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Israel vs. Hamas: How Much Violence is Enough
4 comments on Israel vs. Hamas: How Much Violence is EnoughA law professor considers the notion of proportionality in Forbes: The claim is that it is not permissible for the Israelis to kill many individuals, including civilians, to stop sporadic deaths from rocket fire. Sorry.…
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Hamas Deploys Children in PR Offensive
A debate is raging over civilian deaths, some of them children, at a Palestinian school. GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli mortar shells exploded Tuesday near a U.N. school in Gaza that was sheltering hundreds…
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Zbigniew Zblows Smoke at Joe Scarborough
I got a little carried away commenting on another blog, so to justify the research time I’m repurposing the comment here. 🙂 At Politics After 50 (having been born in 1958 I think this is…
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Moral Clarity on Hamas and Gaza, from Krauthammer
Time and again, after reading a Charles Krauthammer column, I find myself thinking, “why couldn’t I have written that?” It’s a combination of my admiration for the man’s craft and my nearly complete agreement, more…
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Slain Hamas Leader Was Raising Next Generation of Terrorists
My satisfaction at the news yesterday that Israel had taken out a top Hamas leader was tempered somewhat by the fact that his family died with him — today’s stories put the toll at four…
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Precision Strike Kills a Top Hamas Goon in Gaza
“A senior Hamas leader, Nizar Rayan, was killed today with his four wives and two of his children in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics said,” according to an account in The National, an…
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Good to See: Arab Leaders Criticize Hamas
Via Taranto (third item) comes the welcome word that some Arab leaders understand the cause of the Gaza conflict better than the Episcopal Presiding Bishop does: Nimr Hammad, an adviser to [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud]…