Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 29, 2014


How Long Will It Last? Gaza Conflict By The Numbers - Josh Levs, CNN

(CNN) -- For all the talk of a possible cease-fire, residents of Israel and Palestinians in Gaza are living under a daily barrage of attacks. More than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed, as have 53 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel.

"If the enemy has not had enough of our strikes, our fighters have a lot to surprise the enemy's leaders and its special forces," Hamas said Tuesday in an online posting.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his country Monday to prepare for "a protracted campaign."

"Our goal is clear," Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN on Tuesday. "Our goal is to free the people of Israel from the terror of these rocket attacks coming from Gaza and from these tunnel attacks coming from Gaza where people pop out of the ground with machine guns and explosives to kill and to murder, to kidnap people,"

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 29, 2014

Israel's Campaign to Send Gaza Back to the Stone Age -- Jesse Rosenfeld, The Daily Beast

How Hamas Wields Gaza’s Casualties as Propaganda -- Steven Stotsky, Time

Israel: Fighting an unwinnable war? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera

Hamas Knows It Is Losing -- Seth Mandel, Commentary

Israel Is Losing the Long Game -- George Friedman, Startfor

When Middle East Conflicts Become One -- David Brooks, New York Times

Ukraine crisis: How far will Obama go to get Russia to back down? -- Howard LaFranchi, CSM

Putin may have passed point of no-return over Ukraine -- Timothy Heritage, Reuters

Putin's Strategy Is Complicated by Rebel Setbacks in Ukraine, Sanctions -- WSJ

Kerry Says Not ‘a Shred’ of Evidence Russia Wants to Ease Ukraine Fighting -- Dan Kedmey, Time

Final days could be approaching for Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine -- Mark MacKinnon, The Globe and Mail

Gaddafi has gone but Libya is more dangerous than ever, thanks to the west -- Nabila Ramdani, The Guardian

Are the Philippines Worth Fighting For? -- William Pesek, Bloomberg

Why China’s investigation of Zhou Yongkang is such a big deal -- William Wan, Washington Post

Venezuela betrayed — missed chance to expose regime -- Roger F. Noriega, New York Post

Will the Islamic State Spread Its Tentacles to Pakistan? -- Arif Rafiq, The Diplomat

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