A humanitarian convoy [meaning they carried equipment for terrorists, the actual humanitarian convois cross the border from Israel under UN auspices (Leauki)] led by maverick MP George Galloway carrying medical supplies for Gaza has come under attack in Egypt The convoy, carrying aid worth £1 million, was pelted with stones and vandalised after it stopped in El-Arish, a small town around 28 miles from the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. "It's an absolute disgrace,'...
About talking to western peace activists: At this point I realized how silly I looked as a Palestinian defending Israel. Fuck Israel, what have they done for me lately? I'm joining in the fun! http://nizos.blogspot.com/2009/02/apartheid-discourse-spreading.html About 1948 and 1967, Zionism, and Arab governments when interviewed by a western student who seemed surprised by the answers: I care more about how the refugee crisis is perpetuated rather than about who and wha...
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Once again and as usual, we Arabs, at least some of us, are in a big mess . The Islamist extremist Hamas group which came to power through democracy in 2006, hijacked Gaza , established its rocket factories in residential areas , in bunkers under mosques , schools , and hospitals . For the past three years Hamas jihadists and their affiliates have launched their Kassam rockets at residential areas in Israel . Also during the cease fire brokered by Egypt in 2008, Ha...
I think Israel also deserves credit for being the only country in the middle east that kept the total number of casualties below 20,000. For some reason that never comes up in discussions of how evil Israel is. Algerian Civil War (1991-2002): - Algerian Arab government vs Islamists - 150,000-200,00 dead Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990): - Arab national socialists, Syria, and PLO vs Lebanese Catholics and (for some time) Israel - 130,000-250,000 dead (Israel wa...
According to reports I read, President Obama has pledged US$1 Billion to "rebuild" Gaza. I wonder what would happen if he sent that same amount of money to sub-Saharan Africa instead, to fight AIDS, actual poverty, and hunger? What, specifically, is Obama for and against? He obviously doesn't care about hungry Africans (or he would send them the money). But what's so important about killing Jews that the terrorists must receive new money? I don't get it? Why do Democrats hate hung...
A Pentagon review of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has concluded that the treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions ... The report, which President Obama ordered, was prepared by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of naval operations, and has been delivered to the White House. Obama requested the review as part of an executive order on the planned closure of the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, on the southeaster...
Shalom From Turkey Dear Sir or madam, I am a 31 years old Turkish man I do not want to take a risk or maybe advance my self by not showing my identity. So i am not posting via email. I just want to express my feelings. All my life, there was always some hate to Israel in me. But i dont know why? In my country, it was always like a duty that everyone should hate Israel and their religion without any reason Everyone hates israel here, but no one knows why. As usual, i grow up wit...
Elections are happening in Israel. Here is an overview of the four leading parties and their leaders. 1. Likud ("Consolidation"), Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu The original party of Ariel Sharon represents mostly right-of-centre Israelis including the "settlers" (Jews who live in areas that according to the UN should be Jew-free). Netanyahu wants to continue the peace process but focus more on the economy in the Arab territories rather than border questions. The Likud does not support the...
None of these will actually achieve much, but I find it interesting which of the three possibilities people choose. What can the world do to promote peace? Scenario A: Some Arab terrorist group fires at Israeli cities for a few years. Call 1 (before Israel fires back): "Stop shooting at the Israelis. It's morally wrong!" Call 2 (before Israel fires back): "Stop shooting at the Israelis. They will fire back!" Call 3 (after Israel fired back): "Stop shooting at t...
Apparently from Maxim mag originally, via Israellycool: http://www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mahmoudfinalclean.png
The Obama administration has given the Palestinian Authority a "green light" to talk to Hamas about forming a Palestinian unity government, a PA official in Ramallah said over the weekend. ... "The new administration has a different policy than that of [former US president] George W. Bush," the official told The Jerusalem Post. [I'll say!] "The administration of President Barack Obama believes that a Hamas-Fatah government is good for stability." http://w...
Since the 1970s the US have been standing 100% behind Israel. Also since then Israel was not involved in major wars any more. It is clear that this strategy has been a total failure and must be changed. Or so many liberals claim. Peace can only come, they say, when the US doesn't back Israel 100% but takes a more nuanced position. Let's look at this idea for a moment. What do we know about middle-eastern nations the US didn't support 100%. The only nation at war with the Arabs apart fro...
I thought of Gaza, under 100 miles to the south, with similar beaches and balmy weather, and similar possibilities of human advance. Could the Gazans join the Israelis to create a Riviera on their exquisite beaches, their glowing sands? To do so, they would have to leave behind a world of zero-sum chimeras and fantasies of jihadist revenge. And they would discover that their greatest ally is a man long portrayed as their most feared enemy, a man who, having led for decades the fight to liberat...
The ministry has disqualified a team from Ariel University Center of Samaria from the Solar Decathlon. Samaria and Judea are the two Biblical names for the land now known as the West Bank. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3781534,00.html I know, I know. This is not anti-Semitism. And the same thing would have happened to Arab students from a university in the West Bank or to Arab students from a university in Israel. No, I somehow doubt the team would have been dis...