ENDGAME APPROACHES AS 1,000 PLUS PALESTINIANS DEAD-13 ISRAELIS DEAD

ENDGAME APPROACHES AS 1,000 PLUS PALESTINIANS DEAD-13 ISRAELIS DEAD AS ISRAEL SEEMS TO APPROACH HIDDEN GOAL OF SHAPING DECISIVELY ANY FUTURE RESOLUTION ON ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CRISIS BY DESTROYING ONLY REMAINING OPPONENT HAMAS


YAHOO [US]

1. Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090115/ ap_on_re_ mi_ea/ml_ israel_palestini ans

HAARETZ [CENTRIST ISRAELI NETWORK]

2.IDF kills Hamas Interior Minister Said Siam in Gaza
airstrike
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1055899. html

3.UN Chief: Success of Gaza truce deal depends on
Israel's will
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1055830. html

4.ANALYSIS / UN Gaza truce resolution was serious
diplomatic malfunction

http://www.haaretz. co.il/hasen/ spages/1054275. html

5.PROFILE / Slain Hamas minister was key figure in '07
Gaza coup
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1055947. html

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A Hamas spokesman said Sayyam's death would not shake
the militant group's defiance.

"Some of our leaders will fall, some of our people
will fall, but the flag of resistance wont fall," said
Sami Abu Zuhri.

6.Boy, 7, seriously hurt as Gaza rockets slam into
Be'er Sheva

http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1055759. html

7.Israel using Holocaust guilt to continue Gaza op,
says British Jewish MP
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1055922. html

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Kaufman, a frequent critic of Israel who was raised as
an Orthodox Jew...
"My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to
her home town.... A German soldier shot her dead in
her bed, he said. My grandmother did not die to
provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering
Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza," the MP said.

8.Gaza offensive spurs rise in anti-Semitic incidents
across Europe

http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1053204. html

9.Tens of thousands attend pro-Israel rallies in
Europe, N.Y.

http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1054494. html

JERUSALEM POST [RIGHT WING ISRAELI NETWORK]

10.Livni sets out to US to sign deal on preventing
smuggling

http://www.jpost. com/servlet/ Satellite? cid=123195087019 8&pagename= JPost%2FJPArticl e%2FShowFull

11.Six wounded as Grads hit Beersheba
http://www.jpost. com/servlet/ Satellite? cid=123195085350 2&pagename= JPost%2FJPArticl e%2FShowFull

12.'International force if truce bid fails'

http://www.jpost. com/servlet/ Satellite? cid=123195086947 5&pagename= JPost%2FJPArticl e%2FShowFull

13.Gaza split prompts Arab countries to boycott
emergency summit

http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jan/ 15/gaza-egypt- saudi-qatar- summit

GUARDIAN [UK]
Gaza conflict: day 20

14.UN refugee agency headquarters hit by Israeli
artillery fire damaging thousands of tonnes of food,
medical supplies – and the Reuters building

http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ video/2009/ jan/15/israel- attack-gaza- un-reuters

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ELECTRONIC INTIFIDA [PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE SDITE ]
15.Targeting a cup of tea in Gaza

http://electronicin tifada.net/ v2/article10175. shtml

AL JAZEERA [ARAB NETWORK ]

16.Gaza: The endless cycle of trauma

http://english. aljazeera. net/focus/ war_on_gaza/ 2009/01/20091142 02338902362. html

17.Gazan babies born into war

Many of the more than 40,000 pregnant women in Gaza
are unable to leave their homes for medical treatment
because of the Israeli onslaught and hospitals swamped
with the thousands of injured.

http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2009/01/20091142 35912541915. html

18.Children 'paying price of Gaza war'
http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2009/01/20091157 268591938. html

19.Twitter: Live Gaza war updates

http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2008/12/20081229 16531937971. html

20.Israel's fait accompli in Gaza

http://english. aljazeera. net/focus/ war_on_gaza/ 2009/01/20091410 2257130539. html

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The Israeli offensive into Gaza now looks likely to
short-circuit any plans Obama might have had to press
Israel into withdrawing to its pre-1967 borders and
sharing Jerusalem.

Israel's successes in having Western media portray the
Gaza offensive as an 'anti-terrorist operation' will
also diminish hopes of peace talks any time soon.

Obama inherits this mess in a few weeks. During the
elections, Obama bowed to the Israel lobby, offering a
new US carte blanche to Israel and even accepting
Israel's permanent monopoly of all of Jerusalem.

As he concludes forming his cabinet, his Middle East
team looks like it may be top-heavy with friends of
Israel's Labour party.

Obama keeps saying he must remain silent on policy
issues until George Bush, the outgoing US president,
leaves office, but his staff appear happy to avoid
having to make statements about Gaza that would
antagonise Israel's American supporters.

Israel's Gaza offensive is also likely to torpedo the
current Saudi-sponsored peace plan, which had been
backed by all members of the Arab League.

The plan, now likely defunct, had called for Israel to
withdraw to its 1967 borders and share Jerusalem in
exchange for full recognition and normalised relations
with the Muslim world.