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...Israeli Arabic speakers have interrupted the fighters to say, "You're the ones spilling blood, not your leaders, who are safe in hiding." Israeli officials are so confident of crushing Hamas that on Sunday the military intelligence chief, Major General Amos Yadlin, gave his war briefing to the Cabinet in comical verse...
...against Hizballah in Lebanon, but soured when it became obvious that Israeli politicians and generals were bungling the war, and that soldiers' lives were being needlessly lost. That hasn't happened yet, but already a few retired generals are starting to complain that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet are dithering. Says former National Security Council Chief Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, "Either reach a cease-fire in two to three days, or start a big military operation that will take at least two weeks. We've been beating around the bush for a week, and we need to make...
Just a few weeks ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed content to coast along and see just how bad the financial crisis would get before taking action. As world leaders were piling up huge bailouts, Merkel promised only modest aid for the German economy, and members of her Cabinet even ridiculed other European leaders for engaging in a race to see who could spend the most. But as the new year gets under way, Merkel has clearly joined the race and may be moving ahead of the pack...
...Jerusalem, the Israeli Cabinet is readying for a massive ground assault on Gaza City's densely populated maze of alleys, where thousands of Hamas fighters await with booby traps and other nasty surprises - and hundreds of thousands of civilians cower. Israeli planes dropped leaflets on Wednesday calling for the evacuation of more than 20,000 Gazans from their homes near the Egyptian border crossing of Rafah, so that the Israelis can begin bombing to destroy a network of smugglers' tunnels along the border...
...full professor, succeeding Robert C. Clark in 2003.Kagan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Abner Mikva before serving as a domestic policy adviser under President Clinton.The announcement marks a continuation of Obama’s push to put in place his cabinet and key advisers as soon as possible. By contrast, President Bush’s first solicitor general, Theodore B. Olson, was nominated on Feb. 14, 2001 and did not take the oath of office until June of that year.Faust said that she will consider appointing an acting dean...