All Entries Tagged With: "Gaza"

Photo of the Day

The starvation in Gaza is clearly taking its toll.

Palestinian men compete during a bodybuilding contest in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Approximately 20 men competed in the contest, and over 500 people attended the event. Although not the first of its kind to be held in the Gaza Strip, bodybuilding contests are rare in [...]

The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 22nd, 2009

US ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador Susan Rice, told Israelis at Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference that it is not enough just to pay “lip service” to peace and urged the government to immediately relaunch negotiations, without preconditions, aimed at creating an independent palestinian state.
By “lip service”, I guess she means what the Obama [...]

Gaza Bicycle Race, The Song

Inspired by this report and sung to the tune of Queen’s Bicycle Race
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
Obama I say white
Clinton I say bite
You say shark I say Haniyeh
Jews [...]

The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 23rd, 2009

It looks like Obama has adopted the annoyed schoolteacher approach to peacemaking,
US President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday that he was dissatisfied with their recent foot-dragging on getting Israeli-Palestinian talks restarted.
A senior White House source yesterday told Haaretz that “during the tripartite meeting Obama strongly expressed [...]

The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 9th, 2009

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The media reported that a letter written by IDF soldier Gilad Shalit just months after being taken captive by palestinian terrorists was released to them.
To my mother and father, brothers and friends, I send you Shalom.
My health is deteriorating daily, I am especially struggling emotionally and this [...]

The Day In Israel: Mon Sept 7th, 2009

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The Arab League and Hamas both said that Arabs should not normalize ties with Israel as long as we don’t implement a ” settlement freeze.”
“It is impossible to speak of normalization when Israel rejects any significant measure,” Arab League chief Amr Moussa said at a joint news [...]

Adventures of a Splodeydope

When I saw this photo late Friday afternoon, the following thoughts crossed my mind:

Members of a group called Jund Ansar Allah surround their leader Abdel-Latif Moussa (3rd L) after Friday prayers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 14, 2009. Islamist radicals from the Palestinian group called Jund Ansar Allah defied the Hamas rulers [...]

Reel Life in Gaza

It is not often I would ask you to read the rest of an article that begins “The 57-year-old Gaza vendor Adnan Abu Beid was preoccupied with showing his watermelons,” so bear with me.
The 57-year-old Gaza vendor Adnan Abu Beid was preoccupied with showing his watermelons, onions, fruits and vegetables at his little store in [...]

Liveblogging the War: Fri Jan 23rd, 2009

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Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
1:16PM: UN investigator Richard Falk says the situation in Gaza reminds him of the Warsaw Ghetto. I guess that is why he is a UN investigator, and not a history professor.
9:10AM: A PA official has stated that Israel made a big mistake by ending [...]

Liveblogging the War: Thurs Jan 22nd, 2009

Yesterday was another quiet day, but I’ll at least see this liveblogging through the week.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
6:03PM: Reuters caption of the day:
A cleaver lies on the stomach of freshly slaughtered cow outside Husam Nasr’s butcher shop in Gaza January 22, 2009. Nasr said he would have been able to sell the [...]