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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Lebanon: The Only Exit Strategy — There is crisis and there is opportunity. Amid the general wringing of hands over the seemingly endless and escalating Israel-Hezbollah fighting, everyone asks: Where will it end? — The answer, blindingly clear, begins with understanding …
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Ynetnews:
IAF foils rocket transports from Syria — While army continues to strike Hizbullah, limit its weapons resources, outside groups trying to rearm group. IAF manages to bomb trucks transporting missiles from Syria. IDF Maj.-Gen. Eisenkot: These rockets belong to Syrian army — Hanan Greenberg
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Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
Two soldiers killed as ground troops clash with Hizbullah — Two soldiers from an elite unit were killed, it was released for publication Wednesday afternoon, and five were wounded as IDF ground forces engaged in a heavy exchange of fire with Hizbullah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the northern border near Moshav Avivim.
Michelle Malkin:
HEZBOLLAH IS HERE — ***scroll for updates*** — My syndicated column today begins: … Read the rest at JWR for the details. — Internet photographer/videographer Zombie drives the point home further with a vivid photo/video exposé of Hezbollah sympathizers in San Francisco on July 13 …
New York Times:
U.S. Appears to Be Waiting to Act on Israeli Airstrikes — WASHINGTON, July 18 — The outlines of an American-Israeli consensus began to emerge on Tuesday in which Israel would continue to bombard Lebanon for about another week to degrade the capabilities of the Hezbollah militia, officials of the two countries said.
Lysandra Ohrstrom / Lebanon Daily Star:
Latest targets of air blitz: milk and medicine — BEIRUT: Israel switched gears in its military campaign against Lebanon Monday and Tuesday, launching a series of debilitating air strikes against privately owned factories throughout the country and dealing a devastating blow …
Michelle Malkin / Jewish World Review:
Hezbollah is already here — You think Hezbollah is only Israel's headache? Wake up. Iranian Hezbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli's threat on Tuesday to dispatch 2,000 operatives "to every corner of the world to jeopardize Israel and America's interests" is more than just idle Islamic heavy-breathing.
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Evacuations Underway in Beirut — Israel Continues Deadly Airstrikes; Hezbollah Fires Scores of Rockets — BEIRUT, July 18 — By helicopter and ship, hundreds of Americans and Europeans fled on Tuesday from Beirut, ending its first week of siege, as casualties mounted in deadly Israeli raids …
Haaretz:
Two children killed in Katyusha rocket strike on Nazareth — A Hezbollah rocket attack on the northern town of Nazareth killed two Israeli children on Wednesday afternoon, bringing to 16 the death toll from rocket strikes since the crisis in Lebanon began a week ago.
Dennis Ross / USA Today:
U.S. should help construct an 'Arab umbrella' — As someone who helped to negotiate an end to the Israeli-Hezbollah battles in 1993 and '96, when Katyusha rockets forced the public in northern Israel into bomb shelters and the Israeli military destroyed Lebanese infrastructure and forced Lebanese …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:With Israeli Use of Force, Debate Over Proportion
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New York Times:Arming of Hezbollah Reveals U.S. and Israeli Blind Spots
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Hotline On Call:
Reed's Rise And Fall Writ Small — As state party chair, Ralph Reed led GA Republicans to historic victories in '02. They elected a governor for the first time since Reconstruction, knocked off an incumbent U.S. Senator, gained a majority in the state Senate and made gains in the state House.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Four in 10 Republicans Would Not Find McCain an "Acceptable" Nominee — Clinton, Edwards, Gore most acceptable possible Democratic nominees — PRINCETON, NJ — A recent Gallup Panel poll asked Republicans and Democrats whether they would find each of several possible contenders …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy — At a moment when his conservative coalition is already under strain over domestic policy, President Bush is facing a new and swiftly building backlash on the right over his handling of foreign affairs. — Conservative intellectuals …
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says — Residents gathered at the site of Tuesday's suicide bombing. The importance of Kufa to Shiites underlined the intensely sectarian nature of the attack. — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 18 — An average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed …
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Lois Romano / Washington Post:
GOP Unveils School Voucher Plan — $100 Million Proposal Targets Low-Income Students — The Bush administration and Republican legislators yesterday proposed a $100 million national plan to offer low-income students private-school vouchers to escape low-performing public schools.
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Youssef Ibrahim / New York Sun:
Arab Majority May Not Stay Forever Silent — Yes, world, there is a silent Arab majority that believes that seventh-century Islam is not fit for 21st-century challenges. That women do not have to look like walking black tents. That men do not have to wear beards and robes, act like lunatics …
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Jordanian who killed 2 U.S. soldiers dies — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Jordanian who killed two U.S. soldiers last month was fatally wounded in a clash with security forces, a senior Iraqi official said Tuesday. Diyar Ismail Mahmoud, known as Abu al-Afghani, was identified as the killer of the two soldiers …
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Nick Wadhams / Associated Press:
Iraqi civilian toll 6,000 for May, June — UNITED NATIONS - Nearly 6,000 civilians were slain across Iraq in May and June, a spike in deaths that coincided with rising sectarian attacks across the country, the United Nations said Tuesday. — The report from the U.N. Assistance Mission …
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
In Which I Condemn Glenn Greenwald for Failing to Condemn Some Stuff — I have a screenshot of that Sadly, No! online store with the T-shirts advocating the murder of conservatives — the one Glenn Greenwald failed to condemn. But before we get to the screenshot, let's recap, for humor purposes.
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David P. Barash / Los Angeles Times:
When Man Mated Monkey — Icky as it sounds, we mingled across species in the past, which could help us win evolution wars in the future. — GENETICISTS studying human and chimpanzee DNA have concluded that a few million years ago, pre-humans and pre-chimps produced hybrids between the two species.
Valerie Basheda / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
McKinney headed for runoff with Johnson — U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney is headed to a runoff against a relatively unknown challenger in a Democratic primary she was expected to win with ease. — The controversial 4th District incumbent, accused of striking a Capitol Hill police officer last March …
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the dissident frogman:
France must act: war on Israel! • La France doit agir : guerre contre Israël! — If I was to tell you that another French public figure is calling for 'action' against Israel, you would probably shrug and mumble "right, just another of those anti-globalization morons …
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