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Alan Dershowitz / Los Angeles Times:
'Civilian Casualty'? It Depends — Those who supports terrorists are not entirely innocent. — THE NEWS IS filled these days with reports of civilian casualties, comparative civilian body counts and criticism of Israel, along with Hezbollah, for causing the deaths, injuries and "collective punishment" of civilians.
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New York Times:
U.S. Plan Seeks to Wedge Syria Away From Iran — WASHINGTON, July 22 — As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Israel on Sunday, Bush administration officials say they recognize Syria is central to any plans to resolve the crisis in the Middle East, and they are seeking ways …
New York Post:
CAN ISRAEL WIN? — NOT THE WAY IT'S FIGHTING — July 22, 2006 — ISRAEL is losing this war. For a lifelong Israel supporter, that's a painful thing to write. But it's true. And the situation's worsening each day. — A U.S. government official put it to me this way: "Israel's got the clock, but Hezbollah's got the time."
Ynetnews:
IDF to residents of Southern Lebanon: Leave today — (VIDEO) In message to 13 southern Lebanon towns, broadcast by Arab radio stations, residents informed their lives in danger, told to move north of Litani river. CO Galilee Division: We'll expand operations if we must — Hanan Greenberg
Associated Press:
Israeli Forces Push Through Lebanon Border — ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER — Hundreds of Israeli troops moved into southern Lebanon on Saturday, taking control of a village and engaging Hezbollah militants by land, sea and air as part of the country's limited ground campaign.
Sharon Roffe-Ofir / Ynetnews:
Israel building prison for Lebanese captives — Exclusive: IDF starts building detention compound to be used for holding Hizbullah members that will be captured during fighting in north. Officials: Project attests to government's plans for large-scale ground incursion in Lebanon
Michelle Malkin:
HEZBOLLAH'S FAVORITE NEWSPAPER — Anonymous blabbers and their stenographers at the NYTimes are at it again: … Reader Thomas W. writes: "Michelle, the NYT is doing it again. Throwing one of our best allies under the bus, and openly disclosing future military war plans against our enemies."
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:UNITED NATIONS AN ACCOMPLICE IN HEZBOLLAH KIDNAPPING …
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Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:Lebanon is Iraq for many — The details of analogies always break …
Walid Choucair / Lebanon Daily Star:
Help Lebanon. Send a letter to your government representative. Download a sample letter — Nasrallah's speech gave 5 key insights into Hizbullah's position — Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's interview with Al-Jazeera late Thursday night must have reassured his constituents that his leadership continues to function.
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
NASRALLAH BELIEVES HE'S IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT — In an interview with Al-Jazeera late Thursday night, Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made it absolutely clear who was calling the shots in Lebanon - and it isn't the Lebanese government. — Speaking more like a head of state …
Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Gaza groups agree to stop firing at Israel — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Senior Palestinian officials said militant groups in the Gaza Strip agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight Saturday, if Israel launches no new raids into Gaza. But two main guerrilla groups denied that any agreement had been reached.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Palestinians Reduce Number Of Israeli Fronts?
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
What It All Comes Down To — The new Rasmussen poll is out today, showing Lamont ahead of Lieberman 51-41 in the primary and tied 40-40 in a three way. — We got us a horse race. — There is a very interesting dynamic shaping up here in Connecticut. It looks like it may come …
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Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Marcy Kaptur Endorse Ned! [8]
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
400,000 Frozen Embryos — But only 128 'snowflakes' have been adopted. Will the stem-cell veto hurt the GOP? — July 21, 2006 - There's no daylight between President Bush and what any Democrat is saying about the Middle East conflict. Polls show that Americans sympathize with Israel …
Tunku Varadarajan / Opinion Journal:
The Romance of Economics — Milton and Rose Friedman: Dinner with Keynes? Yes. War with Iraq? They disagree. — PALO ALTO, Calif.—One doesn't interview a man like Milton Friedman—the Nobel laureate in economics in 1976 and among the five or six most consequential thinkers of the 20th century …
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BBC:
Somali Islamist orders 'holy war' — A Somali Islamist leader has ordered a "holy war" to drive out Ethiopian troops, after they entered the country to protect the weak interim government. — "I am calling on the Somali people to wage a holy war against Ethiopians in Somalia," …
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James Wolcott:
THE DAMNED — The war crimes of the United States compound by the minute, the hour, the day. I predict that George Bush, upon leaving office, will be the most despised president in American history. He will have his core support, the clotted, stunted brains that collect at sites …
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Allan Lengel / Washington Post:
Nigerian Entangled In Jefferson Investigation — The corruption investigation of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) has taken many strange twists: an FBI sting that caught the lawmaker on videotape accepting a large payoff; a subsequent raid that turned up $90,000 of that cash in his apartment freezer …
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general — The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan yesterday described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
His rationale is very similar to the rationales used by al Queda to get around religious prohibitions against the killing of innocent civilians. … http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/ vp01.cfm? outfit=pmt&folder=10&paper=540 — Over at Crooked Timber they point out the parrelells with rationales used by the IRA.
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