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10:39 PM
Another hudna?

Looks like it. A limited one, anyway. Or, as Meryl would say, another "shudna".

Noteworthy: this would apply only to rockets, not "other" forms of attack, such as suicide bombing... which is now apparently a favoured activity among the geriatric set, too. What, knitting needles were too boring?

Anyway, we've all seen this song-and-dance a zillion times before. The Palestinians call for a limited truce but continue to openly and brazenly defy it. Israel is finally provoked into reacting, and the whole world condemns Israel for "breaking" the truce.

Here we go again...

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6:09 PM
The vote to end all votes?

Well, maybe. Or maybe not. Nobody seems to know for sure what the results of a vote on whether to re-open the gay marriage debate in Parliament will mean, other than that Stephen Harper will notch one more promise onto his belt that he can claim to have kept.

I suppose the Tories need to do this, get past it, and get on with things; Harper is probably even secretly grateful that it's likely they'll lose. Despite his personal convictions, the last thing he wants is a divisive fight on the issue and lengthy court battles. Then again, the timing makes me wonder whether he's just trying to mobilize his conservative base ahead of an election.

In any case, the motion will probably be easily defeated. Here's hoping people can get over it at that point and get on with things, and that they don't allow this to devolve into a neverendum-referendum situation. The Quebec sovereignty issue is already one thing too many that refuses to go away. We don't need another.

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6:05 PM
Back to regularly-scheduled assassinations

Now that Syria's excitement in launching missiles at Israel through its proxy, Hezbollah, has been dampered thanks to the IDF, it has returned to its regularly-scheduled programming: assassinating Lebanese politicians:

Gunmen on Tuesday assassinated Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.

At least three gunmen rammed their car into Gemayel's vehicle near Beirut, then leapt out and riddled it with bullets, firing at Gemayel with silencer-equipped automatic weapons at point-blank range in a Christian neighborhood, witnesses said.

Ten bullet holes were seen around the window of the driver's seat of his grey car. The two front seats were soaked in blood.

The son of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri blamed Syria for the killing in the Sin el-Fil area, but Damascus condemned the murder.

Yeah, that condemnation means about as much as when Yasser Arafat used to 'condemn' Palestinian suicide bombers who murdered Israeli citizens.

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