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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.
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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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 …
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.
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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 — 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.
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 …
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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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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 …
Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Poll: Johnson has lead over McKinney — A new poll by Insider Advantage shows challenger Hank Johnson with a hefty lead over incumbent Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic run-off for the 4th District congressional race. — The poll shows Johnson leading McKinney, 46 to 21 percent, with a third of voters undecided.
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Enrique Krauze / Washington Post:
Kidnapping Mexican Democracy — MEXICO CITY — To illustrate the "ad terrorem" method by which truth was imposed in totalitarian societies, Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski told a story: Two girls race each other in a park, the one who is behind repeatedly proclaiming at the top of her lungs, "I'm winning!
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