Breaking News from the World’s Gone Upside Down Department
Carter was granted special waivers by the U.S. Secret Service allowing him to enter Gaza. Employees of the U.S. executive branch are not allowed into the strip since a roadside bomb killed three U.S. security personnel in 2003.
Taji writes on Al Jazeera’s message board:
“HAMMAS is a terror [...]
File this in the “Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse” category:
France’s comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has created a political party to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The French high court threw out a petition to ban this party from running in the elections as a racist party.
Their platform essentially states the [...]
The word on the street in Israel is varied after Obama’s monumental speech in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. President Netanyahu is now faced with a monumental dilemma of choosing between his coalition and relations with the United States.
The United States symbiotic relationship with Israel is not in jeapordy, however without Israel’s obeying Obama’s new policy shift, [...]
It’s always gratifying and refreshing to hear Arab pundits and experts admit the cracks in their political foundation.
The whole world it seems would be a much better place if Israel and the Palestinians could just get along. The western world, led by US President Obama, believes that the two-state solution would be the best way [...]
Update: The girlfriend pictured below is now a suspect in being present at at least two of the murders.
Adwan Yahiya Farhan, 34, has confessed to the murder of Israeli-American Dana Benet, and at least two other murders over the past decade. He is a an Israeli-Arab, whom his family claims is a “serial killer”.
The [...]
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086115.html
This headline would come as a shocker in any other country, in any other context, in any other time.
However, here in Israel in 2009, I was only surprised that the percentage was less than half.
The survey shows that Holocaust denial among Israeli Arabs has become more prevalent in recent years. In 2006, 28 percent of [...]
I read an interesting interview yesterday with a Rabbi from a program that specializes in keeping religious soldiers on the path of learning Torah _after_ they leave the army. I can’t remember the Rabbi’s name, but this was the gist of his argument on why Hamas and Palestinians seem to be gaining so much [...]
I remember as a kid in Chicago how I used to walk around the house (and neighborhood) and try to find the best spot for reception on my shortwave radio. In those days, tuning in to Israel Radio was like catching an ephemeral glimpse of far away land. At 4pm in the afternoon, [...]
Israel has worked hard to shed its old image of producing cheesy ethnic insider, one or no-joke movies.
Today’s Israeli movie scene has produced some very creative, critically acclaimed on an international level. There are many dozens of quality films that have been produced in Israel in the past decade.
Highlighted here [...]
The Arabs in Jerusalem can be seen wearing many different head dress styles. The keffiyeh means “kerchief” or scarf in English.
Many Palestinian men and women wear keffiyeh of cotton and wool mix, which lets them dry quickly and help keep the head warm in winter. The keffiyeh is usually folded in half, into a triangle, [...]
