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...Meanwhile, Israeli politicians and pundits are constantly on the air painting Hamas as an implacable, genocidal foe. Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Fox News, "For us to be asked to have a cease-fire with Hamas is like asking you to have a cease-fire with al-Qaeda" - despite the fact that Israel and Hamas had, in fact, agreed via Egypt to a six-month cease-fire just last June. And Israeli military spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovitch is constantly reassuring TV audiences worldwide that Israeli troops are going the extra mile to avoid collateral damage in Gaza. However, some Israeli...
...look at North Korea and our interaction with them over the last 20 years, they've had an amazing strategy and no power; we've had an amazing amount of power, very little strategy, and the result over 20 years has been about a tie." - On how a weak foe can frustrate a superpower (before a House Armed Services subcommittee, July...
...Specter of Iran One indirect objective of the Gaza offensive might have been to warn off Israel's other nonstate militant foe: Hizballah. While the Lebanese group has been cheering on Hamas from the sidelines, it has refrained from entering the fray. Hizballah may have a stockpile of new rockets, but Israeli generals hope Gaza will serve as a cautionary example of what would happen if it used them. This is a reassuring thought, but it remains to be tested. After all, Hizballah's rockets have only one purpose, and that is to be used against Israel...
...arrival of Quinnipiac at Bright Hockey Center on Saturday provided the Harvard women’s hockey team with a chance for redemption after the previous night’s defeat. Coming off a tight 1-0 loss to divisional foe Princeton on Friday, the Crimson (6-6-3, 6-3-2 ECAC) took advantage of a shoddy Quinnipiac defense while simultaneously keeping scoring opportunities for the Bobcats (3-18-2, 2-7-2 to a minimum in a 3-1 victory. Saturday’s game also provided senior goaltender Brittany Martin with another chance to reestablish her previously...
...there can be little rest for the weary, as the Harvard men’s basketball team will soon find out. Three days after a heart-breaking 81-76 double-overtime loss at home to Northeastern, the Crimson return to action tomorrow as it battles another tough non-conference foe in George Washington tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the nation’s capital. Down by seven points in the final minutes of regulation to the Huskies, Harvard stunned the crowd by rallying to force overtime. Several clutch baskets by Northeastern denied the Crimson a thrilling win, but its spirited...