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Another day, another “mysterious explosion.”

An unidentified citizen was killed and 16 others wounded, two of them seriously, in a mysterious explosion at the house of a Hamas member in central Gaza City on Saturday morning.

Residents reported that a large explosion rocked Gaza City at 7:15am on Saturday. According to eyewitnesses, the explosion took place at the house of Nader Abu Sha’ban, a Hamas member, in the Al-Fawakhir region of central Gaza City.

Dr Muawiyah Hassanein, director of ambulance and emergency services at the Ministry of Health, said that the dead body was taken from the house and the other 16 causalities were taken to hospital. Those injured are members of the household and neighbours. He reported that two of the injured are in serious condition.

The Palestinian security forces and police are examining the causes of the incident.

I really hope they conclude the examination soon because the suspense is killing me.

Just ask Sharon Stone.

When I saw this AP photograph, my immediate thought was “Why did the chicken cross the road?” However, it seems I was beaten to the punch by Israellycool contributor Elder of Ziyon, who is holding a caption contest.

But to answer the question, it could be simply that the bird does not fancy being killed with one stone.

Either that, or it’s on its way to a palestinian police training session.

With the blog-triggered Dunkin’ Donuts keffiyeh controversy receiving quite a bit of airplay in the mainstream media, another keffiyeh controversy is now being reported from Australia.

And the story has a number of interesting aspects. For a start, the complaints have not just originated from those who deplore the ubiquitization of palestinian terror chic. Palestinians have also taken offense - for very different reasons.

The “keffiyeh kerfuffle” - which forced Dunkin’ Donuts to dump an ad featuring a celebrity chef wearing a scarf similar to a traditional Arab head-dress - has hit a Bondi bottleshop, one of its staff claims.

Sandra Tieger, 20, alleged to smh.com.au she began to feel like a terrorism supporter following the reaction to her wearing a black and white scarf to work at Kemeny’s.

Ms Tieger’s claims - which the store rejects - follow attacks on an ad for the US Dunkin’ Donuts chain, in which celebrity chef Rachael Ray wore a scarf. Critics have said the scarf has “violent symbolism and anti-Israel overtones”.

But Ms Tieger said she had “no idea about the politics” when she bought the scarf at the Tree Of Life store.

“I thought it was a nice scarf, a cowboy scarf. I thought: ‘It’s black and white, no-one will say anything to me because that’s all we can wear [with our work uniform]‘.

“A Palestinian customer came up and asked me if I’m wearing this scarf as a fashion statement or for political reasons.

“I had no idea what he was talking about because I don’t follow politics at all. I just laughed it off.

“Two days later he called and complained about it.”

Shevonne Hunt, a freelance journalist who has reported on the keffiyeh’s popularity in Australia, said many Palestinians were annoyed the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.

In other words, palestinians are annoyed that the keffiyeh’s violent symbolism is being watered down by its widespread use. Which reinforces what an emotive symbol of terrorism it really is.

The story has another interesting yet troubling aspect. While many Jews have justifiably taken offense to the keffiyeh, not so the head of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff said the wearing of the keffiyeh as a fashion item was a “non-issue”.

“It’s a non-issue as far as we are concerned. If someone chooses to wear such an item for whatever reason that’s their choice.”

This is the same Vic Alhadeff who earlier this year raised concerns over two NSW stores that had been selling Nazi memorabilia and clothing, saying it “sends a very unfortunate and dangerous message for people to be openly displaying Nazi insignia, given what the Nazis stood for and given that Australia fought against the Nazis.

Why isn’t Mr Alhadeff also indignant over the widespread wearing of keffiyehs, given what “palestinian terrorists stand for”? Because let’s face it, the main difference between them and the Nazis is the numbers.

Seriously, I think this guy’s eyebrows have eaten through to his brain.

Another picture of a palestinian “little guy.”

Only this time, he’s not carrying an M-16.

Which begs the questions:

1. Is this considered to be a “work accident”? Or how about an “ambiguous explosion”?

2. Drug smuggling, weapons smuggling, even Viagra smuggling. Who’d have thought the palestinians also did budgie smuggling?

3. What the hell is a Fijian peacekeeper doing training with palestinian policemen?

The evil Zionist settler pigs are back

Once again, Ma’an publishes this story with a straight face:

Settlers from the Ariel settlement have dumped wild pigs on Thursday in ‘Ein Al-Qabileh neighborhood south of Salfit where they smashed the farmers’ plants.

Farmer Mohammad Faleh ‘Omran said that the pigs destroyed his tomato seedlings, ruined the earth and trampled on his plants.

Farmer Mahmoud Hassan said that the pigs smashed his apple shrubs and his field at night.

He added that the farmers have killed three pigs among the large herds released by the settlers.

Yes, those Zionists have bred pigs that can distinguish between Arab and Jewish crops. They spend years raising these huge herds of pigs specifically to dump them in Arab villages when they reach just the right amount of maturity. They drive over to the Arab neighborhoods in trucks and dump them there, knowing implanting them with embedded microchips they will leave the village and make their way to Arab farms and cause damage far less than the value of the pigs themselves.

How nefarious can you be?

Previous Zionist pig sightings here, here and here. Oh, and a Zionist lion once terrorized poor Palestinian Arabs as well..

This week on Shire Network News my partner, Tom Paine, hosted the show from Australia and spoke to Philippe Karsenty about his recent appeal success in Paris. It’s a great show, even if I’m not hosting it!

Podcast Probes the Al-Durah Hoax Yet Again

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to leave his post or prepare for early elections, saying he did not believe Olmert could simultaneously lead the country and deal with his personal affairs. No doubt Olmert will push the envelope and refuse to budge.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas believes the political crisis in Israel will hurt peace talks. Meanwhile, what terrorism?

Israel has sent 2 more Hamasholes to receive their 72 raisins.

Elder of Moron Desmond Tutu is drawing on his extensive experience in international law to proclaim as illegal Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Dr J’s in da house.

It’s official: majority of Ha’aretz readers have a few screws loose.

The American Thinker posts that an author plans the “citizens arrest” of John Bolton.

About bloody time.

Update: Sorry, my bad. I thought it read Michael Bolton.

She’s still getting herself into trouble over her butt.

An Israeli tourist who stripped naked last week when New Zealand road workers whistled at her has been admitted to a mental health unit after allegedly assaulting a bar worker, police said Wednesday.

The woman was arrested Friday night after allegedly putting out a cigarette on the face of a bar worker in the tourist town of Coromandel on North Island.

She appeared in Hamilton District Court on Saturday charged with assault with intent to injure and was remanded to Waikato Hospital’s mental health unit, said constable Peter Easton of the Coromandel police.

On the plus side, she’s now qualified to run for the Knesset.

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