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...close quarters with the militants - as they did on Saturday - to kill more of their fighters and disrupt their chain of command. That course of action meant accepting the inevitability of Israeli casualties. Indeed, the Israelis are aware that Hamas has been hoping for a ground operation, in the belief that it offers the militants a chance to fight on a more level playing field than when Israel attacks from the skies, and also because the inevitable Israeli withdrawal will almost certainly be proclaimed as a victory by the Islamists no matter how badly they were bloodied by the invasion...
Bush, Laura •disagreement of with widely held belief that husband of was a disastrous president...
Tell me about the club's founder, Bernarr McFadden, and his belief that this activity improved stamina, immunity and even virility...
...years of very aggressive oppression and enslavement, all of a sudden the outcry was "Let my people go," and that continues to resonate against slavery everywhere to this day. Then we come to the Sinai covenant, which is a key moment not just for Jewish theology, but for Christian belief as well: The Ten Commandments is the first human-to-human constitution, setting out the relations among humans on the basis of laws. And then you come to the Prophets, and its amazing that they're calling so clearly for a just society. And then, in the Middle Ages...
...some fluke or perennial candidate."- on his belief that he would become Illinois' first black governor. He subsequently ran for office three more times. Chicago Tribune...