ruled out.
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Haaretz:
UN delegation presents cease-fire package; Livni hints Israel won't rule out int'l force in Lebanon — Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni hinted Tuesday that Israel would not object to a temporary international force in south Lebanon, despite earlier an outright Israeli rejection of such a plan.
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat — Forty to fifty percent of Hizbullah's military capability has been destroyed in the six days of the IDF counter-attack following last Wednesday's Hizbullah raid in northern Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Juan / Informed Comment:
Israel Invades Lebanon; — Ongoing Airstrikes Kill Dozens of Lebanese Civilians; — Hizbullah Rockets Wound 11 in Haifa — Israel invaded Lebanon on Monday, sending ground troops into the south. Israeli leaders say that they do not intend a long-term occupation. But then war is unpredictable.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:NOT EQUAL: — At Tapped, Matt Yglesias writes that Hezbollah's …
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Austin Bay Blog:Understanding Hezbollah's rockets:Katyushas and the failed Westphalian system
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David Aaronovitch / Times of London:A heavily armed militia attacks your territory. What are you meant to do?
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Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel — updated below— President Bush took time out from the G-8 Summit to grope German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I'm not kidding. It boggles the mind. — Via Mash (by the way, great get!), we get photos via a friend of his in Germany.
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Mash / Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying:
President Bush Strikes From Behind — At the G-8 summit, President Bush grabs German Chancellor Angela Merkel from behind and gives her a quick massage before rushing off. Chancellor Merkel is not amused. — While the Middle East burns, our fearless leader is busy with his frat boy pranks.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Presidential Groping — She sure doesn't seem to happy about it to me.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times to Reduce Page Size and Close a Plant in 2008 — The New York Times is planning to reduce the size of the newspaper, making it narrower by one and a half inches, and to close its printing operation in Edison, N.J., company officials said yesterday. — The changes, to go into effect …
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Reuters:
NYT to cut paper size and close plant —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Transformation's Toll — "Grotesque" was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's characterization of the charge that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was responsible for the current Middle East conflagration. She is correct, up to a point. This point: Hezbollah and Hamas were alive and toxic long before March 2003.
Duncan Black / Los Angeles Times:
Why the Left Is Furious at Lieberman — A blogger's blast at the embattled Connecticut senator. Hint: It's not just Iraq. — SOME TIME AFTER having lunch in Iraq with the junior senator from Connecticut, Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware told an interviewer …
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Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Caught on Candid Camera — What Bush's overheard remarks tell us about his views on Mideast diplomacy-and why he should be engaging Syria rather than criticizing it. — Reuters TV-pool — Overheard: Bush talks to Blair at the G8 lunch — July 17, 2006 - Only very rarely …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator Resisting Bush Over Detainees — WASHINGTON, July 17 — Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina often plays the contrarian, the conservative Republican willing to poke a stick in the eye of the White House. — Now Mr. Graham is playing an even higher-profile variant of that role …
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New York Times:
Car Bomb Kills Dozens Near Shiite Shrine in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 18— A bomb killed 53 people and wounded more than 100 in the Shiite city of Kufa today, a day after at least 48 people died as dozens of gunmen suspected of being Sunni Arabs went on a rampage through a mostly Shiite market area …
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:Military-Style Assault Kills Dozens in Iraqi Marketplace
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Jules Witcover / Salt Lake Tribune:
The Democrats' message dilemma — WASHINGTON — It was a bit startling the other morning to hear Sen. Charles Schumer of New York — the garrulous poster boy of Democratic liberalism — intone that New Deal Democracy is over. But also, he added just as surprisingly, so is Reagan Republicanism.
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MSNBC:
U.S. citizens remain in dark about evacuation — Official: Operation costs more than available resources; 64 have left so far — A French toddler is carried over a fence by relatives as they wait Monday with hundreds of other French citizens near their embassy in Beirut to be evacuated from Lebanon.
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