Hamas speaks

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Author(s)	Los Angeles Times editorial board
Source	Los Angeles Times
Date	January 6, 2009
URL	http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-marzook6-2009jan06,0,7077954.story
Quote	"This week's war is not an attack on the Izzidin al-Qassam units -- our movement's military wing -- but is simply aggression targeting the people, infrastructure and economic life of Gaza, designed to sow terror and loose anarchy; it aims to establish new "facts on the ground" -- that is, heaps of rubble with bodies trapped beneath -- in advance of the coming American administration."

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This item argues against the position Israel was right to attack Gaza on the topic 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict.