All Entries Tagged With: "Operation Cast Lead"

The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 15th, 2009

Cold turkey: Israel’s relations with Turkey are heading southward after a vehemently anti-Israel television program was shown prime time Tuesday evening on the state-run station TRT1, prompting Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to register a protest with the Turkish envoy.
An inflammatory anti-Israeli television show in Turkey on Tuesday did what Ankara’s cancellation of Israeli participation [...]

The Day In Israel: Sun Oct 11th, 2009

Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath has expressed her views on how Israel can reduce palestinian terrorism.
Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath on Saturday said all Hamas prisoners held in Israel should be released in order to bring Gilad Shalit home.
“I don’t understand why we incarcerate them in Israel [...]

The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 8th, 2009

Believe it or not, anti-Israel celebrity Vanessa Redgrave has opposed those who protested the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to showcase Tel Aviv.
British actress Vanessa Redgrave – a well-known critic of Israel – has joined the controversy surrounding the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to showcase Tel Aviv, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
Only this time, she is [...]

The Day In Israel: Fri Oct 2nd, 2009

The PA has dropped its plans to present a draft resolution condemning Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead to the Human Rights Council for a vote in Geneva today, in effect deferring its adoption of the Goldstone Report. The decision seems to be the result of pressure of the Obama administration kind.
The source added that [...]

The Day In Israel: Tues Sept 29th, 2009

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Last night, the IAF struck a rocket launching device in the Gaza Strip, which was aimed at Israel and set to fire. This followed a day in which palestinians fired 4 Qassam rockets and multiple mortar shells at Israel, and [...]

Liveblogging the War: Fri Jan 23rd, 2009

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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.
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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 [...]

Liveblogging the War: Wed Jan 21st, 2009

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Sorry for the radio silence but let’s just say real life and a faulty internet connection got in the way. Either that, or Barack Obama was trying to silence me during his inauguration.

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12:00AM: That’s it from me for today, [...]

Liveblogging the War: Tues Jan 20th, 2009

You’re not done with my liveblogging just yet, since I am not convinced that this ceasefire is going to hold very long.
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6:30PM: File this under Those Effin’ French: France may be prepared to talk to Hamas even if it does not recognize Israel.
6:20PM: You [...]

Operation Cast Lead Mon Jan 19th, 2009

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If you don’t count the 20+ rockets and mortar shells that were fired into Israel yesterday, the ceasefire is holding. But given its fragility, methinks it wise to keep up the liveblogging for now.
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Tuesday Jan 20th -for latest updates, [...]