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Confederate Yankee:
Were the Qana Bodies Staged? — These questions and others are beginning to mount as the discrepancies in Hezbollah's versions of events start to fall apart: … Assuredly, Hezbollah's supporters will accuse those questioning the Qana attacks as conspiracy theorists, so I simply advise …
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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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War and Piece
Washington Post:
Israel's Olmert Rules Out Cease-Fire — U.N. Postpones Meeting on Multinational Force for Southern Lebanon — Israel rejected the prospect of a cease-fire in the coming days in its war with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, launching new ground and air operations against the radical Shiite Muslim group …
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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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.
Jerusalem Post:
'Hizbullah has only few launchers left' — The IDF assessed on Monday that Hizbullah's rocket launching capability was significantly compromised by the fighting that took place in the past three weeks. — It was estimated that, while the organization still has hundreds of rockets …
Richard / EU Referendum:
Who is this man? — If he had been a genuine rescue worker, he would deserve a medal.
Who is this man? — If he had been a genuine rescue worker, he would deserve a medal.
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
Jaws of Defeat — The United States and Israel and every sentient …
Jaws of Defeat — The United States and Israel and every sentient …
Human Rights Watch News Releases:
Israel/Lebanon: Israel Responsible for Qana Attack
Israel/Lebanon: Israel Responsible for Qana Attack
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Reuters, THE WAR IN CONTEXT, The Next Hurrah, The Angry Arab News … and From Beirut to the Beltway
Henry A. Kissinger / Washington Post:
The Next Steps With Iran — Negotiations Must Go Beyond the Nuclear Threat to Broader Issues — The world's attention is focused on the fighting in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, but the context leads inevitably back to Iran. Unfortunately, the diplomacy dealing with that issue is constantly outstripped by events.
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Iran Hangs in Suspense as War Offers New Strength, and Sudden Weakness
Iran Hangs in Suspense as War Offers New Strength, and Sudden Weakness
Haaretz:
France says Iran is respected, stabilizing force in Middle East
France says Iran is respected, stabilizing force in Middle East
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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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Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:
Lieberman's shameless race baiting flyer (and a few words)
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."
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Mel Gibson's Meltdown — HE IS SICK TO HIS EMPTY CORE WITH JEW-HATRED. — I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious essay, about how to tell a real anti-Semite from a person who too-loudly rejects the charge of anti-Semitism, when a near-perfect real-life example came to hand.
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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.
John Solo / Associated Press:
Gitmo Guards Often Attacked by Detainees — The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.
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housedemocrats.gov:
Dear Mr. President, Simply Staying the Course in Iraq is Not Working — Washington, DC—With violence exploding in Iraq, there is little evidence that the Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have a coherent strategy to stabilize Iraq. Thousands have been killed in sectarian …
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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Appeals court hears from lawyers in DeLay ballot battle — NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals panel indicated today that the ability of Republicans to replace former U.S. Rep. Tom Delay on the ballot rests on whether there was "conclusive" evidence that he had moved to Virginia.
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Fla. Republicans won't back Rep. Harris — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state Republican Party bluntly told Rep. Katherine Harris (news, bio, voting record) that she couldn't win this fall's Senate election and that the party wouldn't support her campaign, a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press shows.
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Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:
AMATEUR HOUR — On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian. Internet journalism, according to those who produce manifestos on its behalf, represents a world-historical development—not so much because of the expressive power of the new medium as because of its accessibility to producers and consumers.