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3:50 PM ET, July 21, 2006

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Fouad Ajami / Opinion Journal:
Hostage to Hezbollah  —  Lesson for Nasrallah: "The violence done to Lebanon shall overwhelm you."  —  Pity Lebanon: In a world of states, it has not had a state of its own.  A garden without fences, was the way Beirut, its capital city, was once described.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
To Save a Revolution  —  You could sense the hurt and anger as Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora pleaded this week to the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats in Beirut for a halt to Israeli attacks on Lebanese targets.  "The country has been torn to shreds," he said.  "I hope you will not let us down."
BBC:
Israel calls up army reservists  —  Israel has called up thousands of reserve troops and told civilians to quit southern Lebanon immediately, amid threats of a large-scale incursion.  —  Israeli troops are already fighting Hezbollah inside Lebanon and have been heavily shelling the border area.
Juan / Informed Comment:
Israelis Bomb Beirut, Baalbak Again  —  Tank Incursion in South
Discussion: Mere Rhetoric
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace  —  President Bush's unwillingness to pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in Lebanon is rooted in a view of the Middle East conflict that is sharply different from that of his predecessors.  —  When hostilities have broken out in the past …
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Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Pacifists versus peace  —  One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality.  They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts.
Josh Manchester / TCS Daily:
Shaken and Stirred  —  The US invasion of Iraq has so shaken and stirred the Middle East that some exceptionally strange things are happening.  More importantly, these things unequivocally favor the US in influencing the outcome of the Israeli-Hezbollah War now taking place in Lebanon.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Centrist Democrats Ponder How To Counter Netroots  —  At a time when centrism has become a dirty word in some Democratic Party circles, hundreds of the party's avowed moderates are convening in Denver this weekend to discuss their agenda for this fall's election and the presidential contest in 2008.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:   Privilege Breeds Bad Campaigning
Hartford Courant:
Two N.J. Casinos Sued Schlesinger Over Debts  —  When Alan Schlesinger gave a fake name while playing blackjack at Foxwoods in the early 1990s, he had already been sued over a gambling debt by one Atlantic City casino and was on the way to racking up an even bigger debt that led to a second lawsuit.
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Reuters:
Banned cleric begs UK: Save me  —  LONDON, England (Reuters) — A hard-line Muslim cleric barred from Britain for glorifying violence said on Friday he tried to get on board a British warship to flee Beirut but was turned back.  —  "The answer was, 'unless you have a British passport …
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Michael J. Berlin / Washington Post:
A Secret the Media Kept  —  Toward the end of 1979, hundreds of American and Canadian journalists and news organizations got hold of a dynamite news story that would have made personal reputations and careers and sent circulation or broadcast ratings soaring.  The facts were confirmed, unassailably.
Austan Goolsbee / New York Times:
Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs, to Tell if a Nation Will Recover From War  —  WITH repeated Shiite and Sunni killings in Iraq, the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel, Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, the assaults by the Taliban and counterassaults by American forces in Afghanistan …
Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Sources: Negroponte Blocks CIA Analysis of Iraq "Civil War"  —  I reported in May that despite the deteriorating situation in Iraq, no National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has been produced on that country since the summer of 2004.  The last NIE, a classified document that the CIA describes as …
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Top-Secret World Loses Blogger  —  CIA Contractor Is Fired When Internal Post Crosses the Line  —  Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it.  —  Only people with top-secret security clearances …
Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Israel calls up troops, warns Lebanese  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel called up reserve troops Friday and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon, as it prepared for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone.  —  Hezbollah militants fired at least 11 rockets …
Asaf Carmel / Haaretz:
Israelis renounce membership in world journalist federation in protest at condemnation of Al-Manar strike  —  A group of Israeli journalists renounced their membership in the International Federation of Journalists yesterday, after the organization's general secretary refused to retract …
Discussion: Mere Rhetoric, CBS News and Media Blog
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate  —  A Senate surveillance bill personally negotiated by President Bush and Vice President Cheney ran into immediate trouble this week, as Democrats and other critics attacked the proposal while key GOP leaders in the House endorsed a different bill on the same topic.
Carsten Lietz / Reuters:
Germany seeks EU ban on stem-cell research funding  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany pressed its EU partners to ban European funding for embryonic stem-cell research, a day after President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded such work in the United States.
Will Lester / Associated Press:
Democrats ready to shake up primary; Lynch warns of chaos  —  WASHINGTON —Democrats are prepared to jumble the states in the presidential primary calendar to add more diversity in early voting, prompting the governor of soon-to-be-slighted New Hampshire to warn of chaos in the nominating process.
 
 
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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Cheney uses Mideast as campaign issue
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Reuters:
Massachusetts same-sex marriage pioneers split up
DMI Blog:
the Right has no solution to poverty (shocking!)
Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein
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Ben Stein / American Spectator:
Out of Disproportion
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Heeee's Baaack!!!  —  Steve Clemons reports that Richard Lugar …
Discussion: MyDD and The Washington Note
John Dickerson / Slate:
Message: I Respect  —  THE PRESIDENT ACES HIS NAACP SPEECH.
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