Archive for May 6th, 2008
Shire Network News: Happy Birthday Israel
Shire Network News has just released our show for this week. The interview is with Prof Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. This is the second part of his interview.
Both last week and this we make extensive reference to Israel’s 60th [...]
The First Refugees of the War of Independence Were Jews
We will be hearing a lot in the next couple of weeks about the “Nakba” and how hundreds of thousands of Arabs became refugees.
Probably the largest flight of Arabs occurred in Jaffa in April and May of 1948, and many websites have weepy articles about how the Jews drove the Arabs out of Jaffa, reducing [...]
Bret Stephens in the WSJ: Where Are The Dead Women?
Today in the Wall Street Journal Bret Stephens writes well as usual. And reminds us of a time when journalists actually did work for a living with some numbers he quotes from back at the start of the current war against Israel. Not that I need tell this audience Israel is not genocidally killing people, [...]
Algerians Naming Their Daughters “Gaza Strip”
Firas Press reports that an Algerian town has started naming daughters “Gaza” in solidarity with Palestinian Arabs who live there.
Given the sewage problems there, let’s hope that the babies don’t suffer from severe diarrhea.
The Teacher Who Was a Bombmaker
Last week we reported on an Islamic Jihad rocket-maker who was also a UNRWA employee.
Now, Reuters has an “exclusive”:
By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, Palestinian militants say, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad.
The Israeli air strike that killed the [...]
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