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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of vicious combat between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Associated Press:
Hizbullah likely to retain weapons — Hizbullah will not hand over its weapons to the Lebanese government but rather refrain from exhibiting them publicly, according to a new compromise that is reportedly brewing between Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Seniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Ynetnews:
CNN Int'l snubs Israeli civilians — Highly unbalanced report mostly ignores plight of Israeli civilians, portrays Israelis as soldiers and politicians in suits, while coverage from Lebanon features in-depth interviews with Lebanese civilians and images of children and ruins …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Security as Key Issue for Fall — After being outmaneuvered in the politics of national security in the last two elections, Democrats say they are determined not to cede the issue this year and are working to cast President Bush as having diminished the nation's safety.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Gap In Their Armor — The Democratic Party has a self-image problem. — Talk to Democrats at every level about the strong position the party is in for this fall's elections and the conversation inevitably ends with a variation of: "Yeah, if we don't blow it."
Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Israel humbled by arms from Iran — Abandoned Hizbollah positions in Lebanon yesterday revealed conclusive evidence that Syria - and almost certainly Iran - provided the anti-tank missiles that have blunted the power of Israel's once invincible armour. — After one of the fiercest confrontations …
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White House:
President Discusses Foreign Policy During Visit to State Department — Washington, D.C. — In Focus: Global Diplomacy — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today I met with members of my national security team, both here at the State Department and at the Pentagon.
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Our World: The Olmert government must go — From all sides of the political spectrum calls are being raised for the establishment of an official commission of inquiry to investigate the Olmert government's incompetent management of the war in Lebanon. These calls are misguided.
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Haaretz:
IDF General Staff sources: Halutz cannot escape resignation — Senior sources in the Israel Defense Forces General Staff and field officers who took part in the war in Lebanon said on Tuesday that Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, who went to his bank branch and sold an NIS 120,000 investment portfolio …
Ben Webster / Times of London:
Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown — THE Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk. — The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people …
Talking Points Memo:
From TPM Reader DN ... I have mixed feelings about what DN has to say. But I do recognize a lot in it I identify with. TPM has always been pretty aggressive and pugilistic in its politics. The site, after all, started during the 2000 recount, the founding political bad act from which, you might say, everything else followed.
Reuters:
Snow White's dwarfs more famous than US judges: poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday.
Jeffrey Feldman / FRAMESHOP:
'Macaca' or 'Macaque' — News breaking out of Virginia is that Senator George Allen called a person a 'macaca' while on the campaign trail. The person was dark skinned and, as it happens, working for Jim Webb's campaign. — There has been some question as to what this word 'macaca' means …
Times of London:
Wimmin at War — It is 25 years since the Greenham Common protests began. Sarah Baxter was there, but now asks why feminist ideals have become twisted into support for groups like Hezbollah — When Ann Pettitt, the mother of two young children, and her friends set off in August 25 years ago …
Stephen Foley / Independent:
To google or not to google? It's a legal question — Search engine's sense of humour crashes as it fires off warning letters over use of name as a verb — Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra "don't be evil", has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb.
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Bush Signs Law to Save War Memorial Cross — President Bush on Monday signed a law transferring a 29-foot-tall Latin cross high on a hill in San Diego to the federal government, stepping into a long-running dispute over the separation of church and state. — Mr. Bush, in the latest unusual …
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