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Haaretz profiles Amir Peretz, Israel's relatively dovish defence minister who backs the very hard line being taken in Lebanon. An excerpt: In every field of dry brush a match is hiding, says Amir Peretz, and one day it will be lit and ignite a big fire. The match happened to be lit on my shift, [...]
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From the NYT: The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday. The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, [...]
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This BBC story looks at the skyrocketing stock of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah amongst the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. An excerpt: The posters on the walls of the Palestine Liberation Organisation shop tell the story in life-size techni-colour. Alongside the portrait of the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, these days are two pictures [...]
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Daniel Pearl, deputy editor of Newsnight, in a BBC editor’s blog posting: … Also, we know what you are saying about us (really, we do). If you write anything about Newsnight, or about me, on a blog, I’ll probably find it via Technorati. So for example, I know that there’s a whole debate going on [...]