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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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Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
War in north: Support in New York, condemnation in Berlin — Thousands demonstrate in support of Israel in front of UN headquarters in New York, but in Berlin more than 1,000 Lebanese, Palestinians chant 'death to Israel, while some carry placards bearing the image of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Carl / Israel Matzav:
A history lesson — At Little Green Footballs this morning …
A history lesson — At Little Green Footballs this morning …
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Khamenei Announces Hezbollah Plans, and the (Non-) Reacton of American Appeasers
Khamenei Announces Hezbollah Plans, and the (Non-) Reacton of American Appeasers
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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Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
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. Mash debuted his guest post on on North Korea this past Sunday …
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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.
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.
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Ynetnews:
Iran to Hizbullah: Curb attacks on Israel — Arabic language newspaper reports Iran was warned by European country that Israel is ready to attack targets in Syria in campaign to liquidate Hizbullah; Tehran sends foreign minister to Damascus to demand Hizbullah curtail attacks against Israel
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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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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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.
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.
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Rich Karlgaard / Digital Rules:
Where Is The "Netroots Left" On Israel? — Missing in action. — First a bit of background. The so-called Netroots Left, led by Markos Moulitsas of the popular Daily Kos, wants to be a player in American politics. As a test case, the Kossacks are throwing their weight behind political …
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
LEO STRAUSS, UNREHABILITATED. If you're in the mood for a bit of a high-minded intellectual detour from the hurly-burly of the blogosphere, take a gander at Scott Horton's fascinating pushback on recent efforts to rehabilitate philosopher and second-degree mentor to various neoconservative …
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.
David S. Joachim / New York Times:
For CBS's Fall Lineup, Check Inside Your Refrigerator — IN September, CBS plans to start using a new place to advertise its fall television lineup: your breakfast. — The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia …
Washington Post:
Bush Set to Use First Veto on Stem Cell Bill — Despite Divided GOP, President Says He Will Not Ease Restrictions on Federally Funded Research — Since his inauguration in 2000, President Bush has gone out of his way to avoid an overt confrontation with Congress.