memeorandum: Israeli air force continue Lebanon strikes (Associated Press)

12:00 PM ET, July 31, 2006

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Israeli air force continue Lebanon strikes — JERUSALEM - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said.

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Guardian:

As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis — Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre — Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee.

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:

Crisis Could Undercut Bush's Long-Term Goals — The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults. They struck at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and illustrated in heart-breaking images …

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Michael J. Totten:

Hezbollah's Coup d'État — The fog of war makes it impossible for me or anyone else to determine whether or not Israel's war against Hezbollah is succeeding of failing militarily. But it's painfully obvious that Israel's attempt to influence Lebanese politics in its favor is an absolute catastrophe right now.

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Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Many Arabs Applaud Hezbollah

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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Rice to Seek Mideast Cease-Fire Through UN

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New York Times:
Israel Suspending Lebanon Air Raids After Dozens Die

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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:

Child Victims Incite Anger in Lebanon and Beyond — The images of the dead children in southern Lebanon played across the television screens on Sunday over and over again — small and caked in dirt and as lifeless as rag dolls as rescuers hauled them from the wreckage of several residential …

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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
From Carnage in Lebanon, a Concession

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Haaretz:
Senior government source: Despite IAF curbs, there is no cease-fire

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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:

'The Putting of First Things First' — The revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats. It's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968. — To the consternation of my children, I once spent an afternoon with Monica Lewinsky.

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Sisyphus Shrugged: sigh.

Guardian:

'They found them huddled together' — More than 60 people, including 34 children, killed by Israeli attack on home where families were sheltering — Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Jonathan Steele and Clancy Chassay in Qana; Rory McCarthy at the Israel-Lebanon border; Wendell Steavenson in Beirut and Julian Borger in Washington

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Independent:
Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'

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Observer: Cabinet in open revolt over Blair's Israel policy

New York Times:

Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job — ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Alan Beggerow has stopped looking for work. Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college. But when that ended, he could not find a job that, in his view, was neither demeaning nor underpaid.

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David Abel / Boston Globe:

Romney apologizes for use of expression — To some, `tar baby' is racial pejorative — Governor Mitt Romney yesterday apologized for using the expression ``tar baby" — a phrase some consider a racial epithet — among comments he made at a political gathering in Iowa over the weekend.

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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:

And Now, The Good News — The world seems aswirl. Where do we stand today? — Let's use the analysis of bestselling author Thomas Barnett, who divides the world into a functioning "Core" (North America, Europe, East Asia, rising China and India) and a nonfunctional "Gap" (the Middle East …

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Reuven Koret / Israel Insider:

Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged — It was to be a perfect Hollywood ending for Hezbollah. Just as the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana in 1996 brought a premature end to Israel's Operation "Grapes of Wrath," so too a sequel of Qana II could change …

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Pew Research Center:

Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership — Maturing Internet News Audience Broader Than Deep — Overview — A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online.

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

It Pays to Be a Print Journalist — in Films — In "Scoop," Woody Allen's latest film, Scarlett Johansson plays a cub newspaper reporter who teams with a bumbling magician (Allen) and the ghost of a dead journalist (Ian McShane) to catch a serial murderer. — Although we can't vouch …

Craig Howie / Scotsman:

Jewish groups call for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson — JEWISH groups have demanded Mel Gibson be investigated for hate crimes after the Hollywood star allegedly made anti-Semitic comments to US police officers when he was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving and speeding.