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Scheherezade Faramarzi / Associated Press:
Hezbollah Says Israeli Response a Surprise — A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrilla group did not expect Israel to react so strongly to its capture of two Israeli soldiers. — Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of Hezbollah's political arm, also told The Associated Press …
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Alan M. Dershowitz / Chicago Tribune:
How the UN legitimizes terrorists — If anyone wonders why the UN has rendered itself worse than irrelevant in the Arab-Israeli conflict, all he or she need do is read UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's July 20 statement. Annan goes to great pains to suggest equal fault and moral equivalence between …
Lucy Williamson / BBC:
Israelis accused of 'human shields' tactic — The Israeli army has been accused of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an operation in northern Gaza. — According to the Israeli human rights group, B'tselem, six civilians including two minors were subjected to the illegal tactic during …
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Jennifer Harper / Washington Times:
50 percent of U.S. says Iraq had WMDs — Half of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded the country in 2003 — up from 36 percent last year, a Harris poll finds. Pollsters deemed the increase both "substantial" and "surprising" …
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Guardian:
Palestinian groups agree deal for return of Israeli — Hamas leaders in Damascus are last obstacle to Gaza ceasefire — Conal Urquhart in Ramallah — Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have agreed to stop firing rockets at Israel and to free a captured Israeli soldier …
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BBC:
Gaza offensive 'disproportionate' — The UN's top humanitarian official Jan Egeland has described Israel's month-long military offensive in Gaza as a "disproportionate use of force". — Mr Egeland, who is in Gaza to assess the damage, said he was shocked by the targeting of civilian infrastructure including Gaza's only power plant.
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Richard Cohen / Real Clear Politics:A Proportionate Response is Madness
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Spazeboy and Me Get Chucked By Holy Joe, Bush-Style — I drove all the way up to Waterbury yesterday excited about the prospect of seeing Bill Clinton speak. Whatever one may think of Bill, his politics and his legacy, his defiance in the face of the right-wing hate machine onslaught are inspirational.
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spazeboy:
Access Denied — What do you do when the people you represent want to be represented by someone else? What do you do when the your highest approval ratings come from members of the party you claim to differentiate yourself from? What do you do when you're down and desperate?
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CNN:
U.N.: Israeli airstrike hits U.N. observer post — Sources: Condoleezza Rice floats plan to end conflict — BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike hit a United Nations post in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing at least two of the agency's observers, according to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Why People Don't Think Democrats Believe What They Say — The habit of the Democratic Party to kill itself via self-referential meta-talk was on full display at the DLC meeting yesterday. Tell me if you can find what is wrong with the message coming out of the conference. From the Mercury News:
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The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill — #1 Michelle Persaud, 27 — Staff counsel — Michelle Persaud's delicate features burst into a smile as she describes the mistake many men make with her. — Seeing her dark eyes and mocha skin, her flowing black tresses and expansive lashes …
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Guardian:
Stand up to US, voters tell Blair — 63% say PM has tied Britain too close to White House — Britain should take a much more robust and independent approach to the United States, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today, which finds strong public opposition to Tony Blair's close working relationship with President Bush.
USA Today:
60 years later, NPR's Schorr is still a 'precious resource' — The media mix By Peter Johnson — Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam? (Answer: Korea.)
Beth Harris / Associated Press:
Fox News Calls Olbermann 'Over the Line' — PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes responded to Keith Olbermann's latest critical volley against Bill O'Reilly on Monday, saying the MSNBC host's behavior "is over the line." — Ailes, appearing Monday …
Jon Ward / Washington Times:
Rales uses addicts at rally — Josh Rales, a Democratic candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, paid a drug-treatment center in Baltimore to drive its recovering addicts to last week's debate in College Park, where they held signs supporting his campaign.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Baltimore Sun:
The good humor man … WASHINGTON // Back when Tony Snow was free to speak his mind, he lambasted the news media and President Bush with almost gleeful abandon. — Journalists were elitists who "tend to look on the American public with finicky disdain," Snow wrote in a 2004 Web column.
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