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4:36 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 …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Making Enemies  —  Hamas and Hizbullah should not be confused with Al Qaeda.  Bush's insistence on doing so shows his failure to understand his foes.  —  July 26, 2006 - Reading "Fiasco," Thomas Ricks's devastating new book about the Iraq war, brought back memories for me.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Agonist
Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
Israel OKs call-up of 30,000 reservists
Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
Pander and Run  —  After years of struggling to define their own approach to post-Sept. 11 foreign policy, Democrats seem finally to have hit on one.  It's called pandering.  In those rare cases when George W. Bush shows genuine sensitivity to America's allies and propounds a broader …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Nitpicker
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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."
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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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Simmering Rage Within the GOP  —  My weekend visitor was one of the founders of the postwar Republican Party in the South, one of those stubborn men who challenged the Democratic rule in his one-party state.  He was conservative enough that in the great struggle for the 1952 nomination …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Near a Vote to Increase U.S. Wage
Discussion: The RBC and AMERICAblog
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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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Detainee Abuse Charges Feared  —  An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts.
Radioblogger.com:
How critical is the Los Angeles Times' condition?  —  A picture, or better yet, a graph, is worth a thousand words.  —  As you can see, in 1970, nearly 1 out of 6 people living in the L.A. basin subscribed to the Los Angeles Times everyday.  While the population has multiplied almost 70% in the 35 years …
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
A Blight Unto the Nations  —  I've felt many emotions about the Israelis before.  I've admired them for their accomplishments — building a flourishing state out of almost nothing.  I've hated them for their systematic dispossession of the Palestinians — even as they smugly congratulated themselves …
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 …
Associated Press:
Cindy Sheehan Buys Property in Crawford  —  War protester Cindy Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre plot in Crawford with some of the insurance money she received after her son was killed in Iraq.  —  The group she helps lead, Gold Star Families for Peace, says on its Web site that it will return next month …
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
 
 
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Bill Crawford / All Things Conservative:
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Haaretz:
Wounded troops describe Bint Jbail battle as 'hell on earth'
Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Poll: Johnson has lead over McKinney
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Spiegel Online:
Anger, Frustration and Humiliation Abound
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BBC:
Al-Qaeda 'to avenge Israel deeds'
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Jerusalem Post:
Cabinet rejects IDF call to expand war
Guardian:
Al-Qaida deputy calls for worldwide war on Israel
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Signs Extension of Voting Rights Act
Discussion: ACSBlog
Detroit News:
Granholm pulls ahead of DeVos
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Hamdan Hoax, Part 3
Reuters:
Source: Reuters  —  July 27 (Reuters) - The following are security …
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Reynolds airs his ads early