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1:25 PM ET, July 23, 2006

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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Israel Will Accept a Disarmed Hezbollah  —  Envoy Talks of Future As a 'Political Group'  —  The United States, Israel, the United Nations and the European Union have reluctantly concluded that despite punishing military attacks, Hezbollah is likely to survive as a political player in Lebanon …
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Matthew Kalman / San Francisco Chronicle:
Israel set war plan more than a year ago  —  Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began gaining military strength in Lebanon  —  (07-21) 04:00 PDT Jerusalem — Israel's military response by air, land and sea to what it considered a provocation last week by Hezbollah militants …
CNN:   Israeli military seizes Lebanese town
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
'Israel would accept NATO on border'
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Elise Labott / CNN:   Annan: Lebanon en route to 'humanitarian disaster'
Media Matters for America:   Fox News: "Are Saddam Hussein's WMDs Now in Hezbollah's Hands?"
Aljazeera:
Rice sees bombs as birth pangs
Discussion: rubber hose
Juan / Informed Comment:
War on Lebanon Planned for at least a Year  —  The Bush …
Lenin / LENIN'S TOMB:
Israel kills more in Lebanon: media blackout protests.
Discussion: Harry's Place
Time:
Lieberman's Last Stand  —  The Connecticut senator's almost saintly civility may be coming back to haunt him on Iraq  —  On a brain-foggingly hot Sunday afternoon in July, a wistful Senator Joseph Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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Irving Stolberg / Hartford Courant:
No More Joe  —  `Dead Wrong' On The War And Defense Of Bush, White House Excesses  —  Joe Lieberman and I have been friends and colleagues for 38 years.  We ran for and won seats in the Connecticut legislature as a team of reformers in 1970.  He was my state senator and I was his state representative.
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Conspiracy Theories 101  —  Andes, N.Y.  —  KEVIN BARRETT, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has now taken his place alongside Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado as a college teacher whose views on 9/11 have led politicians and ordinary citizens to demand that he be fired.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy.  —  Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: … [Hey!  Fact check, people!  Can't you tell the difference between the blogger and the commenters?  I've written a lot about the Barrett controversy, but I didn't write that.
Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Fatah: Hamas ready to accept deal on ceasefire, release of Shalit  —  Senior Fatah sources in Gaza said on Saturday that Hamas is ready to accept a deal that involves freeing abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and an end to IDF actions in the Gaza Strip.
Jerusalem Post:
Report: Hizbullah willing to talk  —  Hizbullah agreed to allow the Lebanese government to begin negotiations regarding kidnapped IDF soldiers, according to speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri on Sunday afternoon.  —  Earlier Sunday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh told …
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Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
US blunders roil the Mideast
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and PoliPundit.com
CBS News:
Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative  —  In Exclusive Interview, Buckley Criticizes President For Interventionist Policies  —  (CBS) President Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative."  And he continues to nurture his conservative base — even issuing his first veto this week against embryonic stem cell research.
Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran  —  Border guards seized a British lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to build a dirty bomb.
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
Darrel Rowland / dispatch.com:
Strickland far ahead, early poll indicates  —  Democrat strong across board; Brown maintains 8-point edge over DeWine in Senate race  —  Democrat Ted Strickland has surged to a surprising lead of 20 percentage points in the first Dispatch Poll on Ohio's Nov. 7 race for governor.
Discussion: MyDD and Daily Kos
Times of London:
God's army has plans to run the whole Middle East  —  Hezbollah, the group at the heart of the Lebanese conflict, is the spearhead of Iran's ambitions to be a superpower, says Iranian commentator Amir Taheri  —  'You are the sun of Islam, shining on the universe!
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and The Corner
Alan Finder / New York Times:
Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties  —  GEORGETOWN, Ky. — The request seemed simple enough to the Rev. Hershael W. York, then the president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention.  He asked Georgetown College, a small Baptist liberal arts institution here, to consider hiring …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Insurance Policy Comes Membership  —  Unbeknown to Some, Those Signing Up With Firm Are Joining Conservative Group  —  In 2001, Jennifer B. Chace heard an insurance broker's pitch for a new insurance company marketing tax-free medical savings accounts.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam  —  Early Missteps by U.S. Left Troops Unprepared for Guerrilla Warfare  —  The real war in Iraq — the one to determine the future of the country — began on Aug. 7, 2003, when a car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy, killing 11 and wounding more than 50.
Jerusalem Post:
Iran: Israel doomed to 'destruction'  —  TEHERAN  —  Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared Sunday that Israel had "pushed the button of its own destruction" by launching its military campaign against the Iranian-backed Hizbullah in Lebanon.  —  Ahmadinejad didn't elaborate …
Discussion: Haaretz
 
 
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Steve / The News Blog:
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BBC:
Minister condemns Israeli action
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Neocon Saturday  —  There's a lot to dislike about Chris Matthews …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
In Iran's Streets, Aid to Hezbollah Stirs Resentment
Agence France Presse:
Iran urges Muslim countries to stop Mideast conflict
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