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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Israel Will Accept a Disarmed Hezbollah — Envoy Talks of Future As a 'Political Group' — The United States, Israel, the United Nations and the European Union have reluctantly concluded that despite punishing military attacks, Hezbollah is likely to survive as a political player in Lebanon …
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Steve / The News Blog:
Yeah this will work — U.S. Plan Seeks to Wedge Syria From Iran … So, Israel is giving back the Golan Heights? — No? — The corrupt Egyptians, the weak feckless Saudis, and the weak, feckless Jordanians are going to influence Syria? To help Israel? — What the f**k are these people thinking?
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
'Israel would accept NATO on border' — Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Sunday that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the Lebanese border to keep Hizbullah guerrillas away from Israel, according to officials in Peretz's office.
BBC:
Minister condemns Israeli action — Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has criticised Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, while on a visit to Beirut. — He said Israel had not carried out "surgical strikes" and attacking the Lebanese nation was not the answer.
Jerusalem Post:
Iran: Israel doomed to 'destruction' — TEHERAN — Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared Sunday that Israel had "pushed the button of its own destruction" by launching its military campaign against the Iranian-backed Hizbullah in Lebanon. — Ahmadinejad didn't elaborate …
Irving Stolberg / Hartford Courant:
No More Joe — `Dead Wrong' On The War And Defense Of Bush, White House Excesses — Joe Lieberman and I have been friends and colleagues for 38 years. We ran for and won seats in the Connecticut legislature as a team of reformers in 1970. He was my state senator and I was his state representative.
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Time:
Lieberman's Last Stand — The Connecticut senator's almost saintly civility may be coming back to haunt him on Iraq — On a brain-foggingly hot Sunday afternoon in July, a wistful Senator Joseph Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement …
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Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Fatah: Hamas ready to accept deal on ceasefire, release of Shalit — Senior Fatah sources in Gaza said on Saturday that Hamas is ready to accept a deal that involves freeing abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and an end to IDF actions in the Gaza Strip.
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Conspiracy Theories 101 — Andes, N.Y. — KEVIN BARRETT, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has now taken his place alongside Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado as a college teacher whose views on 9/11 have led politicians and ordinary citizens to demand that he be fired.
CBS News:
Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative — In Exclusive Interview, Buckley Criticizes President For Interventionist Policies — (CBS) President Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative." And he continues to nurture his conservative base — even issuing his first veto this week against embryonic stem cell research.
Times of London:
God's army has plans to run the whole Middle East — Hezbollah, the group at the heart of the Lebanese conflict, is the spearhead of Iran's ambitions to be a superpower, says Iranian commentator Amir Taheri — 'You are the sun of Islam, shining on the universe!
Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran — Border guards seized a British lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to build a dirty bomb.
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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
American Landis wins Tour de France — PARIS - The highs and lows of Floyd Landis' nail-biter of a bike race ended without a hitch Sunday as he won the Tour de France and kept cycling's most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year. — The 30-year-old Landis …
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Darrel Rowland / dispatch.com:
Strickland far ahead, early poll indicates — Democrat strong across board; Brown maintains 8-point edge over DeWine in Senate race — Democrat Ted Strickland has surged to a surprising lead of 20 percentage points in the first Dispatch Poll on Ohio's Nov. 7 race for governor.
John from WuzzaDem / WuzzaDem:
He Said/He Said — Hey, did you hear what Glenn Greenwald... Jealous much? — It's Glenn Greenwald! — That's right. I've written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broken a story on my blog about wiretapping that led to front-page stories on most major newspapers …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Insurance Policy Comes Membership — Unbeknown to Some, Those Signing Up With Firm Are Joining Conservative Group — In 2001, Jennifer B. Chace heard an insurance broker's pitch for a new insurance company marketing tax-free medical savings accounts.