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9:30 PM ET, July 30, 2006

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Ynetnews:
IDF: Qana building fell hours after strike  —  IDF continuing to check difficult incident at Qana village, and attempting to account for strange gap between time of the strike on the building - midnight - and eight in the morning, when the building collapsed
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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli attack  —  QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said.  It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.  Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead.
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
US: IAF to suspend activity over Lebanon for 48 hours  —  Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon after it bombed a Lebanese village on Sunday and a number of children died, a US official said.  —  The attack marred US Secretary of State Condoleezza …
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
A New Enemy Gains on the U.S.  —  POUND for pound and pounding for pounding, the Israeli military is one of the world's finest.  But Hezbollah, with the discipline and ferocity of its fighters and ability to field advanced weaponry, has taken Israel by surprise.
Washington Post:
More Than 50 Killed in Israeli Airstrike  —  Israeli warplanes blasted a group of buildings in this southern Lebanese village Sunday, killing dozens of people, most of them women and children, according to Lebanese officials.  The Israeli military said the airstrike was aimed …
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan and Truthdig
Chris Link / NEWS.com.au:
Photos that damn Hezbollah  —  THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah.  It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.  —  The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas …
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Israel OKs temporary aerial suspension  —  JERUSALEM - Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon after its bombing of a Lebanese village on Sunday that killed a number of children.  —  The attack marred Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's mission to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Haaretz:
Rice says time for cease-fire after IAF strike kills 54 people in Qana  —  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking after the Israel Air Force strike bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana, said it was time for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
JUST WONDERING  —  This AFP photograph shows Beirut demonstrators …
Discussion: Solomonia
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:   Days of darkness  —  In war as in war: Israel is sinking …
Paul / THE WAR IN CONTEXT:
Civilians in the line of fire
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Israel Agrees To Temporary Suspension
CNN:
Israeli air attack kills 60 civilians, including 19 children
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:   The Show Must Go On  —  A few days ago a friend of mine …
Martin Asser / BBC:
Analysis: A second Qana Massacre?
Discussion: Security Watchtower
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The crazed face of neoconservatism
Seattle Times:
Community responds with sorrow, unity  —  The man accused of barging into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and killing one woman and wounding five others will be prosecuted on state murder and attempted-murder charges rather than federal hate-crime laws, officials said.
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:   L.A. Times Editors: "We Just Can't Solve the Mystery of Why that …
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
'I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel'
Discussion: Gates of Vienna
Susan Levine / Washington Post:
Bills Soar As Many Hit Gap in Drug Plan  —  The calls are starting to come in from shocked or angry seniors.  They have just learned that their Medicare drug plans are maxing out on early coverage and that they must now spend $2,850 from their own pockets before coverage will resume.
Discussion: First Draft and BOPnews
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:   The West Wing Characters Become Lobbyists
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Professionalization of war is ghettoization of war  —  The other day National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez went to see Oliver Stone's new movie ''World Trade Center'' and remarked:  —  "It's about our love of family, and the work we'll do for them, and the joy they bring us.
Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Lebanese PM thanks Hizbullah for 'sacrifices'  —  Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora says during press conference that he expresses his 'full estimation' for Nasrallah, and for all those who sacrifice their lives for Lebanon  —  Lebanese Prime Minister Fuoad Siniora expressed his 'gratitude …
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Report on Prewar Intelligence Lagging  —  Information Democrats Want Most Might Not Come Out Until After Election  —  When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid …
Washington Post:
Mr. Lieberman's Strength  —  IN HIS BATTLE to win Democratic renomination to the U.S. Senate, Joseph I. Lieberman seems to be getting blamed in Connecticut for something that in Washington is an asset — and ought to be understood as such by Democratic voters back home.
 
 
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