Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Turkish diplomacy could be an new element in the Middle East crisis.
8th January, 2009
Another humiliation for the so called “moderate” Arabs in the Security Council, with Al-Arabiya reported in advance that the Security Council will never pass the Arab initiative.
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Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
7th January, 2009
PARIS (AFP)–France Wednesday sharply criticized Israel’s shelling of a U.N.- run school in the Gaza Strip, arguing that the bloodshed underlined the need for a rapid ceasefire.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
Rami G. Khouri
6th January, 2009
BEIRUT — Many analogies are being made between the ongoing Israeli attack against Hamas in Gaza and the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah in Lebanon. Here are the most important ones, in my view.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
True to form, Blair fails to call for a halt to the massacre, as with Lebanon in 2006.
LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – An immediate ceasefire in Gaza is possible if arms supplies through tunnels used by Hamas militants are halted, Middle East envoy Tony Blair said on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
5th January. 2009
More than 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested today outside the Israeli Consulate and the Federal Building in San Francisco, venting anger over Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
Telegraph
5th January, 2009
Troops poured into the area as the battle against the Islamic movement intensified with gunbattles at close quarters.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
5th January, 2009
Hamas says it has targeted the Hatzor Air Base, near the Israeli town of Ashdod, as Israel rebuffs calls for cease-fire in Gaza.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
A setback for Obama’s plans
By Jim Lobe
Asia Times
6th January, 2009
WASHINGTON – Israel’s massive week-long aerial assault on Gaza and subsequent ground invasion are likely to complicate president-elect Barack Obama’s hopes of aggressively pursuing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and risk inflicting greater damage to Washington’s standing in the Arab world, according to most analysts in Washington.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
But electoral benefits will only come with military success and that seems most unlikely. What has undoubtedly been achieved by this invasion is to compromise Obama, to lock him in to the neo-con agenda of endless conflict in the Middle East at a moment when he showed clear signs, under his mentors Brzezinski and Soros, of wanting diplomacy in the Middle East with a view to refocusing US aggression against Russia and China. His agenda is in ruins and the US remains hitched to an Israel veering out of control.
Mike Whitney
31st December, 2008
Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He’s made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel’s “Man of Peace” could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That’s “continuity they can believe in”.
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Posted by smeddum on December 31, 2008
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Posted by smeddum on December 29, 2008
| War on Gaza may cripple Israel economy Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:41:09 GMT |
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Economists have warned that the Israeli economy would be threatened if the invasion of the Gaza Strip is prolonged or the scope widened. Israeli began the launch of massive air strikes on Gaza on Saturday. Over 310 Gazans have so far been killed and nearly 1550 people have been wounded. The estimated daily cost of the military operations is expected to stand at tens of millions of shekels (dollars). Read the rest of this entry » |
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