Gaza War

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This is a topic, with start date December 27, 2008 and end date January 21, 2009.

Its theme(s) are Middle East, War.

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• Israel was right to attack Gaza (100 items)

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Israel was right to attack Gaza

For

The Battle of Gaza by Clifford May (National Review, January 22, 2009) (view)

Israel's Mistake by Ralph Peters (New York Post, January 22, 2009) (view)

The Lies of Gaza by Ralph Peters (New York Post, January 18, 2009) (view)

Hamas' dead baby strategy by Alan Dershowitz (The Washington Times, January 16, 2009) (view)

Eliminate Hamas by Roger Chapin (The Washington Times, January 13, 2009) (view)

The No-State Solution by Bret Stephens (The Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2009) (view)

Facing Reality by David Gelernter (The Weekly Standard, January 12, 2009) (view)

The Demons of Gaza by Ralph Peters (New York Post, January 11, 2009) (view)

Israel's just goal: reasonable cease-fire by Chicago Sun-Times editorial board (Chicago Sun-Times, January 11, 2009) (view)

No, we are not all Hamas now by Dominic Lawson (The Sunday Times (UK), January 11, 2009) (view)

Hamas' war crimes by Alan Dershowitz (Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2009) (view)

Yes, Israel Can Win in Gaza by Edward Luttwak (The Washington Post, January 9, 2009) (view)

Endgame in Gaza by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, January 9, 2009) (view)

No way forward while the Hamas hydra lives by Amir Taheri (The Times, January 9, 2009) (view)

A Passing Victory by Benny Avni (New York Post, January 8, 2009) (view)

The Jews Face a Double Standard by Marvin Hier (The Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2009) (view)

Israel's inalienable right by Jonathan Peled (USA Today, January 7, 2009) (view)

Israel acts because the world won't defend it by Daniel Finkelstein (The Times, January 7, 2009) (view)

Militant Islam Threatens Us All by Benjamin Netanyahu (The Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2009) (view)

Gazans need to choose peace over extremism by Shai Hermesh (The Guardian, January 6, 2009) (view)

From her lips to God's ear: The fury of a bereaved Palestinian mother captures evil of Hamas in Gaza by New York Daily News editorial board (New York Daily News, January 6, 2009) (view)

A Conflict Hamas Caused by Richard Cohen (The Washington Post, January 6, 2009) (view)

It's a War Process by Anne Applebaum (The Washington Post, January 6, 2009) (view)

An Endgame for Israel by Bret Stephens (The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2009) (view)

How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem by Natan Sharansky (The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2009) (view)

Stopping the rockets a necessity by Greg Sheridan (The Australian, January 6, 2009) (view)

‘Breaking the Will of the Palestinians’ by Andrew C. McCarthy (National Review, January 6, 2009) (view)

What Good Can Come of This? by Mona Charen (National Review, January 6, 2009) (view)

Israel's Obligation by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, January 5, 2009) (view)

Only the end of Hamas can bring peace to Gaza by David Warren (Ottawa Citizen, January 5, 2009) (view)

Don't Stop Until Hamas is Destroyed by Ralph Peters (New York Post, January 5, 2009) (view)

Hamas' zero-sum game by Fania Oz-Salzberger (San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2009) (view)

Israel's Gaza Surge by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2009) (view)

Why Israel Fights by William Kristol (The New York Times, January 4, 2009) (view)

Hamas rockets block the birth of a Palestinian state by Malcolm Rifkind (The Daily Telegraph, January 3, 2009) (view)

Defining Victory for Israel by Michael Gerson (The Washington Post, January 2, 2009) (view)

Moral Clarity in Gaza by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, January 2, 2009) (view)

Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate' by Alan Dershowitz (The Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2009) (view)

The assault on Gaza offers the best hope of peace by Con Coughlin (The Daily Telegraph, January 2, 2009) (view)

The Gaza rules by Victor Davis Hanson (San Francisco Chronicle, January 2, 2009) (view)

Has Israel learned its lesson? by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe, January 1, 2009) (view)

Hard Truths About the Conflict by Robert J. Lieber (The Washington Post, January 1, 2009) (view)

Rockets from Gaza have exhausted Israel's patience by The Seattle Times editorial board (The Seattle Times, December 31, 2008) (view)

Hamas is the obstacle to Middle East peace by Ron Prosor (The Daily Telegraph, December 31, 2008) (view)

Hamas is a Taliban State by Martin Peretz (The New Republic, December 31, 2008) (view)

Hamas Fantasy Rules by National Review editorial board (National Review, December 30, 2008) (view)

It's time once more to blame the Jews by Wesley Pruden (The Washington Times, December 30, 2008) (view)

The suffering that Hamas causes by Jeff Robbins (The Boston Globe, December 30, 2008) (view)

Hamas Knows One Big Thing by Bret Stephens (The Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2008) (view)

Damned if they do by Ralph Peters (New York Post, December 29, 2008) (view)

Israel's Gaza Defense by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2008) (view)

Palestinians Need Israel to Win by Michael Oren, Yossi Klein Halevi (The Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2008) (view)

War Over Gaza by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, December 29, 2008) (view)

Israel must fight Hamas to open a path to peace by Akiva Tor (San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2008) (view)

Against

Israel's friends cannot justify this slaughter by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (The Independent, January 19, 2009) (view)

Amid the horror and doom of Gaza, the IRA precedent offers hope by Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian, January 14, 2009) (view)

U.S. role in Mideast turmoil: Neglect by Joel Brinkley (San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2009) (view)

Israel Is Committing War Crimes by George Bisharat (The Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2009) (view)

What Makes Ahmadinejad Smile? by Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek, January 10, 2009) (view)

Israel in Gaza: Three Wrong Arguments by Howard Schweber (The Huffington Post, January 10, 2009) (view)

Hard Lesson for Israel by Jackson Diehl (The Washington Post, January 9, 2009) (view)

An Unnecessary War by Jimmy Carter (The Washington Post, January 8, 2009) (view)

Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath by Seumas Milne (The Guardian, January 8, 2009) (view)

The peace has been lost to Israel’s military victories by Philip Stephens (Financial Times, January 8, 2009) (view)

Neoconservatism dies in Gaza by Juan Cole (Salon.com, January 8, 2009) (view)

Gaza after a Hamas rout will be an even greater threat to Israel by Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian, January 7, 2009) (view)

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe by Avi Shlaim (The Guardian, January 7, 2009) (view)

There wouldn't have been Gaza rockets without the blockade by Deborah Orr (The Independent, January 7, 2009) (view)

We must stop arming Israel by Nick Clegg (The Guardian, January 7, 2009) (view)

Diplomacy must include Hamas by Financial Times editorial board (Financial Times, January 7, 2009) (view)

What You Don’t Know About Gaza by Rashid Khalidi (The New York Times, January 7, 2009) (view)

Why do so few speak up for Gaza? by Robert Scheer (San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2009) (view)

Hamas speaks by Mousa Abu Marzook (Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2009) (view)

The Israel rules by Gary Kamiya (Salon.com, January 6, 2009) (view)

It breaks my heart to see Israel's stupidity by Michael Lerner (The Times, January 5, 2009) (view)

Israel’s self-defeating Gaza offensive by Gideon Rachman (Financial Times, January 5, 2009) (view)

Has Israel's response exceeded its right to defend itself? by George Bisharat (San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2009) (view)

Israel must withdraw from Gaza by The Observer editorial board (The Observer, January 4, 2009) (view)

A dangerous gamble in Gaza by Financial Times editorial board (Financial Times, January 4, 2009) (view)

Israel has plenty of tactics for war, but none for peace by Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian, January 3, 2009) (view)

Israel can't bomb its way to peace by Rosa Brooks (Los Angeles Times, January 1, 2009) (view)

The illusion of victory by Daniel Barenboim (The Guardian, January 1, 2009) (view)

We must adjust our distorted image of Hamas by William Sieghart (The Times, December 31, 2008) (view)

Israel's onslaught on Gaza is a crime that cannot succeed by Seumas Milne (The Guardian, December 30, 2008) (view)

Has Israel Revived Hamas? by Daoud Kuttab (The Washington Post, December 30, 2008) (view)

Israel, Stop! Just. Stop. by Lorelei Kelly (The Huffington Post, December 30, 2008) (view)

The Gaza calamities by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, December 30, 2008) (view)

We have no words left by Ali Abunimah (The Guardian, December 29, 2008) (view)

Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns by Robert Dreyfuss (The Nation, December 29, 2008) (view)

Olmert's Final Failure by Jackson Diehl (The Washington Post, December 29, 2008) (view)

The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling by Johann Hari (The Independent, December 29, 2008) (view)

Mixed

Shift the blame to Hamas by Trudy Rubin (The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2009) (view)

Silence the guns in Gaza by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2009) (view)

Israel’s tactics in Gaza invite Palestinian backlash by USA Today editorial board (USA Today, January 7, 2009) (view)

Broker a Gaza cease-fire now by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2009) (view)

Incursion Into Gaza by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, January 5, 2009) (view)

Escalation in Gaza by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, January 4, 2009) (view)

Pressure for cease-fire must intensify by San Francisco Chronicle editorial board (San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 2009) (view)

Divided on Gaza by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, December 30, 2008) (view)

Gaza is more than a simplistic morality play by Mick Hume (The Times, December 29, 2008) (view)

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All items that address this topic (100 total)

Title	Author	Source	Date
Damned if they do	Ralph Peters	New York Post	December 29, 2008
We have no words left	Ali Abunimah	The Guardian	December 29, 2008
Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns	Robert Dreyfuss	The Nation	December 29, 2008
Israel's Gaza Defense	The Wall Street Journal editorial board	The Wall Street Journal	December 29, 2008
Palestinians Need Israel to Win	Michael Oren • Yossi Klein Halevi	The Wall Street Journal	December 29, 2008
Olmert's Final Failure	Jackson Diehl	The Washington Post	December 29, 2008
Gaza is more than a simplistic morality play	Mick Hume	The Times	December 29, 2008
War Over Gaza	The New York Times editorial board	The New York Times	December 29, 2008
The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling	Johann Hari	The Independent	December 29, 2008
Israel must fight Hamas to open a path to peace	Akiva Tor	San Francisco Chronicle	December 29, 2008
Hamas Fantasy Rules	National Review editorial board	National Review	December 30, 2008
It's time once more to blame the Jews	Wesley Pruden	The Washington Times	December 30, 2008
Israel's onslaught on Gaza is a crime that cannot succeed	Seumas Milne	The Guardian	December 30, 2008
The suffering that Hamas causes	Jeff Robbins	The Boston Globe	December 30, 2008
Has Israel Revived Hamas?	Daoud Kuttab	The Washington Post	December 30, 2008
Hamas Knows One Big Thing	Bret Stephens	The Wall Street Journal	December 30, 2008
Israel, Stop! Just. Stop.	Lorelei Kelly	The Huffington Post	December 30, 2008
The Gaza calamities	The Boston Globe editorial board	The Boston Globe	December 30, 2008
Divided on Gaza	The Washington Post editorial board	The Washington Post	December 30, 2008
Rockets from Gaza have exhausted Israel's patience	The Seattle Times editorial board	The Seattle Times	December 31, 2008
Hamas is the obstacle to Middle East peace	Ron Prosor	The Daily Telegraph	December 31, 2008
Hamas is a Taliban State	Martin Peretz	The New Republic	December 31, 2008
We must adjust our distorted image of Hamas	William Sieghart	The Times	December 31, 2008
Israel can't bomb its way to peace	Rosa Brooks	Los Angeles Times	January 1, 2009
Has Israel learned its lesson?	Jeff Jacoby	The Boston Globe	January 1, 2009
Hard Truths About the Conflict	Robert J. Lieber	The Washington Post	January 1, 2009
The illusion of victory	Daniel Barenboim	The Guardian	January 1, 2009
Defining Victory for Israel	Michael Gerson	The Washington Post	January 2, 2009
Moral Clarity in Gaza	Charles Krauthammer	The Washington Post	January 2, 2009
Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate'	Alan Dershowitz	The Wall Street Journal	January 2, 2009
The assault on Gaza offers the best hope of peace	Con Coughlin	The Daily Telegraph	January 2, 2009
The Gaza rules	Victor Davis Hanson	San Francisco Chronicle	January 2, 2009
Hamas rockets block the birth of a Palestinian state	Malcolm Rifkind	The Daily Telegraph	January 3, 2009
Israel has plenty of tactics for war, but none for peace	Jonathan Freedland	The Guardian	January 3, 2009
Escalation in Gaza	The Washington Post editorial board	The Washington Post	January 4, 2009
Israel must withdraw from Gaza	The Observer editorial board	The Observer	January 4, 2009
A dangerous gamble in Gaza	Financial Times editorial board	Financial Times	January 4, 2009
Israel's Gaza Surge	The Wall Street Journal editorial board	The Wall Street Journal	January 4, 2009
Why Israel Fights	William Kristol	The New York Times	January 4, 2009
Pressure for cease-fire must intensify	San Francisco Chronicle editorial board	San Francisco Chronicle	January 4, 2009
Israel's Obligation	New York Post editorial board	New York Post	January 5, 2009
Only the end of Hamas can bring peace to Gaza	David Warren	Ottawa Citizen	January 5, 2009
It breaks my heart to see Israel's stupidity	Michael Lerner	The Times	January 5, 2009
Don't Stop Until Hamas is Destroyed	Ralph Peters	New York Post	January 5, 2009
Israel’s self-defeating Gaza offensive	Gideon Rachman	Financial Times	January 5, 2009
Incursion Into Gaza	The New York Times editorial board	The New York Times	January 5, 2009
Has Israel's response exceeded its right to defend itself?	George Bisharat	San Francisco Chronicle	January 5, 2009
Hamas' zero-sum game	Fania Oz-Salzberger	San Francisco Chronicle	January 5, 2009
Gazans need to choose peace over extremism	Shai Hermesh	The Guardian	January 6, 2009
From her lips to God's ear: The fury of a bereaved Palestinian mother captures evil of Hamas in Gaza	New York Daily News editorial board	New York Daily News	January 6, 2009
A Conflict Hamas Caused	Richard Cohen	The Washington Post	January 6, 2009
It's a War Process	Anne Applebaum	The Washington Post	January 6, 2009
An Endgame for Israel	Bret Stephens	The Wall Street Journal	January 6, 2009
How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem	Natan Sharansky	The Wall Street Journal	January 6, 2009
Stopping the rockets a necessity	Greg Sheridan	The Australian	January 6, 2009
Broker a Gaza cease-fire now	Los Angeles Times editorial board	Los Angeles Times	January 6, 2009
Hamas speaks	Mousa Abu Marzook	Los Angeles Times	January 6, 2009
‘Breaking the Will of the Palestinians’	Andrew C. McCarthy	National Review	January 6, 2009
What Good Can Come of This?	Mona Charen	National Review	January 6, 2009
The Israel rules	Gary Kamiya	Salon.com	January 6, 2009
Israel’s tactics in Gaza invite Palestinian backlash	USA Today editorial board	USA Today	January 7, 2009
Israel's inalienable right	Jonathan Peled	USA Today	January 7, 2009
Israel acts because the world won't defend it	Daniel Finkelstein	The Times	January 7, 2009
Gaza after a Hamas rout will be an even greater threat to Israel	Jonathan Freedland	The Guardian	January 7, 2009
Militant Islam Threatens Us All	Benjamin Netanyahu	The Wall Street Journal	January 7, 2009
How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe	Avi Shlaim	The Guardian	January 7, 2009
There wouldn't have been Gaza rockets without the blockade	Deborah Orr	The Independent	January 7, 2009
We must stop arming Israel	Nick Clegg	The Guardian	January 7, 2009
Diplomacy must include Hamas	Financial Times editorial board	Financial Times	January 7, 2009
What You Don’t Know About Gaza	Rashid Khalidi	The New York Times	January 7, 2009
Why do so few speak up for Gaza?	Robert Scheer	San Francisco Chronicle	January 7, 2009
A Passing Victory	Benny Avni	New York Post	January 8, 2009
An Unnecessary War	Jimmy Carter	The Washington Post	January 8, 2009
The Jews Face a Double Standard	Marvin Hier	The Wall Street Journal	January 8, 2009
Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath	Seumas Milne	The Guardian	January 8, 2009
The peace has been lost to Israel’s military victories	Philip Stephens	Financial Times	January 8, 2009
Neoconservatism dies in Gaza	Juan Cole	Salon.com	January 8, 2009
Yes, Israel Can Win in Gaza	Edward Luttwak	The Washington Post	January 9, 2009
Endgame in Gaza	Charles Krauthammer	The Washington Post	January 9, 2009
Hard Lesson for Israel	Jackson Diehl	The Washington Post	January 9, 2009
No way forward while the Hamas hydra lives	Amir Taheri	The Times	January 9, 2009
Israel Is Committing War Crimes	George Bisharat	The Wall Street Journal	January 10, 2009
Hamas' war crimes	Alan Dershowitz	Los Angeles Times	January 10, 2009
What Makes Ahmadinejad Smile?	Fareed Zakaria	Newsweek	January 10, 2009
Israel in Gaza: Three Wrong Arguments	Howard Schweber	The Huffington Post	January 10, 2009
The Demons of Gaza	Ralph Peters	New York Post	January 11, 2009
Israel's just goal: reasonable cease-fire	Chicago Sun-Times editorial board	Chicago Sun-Times	January 11, 2009
Silence the guns in Gaza	Los Angeles Times editorial board	Los Angeles Times	January 11, 2009
No, we are not all Hamas now	Dominic Lawson	The Sunday Times (UK)	January 11, 2009
U.S. role in Mideast turmoil: Neglect	Joel Brinkley	San Francisco Chronicle	January 11, 2009
Facing Reality	David Gelernter	The Weekly Standard	January 12, 2009
Eliminate Hamas	Roger Chapin	The Washington Times	January 13, 2009
The No-State Solution	Bret Stephens	The Wall Street Journal	January 13, 2009
Amid the horror and doom of Gaza, the IRA precedent offers hope	Jonathan Freedland	The Guardian	January 14, 2009
Shift the blame to Hamas	Trudy Rubin	The Philadelphia Inquirer	January 14, 2009
Hamas' dead baby strategy	Alan Dershowitz	The Washington Times	January 16, 2009
The Lies of Gaza	Ralph Peters	New York Post	January 18, 2009
Israel's friends cannot justify this slaughter	Yasmin Alibhai-Brown	The Independent	January 19, 2009
The Battle of Gaza	Clifford May	National Review	January 22, 2009
Israel's Mistake	Ralph Peters	New York Post	January 22, 2009

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