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...couple of days throughout the holiday, we saw the sign on the menorah was ripped. We said, ‘Let’s hope it was the weather.’” But he said the demolition of the menorah proved that the damage was indeed intentional...
...weather matters. Israel's military offensive against Gaza was timed to coincide with three days of clear skies. Cloudlessness certainly helps the dozens of Israeli drones circling above the densely packed streets of the Palestinian seaside territory, using video and infrared cameras to search for possible targets...
Israel's strike on Gaza had been expected for days, but it was still a surprise when it finally came. Taking advantage of good weather, which is forecast to last at least three days, Israeli planes bombed some 40 Palestinian police stations, posts and other targets early Saturday morning, killing more than 150 people, including a number of senior Hamas military leaders. The first strikes came in a coordinated three-minute blitz...
...goatee-bearded 30-year-old coolly describes his work for the Zetas, a feared paramilitary force responsible for thousands of brutal murders. And even when he details how his bosses kidnapped and chopped the head off a soldier, he appears relaxed and unemotional, as if he were discussing the weather. But despite the unsettling indifference of its tone, Cobo's confession - of which a video has been obtained by TIME - offers some extraordinary insights into how the cartels have grown into a formidable threat to the Mexican government, outwitting and outgunning the armed forces in great swathes of the country...
...Golf Links, a public course near the beachfront vacation home where he is staying. Peter K. Yamashita, general manager of the golf course, said Obama's childhood friend Bobby Titcomb called and told him the President-elect wanted to play a round. Yamashita was worried that the recent wet weather that brought 14 inches of rain to Oahu in one 12-hour period would make it an unattractive place to play. But Obama wanted to play the course where he learned to golf growing up on Oahu...