Reuters: Israel digs in for long fight By Nidal Al- Mughrabi and Ori Lewis GAZA/JERUSALEM – Israel’s military pounded targets in the Gaza Strip after Prime Minister Netanyahu said his country needed to be prepared for a long conflict in the Palestinian enclave. Full Article Video[...]
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July 28th, 2014 - 10:30 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Israel will wipe out Hamas’ military resources
July 28th, 2014 - 8:21 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Email from, Israel
From: ********* Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 4:55 PM Subject: UPDATE #3, DAY 20, JULY 27, OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE UPDATE #3, SUNDAY: AT THE RISK OF INVITING THE “EVIL EYE” OR “MURPHY’S LAW” IT HAS BEEN SURREAL QUIET IN MY TOWN. WITH ALL THE ROCKETS BEING LAUNCHE[...]
July 28th, 2014 - 8:11 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Turkey to intervene in Gaza?
Ankara gives flotilla green light and protection of Turkish Navy according to organizer, IHH, the same group behind the 2010, Mavi Marmara, flotilla. Mavi Marmara Photo: Stringer Turkey / Reuters Amid Israel’s Operation Protective Edge to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza, a “Freedom F[...]
July 24th, 2014 - 9:12 am § in Israel/Palestine, Politics
A Cogent Arguement AGAINST Israel
AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America’s Morally Bankrupt Israel Policy Stephen M. Walt Professor of International Affairs, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (NOTE: I have edited the text to focus on Walt’s impressive argument that Netanyahu has an irredentist on[...]
July 22nd, 2014 - 9:41 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
‘Stop talking about this, the problem is there are too many Jews’.
From a French Web Site About Salmon[...]
July 21st, 2014 - 12:22 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
The Napoleon Syndrome
There is a drug for paranoid schizophrenia! One of the most amazing experiences of medical school was actually meeting schizophrenics. Reading about schizophrenia had not been enough to convince me that these people really had a special illness. After all, there seems to be enough variation [...]
July 19th, 2014 - 9:37 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
“Most of the time you don’t hear sirens… and there’s nowhere to hide,” Sheikh Jumaa Akshahar told Haaretz. “The entire Bedouin sector is asking but they give us nothing. The state isn’t intercepting the rockets [over the community] and isn’t protecting the citizens in the shacks. We are transparent.”
32-year-old Israeli Bedouin, Auda al-Wadj is second civilian killed since start of Gaza operation; four of his family members wounded; lack of protection for Negev Bedouin reached High Court last Thursday. By Chaim Levinson, Ido Efrati, Jack Khoury and Revital Hovel | Jul. 19, 2014 | 5:21 PM The fam[...]
July 12th, 2014 - 11:09 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Politics
Israeli weather report!
Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, threatens to fire on Tel Aviv at 9 PM. Hamas claims it has fired 571 rockets towards Israel from Monday till Friday. Today’s weather report (based on news from Ynet): Rocket attacks from Gaza continued unabated Saturday, with mul[...]
What Israel Wants
I think Israel’s plan is now clear. The near term end game is for Hamas to be made irrelevant, for the PLO (or perhaps Egypt) to provide governance in Gaza and to push the Palestinians there to the same side of peace that is already available for Arabs living in the West Bank … jobs [...]