Archive for March 25th, 2008

Hypocritic Oafs

This week, “human rights” group Physicians for Human Rights accused Israel of causing the deaths of sick palestinians by manipulating “security reasons” to reject their requests to cross the border for treatment in Israel or elsewhere. Five Palestinians, including a one-year-old baby, have died in Gaza over the past two months after Israel rejected on [...]

Weeds

In 1901, Dwight L. Elmendorf set out to visit Palestine and document it with photographs (his “only weapon,” as he put it.) He published the pictures in a 1912 book called “A Camera Crusade Through the Holy Land.” The photographs are quite good, but two are of particular interest. The first is of the “Mosque [...]

The Silverstein Treatment

Another blogger has received the “Richard Silverstein” treatment and has blogged about it here. The first time I visited his site, he tried to blame Israel for a 20 year-old Palestinian suicide attacker named Mohammed Salem Al-Harbawi, who killed himself and an Israeli woman early last month. Comments between myself and several other people were [...]

A Middle East Metaphor in Brooklyn

This story may be from last week, but I’ll post it anyway because: 1. It shows while US Muslims claim they are being victimized and are the victims of hate crimes, members of their community are victimizing and perpetrating hate crimes against others. 2. It is a great metaphor for what is happening in the [...]