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1:45 AM ET, July 28, 2006

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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Tide of Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah  —  DAMASCUS, Syria, July 27 — At the onset of the Lebanese crisis, Arab governments, starting with Saudi Arabia, slammed Hezbollah for recklessly provoking a war, providing what the United States and Israel took as a wink and a nod to continue the fight.
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canada.com:
Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield'  —  Canadian wrote of militia's presence, 'necessity' of bombing  —  Joel Kom, with files from Steven Edwards, CanWest News Service, The Ottawa Citizen  —  The words of a Canadian United Nations observer written just days before he was killed …
Haaretz:
IAF knocks out Hezbollah missile command in Tyre  —  The Israel Air Force on Thursday scored a successful direct hit against Hezbollah's missile command center deployed in Tyre, which has been primarily responsible for targeting Haifa and its surroundings.  The regional command center …
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Pulp Fiction  —  I am going to write a completely speculative piece on the fighting in Lebanon.  It's born of a need to make sense of events which on the face of it are incomprehensible, though by so doing the post detaches itself from verifiable fact.  The reader is warned.
New York Times:
Cease-Fire Talks Stall as Fighting Rages on 2 Fronts  —  Heavy fighting delayed the evacuation of wounded Israeli soldiers on Wednesday.  They were taken to Haifa.  —  AVIVIM, Israel, July 26 — Israel's two-front conflict saw its heaviest day of fighting on Wednesday, killing 9 Israeli soldiers …
Murray Brewster / canada.com:
Clinton calls on western leaders to broker Lebanese ceasefire  —  HALIFAX (CP) - The United States and other western countries should be pushing hard for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, along with the insertion of an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, former U.S. president Bill Clinton said Wednesday.
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Making Enemies  —  Hamas and Hizbullah should not be confused with Al Qaeda.
Discussion: The Agonist
Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
Israel OKs call-up of 30,000 reservists
Jerusalem Post:
Report: Nasrallah is in Damascus
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
For Some Jews, Israel and Iraq Cloud View on Lieberman  —  HARTFORD, July 26 — Lesley Korzennik walked into a diner in Norwalk recently hoping to vent her frustrations with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman — over his continued support for the war, among a litany of other things.  "I'm furious at him," she said.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Does The Times Have A 'Gentlemen's Agreement" With Ned Lamont?  —  Jennifer Medina of the NY Times has been covering the Lieberman-Lamont Democratic primary brawl in Connecticut and today she touches a nerve: … Well, well - let's skip straight to the mud-slinging.  This is from some recent Times coverage of Ned Lamont:
Sandra Jones / Chicago Tribune:
Wal-Mart focus on close-in suburbs  —  Passage of city bill requiring big-box stores to pay `living wage' likely to cause retail giant to turn to strategy of ringing city with Supercenters  —  The world's largest retailer suffered a blow on Wednesday when Chicago aldermen passed a bill …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Near a Vote to Increase U.S. Wage  —  WASHINGTON, July 27 — Under intense pressure from their moderate wing, House Republican leaders moved on Thursday toward allowing a vote Friday on an increase in the minimum wage before sending anxious lawmakers home for a month of campaigning in the battle for control of Congress.
Discussion: The RBC and AMERICAblog
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Simmering Rage Within the GOP
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Even neoconservatives now accepting defeat in Iraq  —  David Frum was one of the leading neoconservative advocates of the invasion of Iraq.  The former Bush speechwriter is a true believer, having co-authored a radical neoconservative book with Richard Perle entitled An End to Evil …
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Jennifer McKee / missoulian.com:
Conrad Burns chastises Hotshots over Billings fire  —  HELENA - Republican Sen. Conrad Burns chastised a group of firefighters over the weekend for doing a "poor job" of squelching a 92,000-acre blaze near Billings, a state report shows.  —  Burns and the firefighters …
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Reynolds airs his ads early  —  Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), who is in charge of keeping Congress in GOP hands this fall, surprised the political establishment yesterday by airing an early television advertisement that made no mention of his party affiliation.
BBC:
Al-Qaeda 'to avenge Israel deeds'  —  Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has said in a video the militant network will respond to attacks on Muslims in Lebanon and Gaza.  —  The video was broadcast by Arabic television station al-Jazeera.  —  Al-Qaeda could not remain silent in the face of a …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
A Few Questions  —  Why does the president call the secretary of state "Condi"?  And what exactly is his philosophy?  —  Why does President Bush refer in public to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "Condi"?  Did Dwight Eisenhower call his Secretary of State "Johnny"?
Stephen Collinson / Agence France Presse:
Rice has Mideast on her mind at Asian summit  —  KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took a day off from her bid to untangle the Middle East crisis, but fallout from the fighting trailed her to an East Asia security summit.  —  Rice flew all night from Europe to Malaysia …
Discussion: All Spin Zone
Rolling Stone:
Iran: The Next War  —  Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country.  Their covert campaign once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies.  But this time, the target was Iran.  BY JAMES BAMFORD
CNN:
Democrats launch 'Six for '06' agenda  —  Party unveils campaign themes, says elections will be about Bush  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Senate's top Democrat says 1994's "Contract with America," the Republican campaign agenda the year the GOP regained control of Congress — was an "urban myth."
 
 
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The Bush Administration Draft Hamdan Response Bill
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Andrew Sullivan
Guardian:
Al-Qaida deputy calls for worldwide war on Israel
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Bush Signs Extension of Voting Rights Act
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Reuters:
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