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Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
ANALYSIS: Giving the war an image of victory, not a draw — Borrowing from the world of soccer beloved to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Israel Defense Forces operation in Lebanon went into overtime on Monday. — Olmert wants to take another stab at a decisive conclusion before the UN Security Council blows the final whistle.
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CNN:
Key Republican breaks with Bush on Mideast — Nebraska's Sen. Hagel calls for immediate cease-fire — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Urging President Bush to turn all U.S. efforts toward "ending this madness," a leading Republican senator Monday broke with the Bush administration and called for an immediate cease-fire in the Mideast.
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
Jaws of Defeat — The United States and Israel and every sentient being in the path of the Islamist crusade are teetering on the brink of a massive defeat in Lebanon and thus in the war on terror. Lest it be forgotten, this is a war that began with the Ayatollahs' revolution in Iran in 1979 …
Lebanon.Profile / Lebanese Political Journal:
When is Israel Wrong? — A Rant. As I've said, what does Israel realistically hope to accomplish? — I'm serious in asking this question. If Israel isn't wrong right now, when will the US, the international community, the rest of the world, and Israelis ever admit that Israel does horribly atrocious things?
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Ned Lamont on the Colbert Report — Stephen Colbert interviewed Ned Lamont tonight about the upcoming Connecticut primary. — Some rough transcript quotes from Ned: … Ned did an outstanding job at handling the tough interviews Stephen Colbert gives. He was quick with the responses and presented his platform very well.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Primary Lesson for Lieberman — Consider the uncanny similarity between Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign for reelection in Connecticut last weekend and a certain political weekend in New York 26 years ago. — In Connecticut, four Senate Democrats pleaded with the party's rank and file …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Will the Center Hold? — A moderate senator and a far-left congresswoman face tough Democratic primary challenges. — Two primaries next week will tell a lot about the strength of the hard-left wing of the Democratic party. In Connecticut, moderate Sen. Joe Lieberman faces …
Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:Lieberman's shameless race baiting flyer (and a few words)
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Anita Snow / Associated Press:
Castro relinquishes power before surgery — HAVANA - Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night and told Cubans he underwent surgery. — The Cuban leader said he had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress …
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Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
fidel castro Death Watch, Take 2846 — BREAKING NEWS: — Local news is reporting that fidel castro has "temporarily" handed power of the communist nation over to his brother Raul. Details are sketchy at the moment, but reports are that he was suffering from "intestinal ailments."
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Democrats Unite on Iraq Withdrawal Demands — Twelve Democratic leaders of the House and Senate have urged President Bush in a strongly worded letter to begin withdrawing the 130,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by year's end, a sign that Democrats may be uniting on a key election-year issue that has divided the party.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
The Gibson Affair: A Defining Hollywood Moment — So is Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic spew really headline news — or is it just another celebrity DUI? Another high-profile addition to The Smoking Gun's mug shot gallery (Nick and Glen, meet your new buddy Mel)? Monologue fodder for Leno, Letterman, Conan, and Kimmel?
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraq's Vice President Criticizes Israel — Iraq's vice president on Monday accused Israel of carrying out "massacres" in Lebanon, the strongest criticism yet of the Jewish state by a top official of the U.S-backed Iraqi government. — Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite …
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Jerusalem Post:
IDF exchanges heavy fire with Hizbullah in south Lebanon — Intense clashes erupted on Tuesday morning between IDF paratroopers and Hizbullah terrorists in the southern Lebanese town of Ayta a-Shab. — Heavy gunfights were reported involving light machine guns and rockets.
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Scott Guiterrez / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Suspect in Jewish Federation shootings recently baptized — Man who grew up Muslim drifted from Christianity — RICHLAND — Naveed Haq, now widely portrayed as a Muslim American so angry at Israel that he shot up a Jewish charity in Seattle, had recently converted to Christianity.
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Claudia Rowe / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Shooting exposes the war at home — Tension simmers here, but rarely reaches the surface — In intellectual Seattle, where even the most fractious political debates can be discussed over coffee, Friday's shooting at the Jewish Federation building left both pro- and anti-Israeli activists struggling …
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