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Haveil havalim daily edition 07/24/2006

Since this isn't the regular Haveil Havalim I thought I might try a few different features.

In Depth: Yesterday Israel Matzav blogged

Middle East Newsline is reporting that Iran has spent the last six months planning Hezbullah's current war against Israel...

This timing meshes with an observation at the Counterterrorism Blog

Nasrallah admitted that it took five months of preparation to plan this operation.

I guess the question is whether the Hamas attack was coordinated with Hamas or if Hezbollah just took advantage of the front that had opened in the south.

What is clear is that the Hezbollah war against Israel is being run out of Iran. Gen. Moshe Yaalon and Prof. Fouad Ajami both mention this.

A lot of media coverage expresses concern that Israel's campaign could damage Lebanon's delicate democracy. Unfortunately Deja Vu and Meryl Yourish point out that the Lebanese government isn't exactly an innocent bystander.

BuzzTracker has more on the topic, leading off with Captain's Quarters.

Regular Stuff: Just one Minute and Mediacrity take off on Nicholas Kristoff's specious Spanish comparison.

Brain Terminal writes about why this war was inevitable.

Maryland Conservatarian looks for context in all the wrong places - the Washington Post that is - needless to say, he doesn't find it.

Contrasting John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Who'd have thunk it?

Assignment desk: Critique "Two Views of the Same News Find Opposite Biases." I wrote a little about this yesterday and hope to write some more. If you have ideas, blog a critique and e-mail me a link. Hopefully tonight I'll link to all those did. Write Assignment Desk in the subject line so that I'll know what it is. This is one of those efforts of the media to innoculate itself against charges of bias.

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