Will Israel soon become a tipping point in American life?

The American mainstream is starting to awaken to Israeli madness. Andrew Sullivan, one of the country’s biggest bloggers, has been increasingly vocal in questioning the role of the Jewish state. Who else in the MSM is really doing so? The Netanyahu government has all but declared war on the Obama administration and then openly disses…

How Hamas will manage the impending Egyptian wall against Gaza

Abu Murrad, a nomme de guerre, senior commander in Rafah of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas: It’s not a big problem. There are already holes in the wall, and the Egyptians know this. We’ll go through it or under it. Already there are tunnels deeper than the wall. This is what…

Only dedicated Zionists please enter Israel

A curious story (via the Israeli blog Desert Peace) that questions the kinds of Jews Israel would like to accept: There seems to be a revision in the making to The Law of Return in Israel”¦.. ”˜Any Jew that speaks the truth about the occupation is not welcome here!”˜ Jared Malsin, the editor of the…

What’s the blockade doing to the Strip?

The latest weekly edition of Gaza Gateway: The firing of rockets and mortar shells on towns in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip last week should be categorically condemned, since it targeted Israeli civilians or failed to distinguish between military and civilian targets. The perpetrators and the Hamas government which allows militant groups to fire…

Israelis love to have an enemy

Larry Derfner in the Jerusalem Post defines his fellow country men and women as unified as a police state: When we think of the economy, we think of “me.” But when we think of “us,” we think first and last of “them.” Of course, there are loads and loads of generous, public-spirited Israelis doing great…

How soon would Israel like to destroy Gaza again?

The fear rises: Concerns of people who live in the Gaza Strip are mounting following the Israeli threats to carry out another large-scale war against the enclave similar to last winter’s “Cast Lead” operation. Khamis Abu Hasira, a 24-year-old Gaza resident, expressed his fear that Israel would soon initiate another destructive war against Gaza, adding…

Galloway has a few words for dictator Mubarak

Following the Gaza Freedom March and Viva Palestina, two humanitarian efforts bringing assistance to the people of Gaza, British MP George Galloway unloads on the US-client state of Egypt in a typically brash effort: I have been in a few dangerous places in my life. In the mid 80s along with an ITN news crew…

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