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Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Disinformation, secrecy, deception: How the Gaza offensive came about — Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public - all these stood behind the Israel Defense Forces “Cast Lead” operation against Hamas targets …
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Bradley Burston / Haaretz:
Bradley Burston / The worst anti-Israel charges you'll hear in wartime — It is, abruptly and again, wartime. Across the globe, the selective pacifists of the left and the recliner Rambos of the right are spoiling for their next battle, the war in Gaza. — They will fight one another …
Hana Levi Julian / Arutz Sheva:
IDF Releases Photos of Hamas Targets, Terror Training Facilities — (IsraelNN.com) The IDF on Saturday night released aerial photos of Hamas facilities targeted by IAF fighter pilots on Saturday in Operation ‘Cast Lead.’ — The photos show the military training facilities Hamas has developed in Gaza …
Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
Israel Strikes Back — I will be updating this post. Scroll down for news posts and updates. — I have logged on to my computer after the Jewish Sabbath and discovered that the Israeli government has finally done something it should have done a very long time ago. — We have hit Hamas hard.
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BBC:
Eyewitness: Chaos in Gaza — The BBC's Rushdi Abou Alouf in the Gaza Strip described the chaos as Israeli warplanes fired missiles at Hamas targets, killing at least 155 Palestinians. — Israeli planes are still flying over Gaza and they have just targeted another Hamas [security] …
New York Times:
Israeli Attack Kills Scores Across Gaza — GAZA CITY — The Israeli Air Force on Saturday launched a massive attack on Hamas targets throughout Gaza in retaliation for the recent heavy rocket fire from the area, hitting mostly security headquarters, training compounds and weapons storage facilities …
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Ynetnews:
IDF mobilizing tanks in event of Gaza ground incursion — IDF prepares to intensify operation against Hamas infrastructure in Gaza, sending tanks and infantry reinforcements southward in preparation for possible ground incursion. Throughout day IAF carried out strikes on nearly 100 Hamas targets …
Jerusalem Post:IDF amasses forces near Gaza ahead of possible ground op.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
GOP chair ‘appalled’ by ‘Magic Negro’ CD — Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan issued a statement Saturday distancing the party's leadership from one of the GOP's best-known operatives, Chip Saltsman, who distributed a CD containing “Barack the Magic Negro” …
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Rebecca Sinderbrand / CNN:
RNC chairman condemns ‘Magic Negro’ song — (CNN) — The chairman of the Republican National Committee said he was “appalled” by a song called “Barack the Magic Negro” on a CD distributed by one of his political rivals. — “The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach …
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New York Times:
As a Candidate, Kennedy Is Forceful but Elusive — Caroline Kennedy, the woman who would be New York's next senator, is sure of one thing. Among all the hopefuls seeking to succeed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, she said on Saturday, there is no better choice.
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Hilzoy / Washington Monthly:
The Disaster In Tennessee — I'm late to this story, but: what's happening in Tennessee sounds horrific: … This is much bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill. You can see aerial video here. I find it disturbing that the amount of fly ash now thought to have been released is over twice …
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Corydon Ireland / Harvard University Gazette:
Samuel Huntington, 81, political scientist, scholar — ‘One of the most influential political scientists of the last 50 years’ — Samuel P. Huntington - a longtime Harvard University professor, an influential political scientist, and mentor to a generation of scholars in widely divergent fields - died Dec. 24 on Martha's Vineyard.
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Charles Krauthammer / Weekly Standard:
The Net-Zero Gas Tax — A once-in-a-generation chance. — Americans have a deep and understandable aversion to gasoline taxes. In a culture more single-mindedly devoted to individual freedom than any other, tampering with access to the open road is met with visceral opposition.
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New York Times:
By Saying Yes, WaMu Built Empire on Shaky Loans — “We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs and Lowe's-Home Depot did to their industry. And I think if we've done our job, five years from now you're not going to call us a bank.”
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Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
Bailout of Long-Term Capital: A Bad Precedent? — THE financial crisis is a result of many bad decisions, but one of them hasn't received enough attention: the 1998 bailout of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund. If regulators had been less concerned with protecting the fund's creditors …
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