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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 …
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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.
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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 / 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.
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 …
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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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 …
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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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Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
In First Veto, Bush Blocks Stem Cell Bill — President Bush today used the first veto of his presidency to stop legislation that would have lifted restrictions on federally funded human embryonic stem cell research. — "This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope …
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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 …
Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cagle tops Reed for GOP nomination — In the end, Ralph Reed couldn't do for himself what he had helped Republicans do all the way up to the White House: Get elected. — Despite the backing of top conservatives including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Georgia Gov. Zell Miller …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change — This morning on Fox, Bill Kristol continued to escalate his calls for war against Iran, stating, "We can try diplomacy. I'm not very hopeful about that. We have to be ready to use force."
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
In Iraq, Civil War All but Declared — Officials see the latest killings — 130 lives in two days — as a slide into a full-scale conflict. — BAGHDAD — Retaliatory massacres by gunmen and bombers linked to rival Muslim sects have left more than 130 people dead across Iraq over the last two days …
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
An Exclusive Mini-Interview With Mimi Miyagi — Yesterday, I got together with Mimi Miyagi, a former porn star running for Governor of Nevada as a Republican. Her campaign is quite a ways back in the polls at the moment, but I thought she'd still be a fun interview — and she was!
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 …
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Our World: How I spent my summer vacation — Northern Israel is a vacationer's paradise. From hiking trails to walk on, to rivers to swim in, to luxury hotels to bask in, to mystical sites to seek inspiration from, it has something for everyone. This is why, when last week I took …
Niall Stanage / New York Observer:
U.N. Drama Unfolds, Times Runs Wire Copy — The story had everything: secret agents, political intrigue, personal betrayal and cash. Lots and lots of cash. — Yet, for all that, a remarkable trial that ended last week in a Manhattan courtroom—a proceeding that implicated figures …
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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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Haaretz:
Security forces nab Palestinian in Sharon for suicide attack bid — Security forces on Wednesday arrested in the town of Hod Hasharon a Palestinian suspected of planning to carry out a suicide bombing in the Sharon region. — Security forces also arrested a man in Kafr Qasem suspected …
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