Category Archives: Israel/Palestine
While the news has been fixated on the Japanese disaster, rightly so, the fact that this story has gotten little airplay is upsetting.
On Friday night some terrorists cut through a security fence and entered the Israeli town of Itamar in the West Bank. They then picked a house, this time the house of Udi and Ruth Fogel, and proceeded to stab to death the couple along with their 3 month old daughter and two sons (3 and 11) Continue reading
I don’t think things are playing out like Obama and company had planned:
“…the news of the day is none other than Ayman Nour telling a Lebanese TV station that it’s time to revisit the treaty with Israel. Nour isn’t some random talking head; he’s been in and out of prison for years for daring to demand liberal reforms from Mubarak’s regime, and actually went so far as to run against Mubarak for president in the rigged election of 2005. Not only is he a cause celebre in the west, he’s sufficiently prominent that Bush name-checked him in his speech on democracy in Prague back in 2007.” Continue reading
Think this revelation by wikileaks will cost human lives? A U.S. cable leaked on Monday said Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas’s forces worked closely together against Hamas as it took over Gaza in 2007, a potentially embarrassing revelation for the … Continue reading





