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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Hamas moves on Fatah ‘collaborators’ — The Hamas government has placed dozens of Fatah members under house arrest out of fear that they might exploit the current IDF operation to regain control of the Gaza Strip. — The move came amid reports that the Fatah leadership in the West Bank …
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Jerusalem Post:
Two senior Hamas terrorists killed in IAF strike — Senior Hamas terrorist Hussam Hamdan, who was in charge of Grad-type rocket launches into Beersheba and Ofakim, was killed in an IAF strike on Khan Yunis on Sunday afternoon. — Another senior Hamas terrorist, Muhammad Hilo, was also killed in the same airstrike.
Jack / Random Thoughts:Gaza Update #7.5 — Welcome to another edition of updates on the War in Gaza.
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:Is the Real Target Hamas Rule?
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Haaretz:Barak: Gaza invasion won't be short, and it won't be easy
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken up 225 with recount complete; focus turns to court — The Supreme Court has yet to rule on Coleman's request to consider more wrongly rejected ballots. — DFLer Al Franken won an impressive share Saturday of what may be the last ballots tallied in the U.S. Senate recount …
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Aaron David Miller / Newsweek:
He should get tough with Israel. — In Search of the High Ground: In July, Obama got a bird's-eye view of the Holy Land with Livni (right) and Defense Minister Ehud Barak — From the magazine issue dated Jan 12, 2009 — Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so.
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Agence France Presse:
Obama keeps silent on explosive Gaza conflict … As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama's inauguration, the US president-elect has kept silent on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its latest deadly turn in the Gaza Strip. — Obama transition officials have ventured little …
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IDF Spokesperson:
Rocket Statistics, 3 Jan 2009 — Rocket Statistics — Today, over 950,000 Israelis live within range of rocket and mortar attacks. — There have been approximately 7,200 rockets (Grads, Qassams) and mortars launched at Israel since 2005. — During 2008, there have been 1755 mortars shells …
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John Harlow / Times of London:
Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble — RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart. — Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers …
Zombie / zomblog:
“I'm a little spooked”: Palestinian protests bring Gaza fighting to San Francisco — For nearly every day of the last week, San Francisco has seen street protests about the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of Palestinians, as well as left-wing activists organized by ANSWER …
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Me-ow! Ann Coulter hits Michelle Obama over styles — Right-wing flame thrower Ann Coulter blasts incoming First Lady Michelle Obama as a freakish Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis imitator in a book to be published next week. — In her latest screed, titled “Guilty: Liberal 'Victims …
Yossi Klein Halevi / Washington Post:
As My Son Goes to War, I Am Fully Israeli At Last — “I just heard on the news that Gavriel's base has been shelled,” my wife, Sarah, said to me last Tuesday, referring to our 19-year-old son, a member of an Israeli army tank unit waiting on the Gaza border for the order to enter.
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BBC:
BBC names 11th - and youngest - Doctor Who — Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role. — At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
McAuliffe Declares Bid for Governor — Former Democratic National Committee chairman and McLean businessman Terry McAuliffe said yesterday that he has decided to run for Virginia governor. — In a three-minute video e-mailed to supporters yesterday afternoon, McAuliffe, 51 …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Creepy Times — There is something especially nauseating about the latest Middle East war — scenes of worldwide Islamic protests with photos of Jews as apes, protesters (in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida of all places!) screaming about nuking Israel and putting Jews in ovens …
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