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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.
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Reuters:
Iran's Hizbollah says ready to attack US, Israel —Text+TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide. — "We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year …
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.
Discussion:
Early Warning …, The Agonist, TAPPED, american footprints, Associated Press, Balloon Juice and FP Passport
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat
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Ynetnews, Pajamas Media, Yourish.com, A Blog For All, Liberty and Justice, Israellycool, Power Line and Morning Coffee
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
A heavily armed militia attacks your territory. What are you meant to do?
A heavily armed militia attacks your territory. What are you meant to do?
Times of London:
Beyond Lebanon — World leaders must do better than ground troops to silence Hezbollah
Beyond Lebanon — World leaders must do better than ground troops to silence Hezbollah
Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel — President Bush took time out from the G-8 Summit to grope German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I'm not kidding. It boggles the mind. (Update: John at C&L has the video up.) — Via Mash (by the way, great get!), we get photos via a friend of his in Germany.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Presidential Groping — She sure doesn't seem to happy about it to me. … Video-WMP Video-QT later — This has been an awful trip for Bush to say the least on so many levels. Please list all the problems he has had in the comment section. … Lindsay: Every woman will recognize …
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Shakespeare's Sister, Balloon Juice, Riehl World View, No More Mister Nice Blog, PunditGuy and Alternate Brain
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 …
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.
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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 …
Think Progress:
Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks 'Are You Going To Kill Me?' — Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is leading the opposition to the H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that Brownback has used a deceptive and false report …
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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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Chicago Weighs New Prohibition: Bad-for-You Fats — CHICAGO, July 14 — In Grant Park, this city's front yard along Lake Michigan, a dizzying pack of people filled the streets evening after evening, all holding their gazes firmly on the little plates in their hands, loaded with catfish beignets …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Snow To Helen Thomas: 'Thank You For the Hezbollah View' — In a contentious exchange at this afternoon's White House press briefing, Tony Snow attempted to discredit reporter Helen Thomas by characterizing her comments as "the Hezbollah view." Watch it. — Thomas asked Snow …
Debbie Schlussel:
Most Americans in Lebanon Are Hezbollah Supporters; U.S. Taxes Shouldn't Fund Their Return — **** AS READ ON THE AIR TODAY BY RUSH LIMBAUGH—THANKS, RUSH! **** ALSO, SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE **** — One thing is lost in all the press coverage of the whining Americans who went to Lebanon …
Discussion:
Media Blog on National …
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 …
Milt Freudenheim / New York Times:
A Windfall From Shifts to Medicare — The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people. — And analysts expect the benefits to show up in many of the quarterly financial results that drug makers will begin posting this week.
Discussion:
The Democratic Daily, Senate Majority Project, NathanNewman.org and No More Mister Nice Blog
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Where's The Senate? Where's the Debate? — The House will debate and pass a resolution in support of Israel and its right to defend itself. — The Senate needs to follow suit, and then to take up the resolution it promised to produce post July 4 recess on the publication by the New York Times …