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Nick Wadhams / Associated Press:
U.S., France OK U.N. Mideast truce pact — UNITED NATIONS - The United States and France agreed Saturday on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah but would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked, officials said.
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Ynetnews:
Tyre raid 'heroic operation' — (VIDEO) Senior Navy official describes details of 13th Flotilla's overnight raid on Tyre, which targeted the Hizbullah terror cell responsible for Friday rocket attack on Hadera. IDF's message of deterrence: Long-range fire into Israel will incur immediate consequences
Richard / EU Referendum:
Qana - the director's cut — I have called this post, "the director's cut", as that is what it is. The narrative here is of how the combination of Hezbollah's media management and modern photo-journalism has turned the recording of a tragic event into theatre, in the best tradition of Michael Moore.
Daniel Levy / Haaretz:
Ending the neoconservative nightmare — Witnessing the near-perfect symmetry of Israeli and American policy has been one of the more noteworthy aspects of the latest Lebanon war. A true friend in the White House. No deescalate and stabilize, honest-broker, diplomatic jaw-jaw from this president.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
France, US Agree On Cease-Fire Formulation — France and the US have reached accord on the wording of a UN cease-fire proposal for the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. It calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities by Hezbollah, which started the conflict, and allows Israel to respond if Hezbollah does not comply:
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Ynetnews:
Western Galilee: 3 women killed in rocket attack — Heavy rocket barrage hits north Saturday afternoon: Some 120 rockets land in Ma'alot, Tiberias, Nahariya, Shlomi and Kiryat Shmona within 90 minutes. Mother, her two daughters killed in village of Arab al-Aramshe, near Shlomi, after house suffers direct hit.
Jerusalem Post:
Saudi religious leader blasts Hizbullah — Cairo, Egypt — A top Saudi Sunni cleric, whose ideas inspired Osama bin Laden, issued a religious edict Saturday disavowing the Shi'ite guerrilla group Hizbullah, evidence that a rift remained among Muslims over the fighting in Lebanon.
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Benjamin Harvey / Toronto Star:Hezbollah equipped like the `Syrian or Iranian army'
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
The Last Honest Man — Twenty-nine Democratic senators voted in the fall of 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq. There isn't enough room on this page to list the Democratic foreign policy experts and former officials, including those from the top ranks of the Clinton administration …
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New York Times:
Lieberman Reduces Effort to Get Out Vote — With only three days left to reverse the course of the Democratic primary race, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman is scaling back on the ambitious ground operation that his supporters had hoped would pull him past his challenger, Ned Lamont …
David Sirota / Sirotablog:Neocon Icon Throws Temper Tantrum About Lieberman's Plight
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Baghdad's Chaos Raises Questions on U.S. Plan — Over the past year, as American commanders pushed Iraqi forces to take over responsibility for this violent capital, Baghdad became a markedly more dangerous place. — Now the Americans are being forced to call in more of their own troops to bring the city under control.
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New York Times:
Washington Deal Maker Details Palm Greasing — WASHINGTON — In 1992, Brent R. Wilkes rented a suite at the Hyatt Hotel a few blocks from the Capitol. In his briefcase was a stack of envelopes for a half-dozen congressmen, each packet containing up to $10,000 in checks.
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Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
The Brink of Madness — A familiar place. — National Review Online — When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union …
Spiegel Online:
A Middle Eastern Connection? — A leak from the investigation into a pair of unexploded bombs found on trains in Germany this week has produced a strange detail — a bag printed in Arabic. German officials won't confirm anything, but the case has ignited a national debate about rail security.
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