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11:35 PM ET, July 23, 2006

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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Sleeper Hizbullah cells activated  —  Hizbullah "sleeper" terror cells set up outside Lebanon with Iranian assistance have been put on standby The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday, and are likely planning attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets throughout the world.
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Benjamin Netanyahu / Opinion Journal:
No Cease-Fire  —  Remove Hamas's missiles—or destroy them.
Discussion: Haaretz, Israel Matzav and AtlanticBlog
Shmuel Rosner / Haaretz:   U.S. and Lebanon / From complaining to talking
Thomas L. Friedman / deseretnews.com:
U.S. needs help from World of Order
Discussion: QandO and BrothersJudd Blog
Ynetnews:
IDF's next target: 'Hizbullah villages'
Discussion: WILLisms.com and Elder of Ziyon
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Saudis ask Bush to intervene in Mideast  —  WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia asked President Bush on Sunday to intervene in Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to stop the mounting deaths.  —  "We requested a cease-fire to allow for a cessation of hostilities," …
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Deacon / Power Line:
PUTTING ISRAEL ON THE CLOCK  —  The current fighting in the Middle East has put the American left, and other accommodationists, in a difficult position.  Ordinary Americans of all political persuasions understand that a terrorist organization that has killed Americans is attacking one of our allies.
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Says Invasion and Aftermath Are the 'Work of Butchers'  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 22 — The speaker of the Iraqi Parliament criticized the American government's involvement in Iraq on Saturday, likening the invasion and its consequences to "the work of butchers" …
Discussion: Liberty Street
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Judd / Think Progress:
Bolten Says Iraqi Speaker, Who Called U.S. 'Butchers,' Appreciates 'the Sacrifice Americans Have Made'  —  Yesterday, the speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, said "We know there was a corrupt regime in Saddam, but a regime should be removed by surgery, not by butchering.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Garance Burke / Associated Press:
ACLU Sues for Anti-Gay Group That Pickets at Troops' Burials  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals nationwide filed suit in federal court, saying a Missouri law banning such picketing infringes on religious freedom and free speech.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   ACLU To Fred Phelps' Rescue
Azadeh Moaveni / Time:
Why Iran Isn't Cheering  —  Hizballah may be Tehran's client, but the conflict hasn't been welcomed by many Iranians  —  Parvin Heydari, an Iranian mother of two, was flipping back and forth between the nightly news and Oprah when a bulletin on an Iranian state channel caught her attention.
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Jerusalem Post:
Iran: Israel doomed to 'destruction'
Discussion: Mere Rhetoric
Haaretz:
Syrian minister: We will join conflict if IDF approaches Syria
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Yourish.com
John McLaughlin / Washington Post:
We Have To Talk To Bad Guys  —  Although the fighting in the Middle East is still raging, it is not too soon to start drawing lessons from these tragic events.  Even if this situation begins to cool, there are so many other flashpoints in the Middle East and so many other potential hot spots …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Taylor Marsh
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Study: Ex-Rep. Made Use of 'Black' Budgets  —  WASHINGTON - An independent investigation has found that imprisoned former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham took advantage of secrecy and badgered congressional aides to help slip items into classified bills that would benefit him and his associates.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Mark Schmitt / The Decembrist:
Lieberdem Speaks  —  I probably shouldn't be so obsessed with the Lieberman-Lamont race, but I can't help it.  —  This seems to be the week when the Republican right (Kondracke, Chris Caldwell) has decided to make Joe Lieberman's cause their own.  Which is fine, but their opinion …
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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Arabs press Syria to help end violence  —  SIDON, Lebanon - Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday.  Israel faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and bombarded targets in southern Lebanon, hitting a convoy of refugees.
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors  —  The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, specifically those who are subject to gift and estate taxes when they transfer parts …
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.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and Unfogged
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon — The Age of Fallibility, Part II  —  (Please welcome George Soros, who is joining us in the comments to discuss his book The Age of Fallibility: Consequence of the War on Terror.  Week one of the discussion can be found here.)  —  Since FDL has been open for business …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Needlenose
Solomon / Solomonia:
Mayhem at the Defend Hizballah Rally!  —  This past Friday, the Muslim American Society held their "Justice for Palestine and Lebanon Protest" at Boston's City Hall Plaza referred to at the end of this post.  The Boston Globe has its report here: Muslims, Christians protest bombardment of Lebanon
Dan / Riehl World View:
Still More Greenwald Sock Puppetry Exposed  —  Sock puppetry on the Internet is one thing - it's bad enough.  Now it seems a hidden studio camera has caught blogger and best selling author Glenn Greenwald using a sock puppet in a recent appearance with Al Franken on Air America.  This is going too far!
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Department of the Bleedin' Obvious  —  Stop the presses.  Tom Ricks, intrepid war correspondent for the Washington Post, has an urgent news flash.  He reports that in the months following the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the U.S. Army forgot the lessons of Vietnam!
Richard Wolffe / Newsweek:
Backstage at the Crisis  —  As the world's leaders gathered, the Middle East burst into flames.  How President Bush handled the biggest foreign challenge of his second term.  A NEWSWEEK exclusive.  —  July 31, 2006 issue - The forward suite aboard Air Force One is a hushed and dimly lit space …
Discussion: The Mahablog and Brendan Nyhan
 
 
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Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Losing an Army  —  Earlier this week I linked to a commentary …
Discussion: Firedoglake and NO QUARTER
Joe Noory / ¡No Pasarán!:
Impartial - to the well-being of man.
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Democracy in Action  —  Now that Professor Alan Dershowitz …
Discussion: New York Times and Ezra Klein
Turcopolier / Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006:
Now, I "get it."  —  Dan Halutz is the first IDF chief of staff who is not a soldier.
Discussion: The Agonist
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Josh Bolten Squirms During Stem Cell Questions
Discussion: Firedoglake
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