January 2nd 2009
The First Watcher’s Winners Of The Year
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t takes more than a little Auld Lang Syne to keep the Watcher of Weasels from his appointed rounds, and true to form, he posted this week’s Watcher’s Council quest for the best of the blogosphere right on schedule. We’re starting the year with some good stuff – pretty much my selections, which is reaffirming in a week when good ol’ C-SM bombed out.
Winning among the Council entries was Joshuapundit’s Gaza:A Tale Of Selective Morality and Tribal Warfare, the pick o’ the litter of a bunch of great analyses of the latest Israel/Hamas confrontation, followed by The Razor’s Walking In Israel’s Shoes, which does some pretty nifty stuff with maps to make you feel what israelis feel when Hamas fires off rockets.
I picked Razor for third, and Bookworm for second. Her Hamas’ “Heroes” — and the need for total victory over evil also does a nifty job of putting the conflict in real-feel terms.
On the non-Council side, the results reflected my votes. David Keyes came in first with his post from Commentary, Sderot under Seige, which takes us into the bulls-eye of Hamas’ targeting and elsewhere around Israel and Gaza to help us to understand what’s going on there. Coming in second was Melanie Phillips writing in The Guardian, Groundhog day for the fifth column of malice, highlighting the role of the media in perpetrating Hamas’ insanity.
Read all the winners here. Thanks, Watcher, for good work under holiday pressure. Uh … you can take the lampshade off your head now.
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