As Israel’s 60th anniversary passes, and the news media goes out of its way to contrast the past sixty years from the Israeli and Palestinian Arab perspectives, one question not being asked is: where is the ideological core of Palestinian Arab nationhood? From following articles by Palestinian Arabs in the West decrying Israeli “crimes” and [...]
Forget Ambiguous Explosion, Mysterious Explosion and Vague Blast. Here’s the latest in palestinian work accident euphemisms. The militant group Hamas said early Sunday morning that one of its members had been killed in an explosion along Gaza’s fence with Israel. The Islamic group’s military wing said a man was killed, and another injured, during a [...]
I bet you didn’t know that Pepsi Cola was a tool of the International Zionist Conspiracy. Actually, neither did I until Hamas MP Salem Salamah told us so. Salem Salamah: There are companies established by the colonialists and occupiers – large companies with branches all over the world, like Pepsi, Pepsi Cola. This is a [...]
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 [...]
From BBC: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stressed that pledges made at the Paris conference were for the Palestinian people, not the US. “Clearly when you make a pledge you ought to fulfil it,” she said after the talks. US officials say that of $717m promised by Arab League members, only $153m of Arab [...]
Who said Arabs don’t have a sense of humor? Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas underwent an unannounced heart test at a Jordanian hospital on Thursday, adding new uncertainty to already troubled peace talks. Aides to Abbas, 73, said he was doing well after a catheterization procedure they described as successful, and that he was expected to [...]
It would seem that the UN does not just employ people who are either friendly with terrorists or sh*t-scared of them. They also employ the terrorists themselves. One person was killed and three were wounded Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a metal shop in Rafah, according to Palestinian security and medical sources. Israel Defense [...]
The Jerusalem Post reports on the latest Hamas threats against Israel, if Israel dares not accept their Egypt’s truce initiative. Israel may have 200 nuclear warheads, but Hamas has 200,000 people who want to blow themselves up inside Israel, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said Tuesday. No doubt Zahar is not counting himself in that figure [...]
It has been a few hours since Israel determined that the Gaza blast that killed most of a family was the result of a secondary explosion from targeted terrorists outside the house carrying munitions. AP’s Ibrahim Barzak is now reporting Israel’s side of the story, but very skeptically: In a statement, the military said explosives [...]
From commenter Mesow (from Gaza): Well, I’m not Gazan, but I live here, and I think, being Christian, that Hamas is so close-minded, hateful and showing how strong it is by killing civilians either Israelis or Palestinians, dont think Hamas killed Israelis only, but everyone in its way, and uses little kids (3-15 years old) [...]
