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You forget Willravel, Deep Throat provided hard copy documentation to Woodward and Bernstien. He wasn't just a voice. He was a voice with official documentation.
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Sometimes, but again this is about the verifiable evidence being provided to the journalist so that the journalist can test the validity of the source's claims. Once the journalist or journalists are satisfied with the veracity of the claims, they publish. We don't know who Uzi Mahnaimi spoke to in the Israeli military, only that the source spoke to the journalist and was able to pass the journalist's test. Ultimately it's not going to be about verifying the information by contacting the sources because they'd be charged with espionage. It's a question of whether or not you trust Uzi Mahnaimi and by extension the Sunday Times.
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As far as them breaking the six-month cease-fire, you apparently feel that rocket attacks into Israeli civilian centers isn't breaking a cease fire.
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Your time line is wrong.
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As far as kidnapping soldiers (an act of war) being a common practice, that only shows that Israel has shown restraint. And you forget that at least one soldier was killed during the kidnapping process.
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You're off base here. Hezbollah cannot commit an act of war because Hezbollah is not a government, it's a terrorist organization. Lebanon did not kidnap anyone and they immediately offered to help. Unfortunately, Israel was more than willing to attack an entire country over the acts of a few very foolish terrorists. I wonder where they learned that from.
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As far as "asymetrical attacks on civilian targets" those targets were where Hamas was launching rockets. Using civilians as shields in contemptable.
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You need to do homework before posting stuff like this, because it weakens your case. On January 15th, Israel launched white phosphorus (illegal) ammunition into the UN headquarters in Gaza, which has been confirmed to not have any Hamas militants. The facility did have Palestinian refugees, food, medicine, and UN workers.
UN headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli 'white phosphorus' shells - Times Online
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Willravel, most of your post is propoganda, period. Kidnappings, suicide bombings and rocket launches into Israeli civilian centers are ignored by you
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I find it deeply ironic that as you parrot Fox News talking points you accuse me of spreading propaganda. I look forward to you failing to refute the articles I posted.