December 25, 2008

Happy Holidays from Hamas: Crucifixion OK'd as Punishment in Gaza

I suppose the Jews forced them into this: the tradition-minded legislators of Gaza reached way back into the annals of jurisprudence to find appropriate censure for some crimes. As filtered through various sources and finally mentioned on Solomonia:

Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza have approved a new bill "to implement Koranic punishments," including hand amputation, crucifixion, corporal punishment and execution.

It's nice to see Hamas finds the old Roman ways worth emulating. What's next, reading chicken entrails and speaking Latin?

When Hamas does crucify someone, I wonder what kind of play it will in the mainstream press. "Ancient Penalty Reflects New Strictures Imposed by Israel" sounds about right.

Van | 12/25/08 at 03:34 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 14, 2007

Outing Arafat

The inimitable Mark Steyn on a late unlamented thug:

Jonah, that Arafat-died-of-Aids story is “no shocker” to you, and pretty much an open secret in diplomatic circles. I’m in Madrid at the moment, and it prompted many knowing chortles among political types I mentioned it to today, along with fond reminiscences about Yasser’s corps of hunky blond Scandinavian bodyguards - an odd bunch of chaps to find in Ramallah, but presumably they were doing the jobs Palestinians won’t do.

Yet this revelation no doubt came as news to most of the late Father of his Country’s citizenry. So it will be interesting to see the impact of this revelation on Fatah’s already collapsed standing. When Ahmad Jibril announces “to every honorable member of the Fatah movement that he should be happy that we got rid of the plague, which had been imposed upon them and upon the Palestinian people”, I would assume he knows whereof he speaks. If you were a Hamas publicity guy and you wanted to deliver the coup de grace to a regime of unloved secular kleptocrats, outing them as promiscuous gay secular kleptocrats would seem to be the perfect move.

Judith | 07/14/07 at 10:45 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 17, 2007

Key Theological Dispute Drives Wedge Into Hamas

September 1, 2007: Tarnishing its image as the most unstoppable military force since the Wermacht rolled over France, Hamas has been thrown into an uproar as Gaza has splintered into at least 10 different zones in the wake of a ferocious theological dispute.

Heads and fatwas were flying off the rooftops this past week as different factions vied to prove which one hates Jews more. While Westerners were baffled by the contentions, sources told us "this is a super important matter. Whoever hates the Jews the most gets major props in Gaza, right up there with having the sharpest ski mask."

Initially, after crushing Fatah in the June coup, Hamas displayed a fairly uniform level of homicidal intent toward Jews. In the following weeks, however, sharp differences appeared. At first, varying levels of foaming rage led to a north-south split, with Original Hamas in the northern Gaza and New Original Hamas setting up shop in the south.

But the disputations raged until the ever-changing map of Gaza looked like the inside of Arafat's medicine cabinet.

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Van | 06/17/07 at 09:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 14, 2007

Gaza Year Zero: Khmer Rouge With Korans

I wanted to give Hamas the benefit of a doubt. Despite differences of opinion on Israel policy issues, I accepted the argument that the group primarily wanted to reform Palestinian territories, be rid of the corrupt Fatah adminstrators, set up social welfare programs, speak truth to the power of American/imperialist hegemonistic ambitions, protect the environment and all living creatures, support healthy lifestyles and encourage moral behavior. Everything sounded so right.

In fact, I viewed Hamas very much the way a clear-sighted U.S. journalist described another reformist group, or at least one of the group's leaders. According to Powerlineblog, the journalist wrote that the man was

a "French-educated intellectual" who wanted nothing more than "to fight against feudal privileges and social inequities."

Wow, that kind of resume would play well at the Iowa Democratic caucuses.

Unfortunately, the journalist misunderestimated the kind of fight the group had in mind. The writer was Sydney Schanberg, the group was the Khmer Rouge.

After everything I've read about Gaza this week, the killing fields sounds like a possible template for the social evolution of Gaza.

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Van | 06/14/07 at 08:28 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 13, 2007

In Fact, You ARE a Jew

The atrocities and statements coming out of Gaza are stomach-turning, but not surprising. Even those whose celebrate suicide bombings (by others) have no desire to die. At the last moment, they act like rational beings who want to prolong life. However, some of them combine the will to exist with poisonous hatred of Jews. That hatred breaks through even as they struggle to keep alive -- they can't stop thinking about Jews.

I thought about this when I read the account of one more death in Gaza, from the London Telegraph:

Among yesterday's dead was a 14-year-old boy and three women, all killed in a Hamas attack on a Fatah security officer's home.

"They're firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We're not Jews," the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a Fatah commander, pleaded during a live telephone conversation with a Palestinian radio station.

Minutes later both men were dragged into the streets and riddled with bullets.

You're wrong. You ARE a Jew. Tell me, from whatever version of the World to Come you now inhabit, what does it feel like?

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Van | 06/13/07 at 09:43 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

The Legend of "Stonewall" Abbas: From the Annals of the Palestinian Civil War Reenactment Society

August 1, 2011: When Johnny Jihadi, Billy Burkha and Bobby Wahabi squared off in the Palestinian Civil War, they created a bloody time of legends, when men did brave deeds in the tragic fight of brother against brother, secular Jew-hater vs. religious Jew-hater. And shining most brightly in the Palestinian Pantheon is General Mahmoud "Stonewall" Abbas, the greatest military mind ever produced by the Palestinians.

In this new report from the annals of the Palestinian Civil War Reenactment Society, we discuss the truth behind the legend of Stonewall Abbas.

It began in the uneasy summer of 2007, when Hamas and Fatah were still on relatively good terms, with some raised voices and wagging fingers but nothing to get excited about. But then . . .

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Van | 06/13/07 at 07:56 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

May 21, 2007

Annals of the Palestinian Civil War Reenactment Society

July 1, 2010 -- The first meeting of the Palestinian Civil War Reenactment Society will now come to order.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary. First, let me say how excited we are at the great turn-out at this organizational meeting. We know how challenging it can be to get together to reenact the Civil War while it's taking place, but we suspected that a substantial number of people would want to take part in this exciting activity.

And what amazing activities we have planned. This civil war reenactment society is going to, so to speak, kick a little tushy.

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Van | 05/21/07 at 09:23 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

April 09, 2007

Robert Novak opens mouth, swallows propaganda

In his recent column in the Washington Post, Robert Novak's credulity toward his Palestinian tour guides, rehearsal of discredited tropes and total lack of curiousity about the other side of the story is a painful example of the cliche that "lies run around the world before truth gets out of bed and puts on its shoes." Let us count the ways.

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Judith | 04/09/07 at 10:19 PM | 13 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

April 05, 2007

Brit Tzedek V'Shalom doesn't impress LA shul

Allyson Rowen Taylor of Stand With Us attended a speech by one of the leaders of Brit Tzedek V'Shalom at Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue, one of the largest in the LA area and pulpit of author Rabbi Harold Shulweis. BTvS promotes the Baker-Hamilton Report, sponsors "Combatants for Peace" (which we wrote about here) and holds Israel responsible for everything that happens to the Palestinians (being a classic case of Richard Landes' Masochistic Omnipotent Syndrome). But their positions are even more ridiculous than I thought.

Allyson's report (via email) is emotional but contains some facts:

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Judith | 04/05/07 at 06:12 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 22, 2007

Training Up the Next Generation of Soldier Bots

Instilling young Palestinian children with their parents' ideals on Hamas children's tv. Instead of Sesame Street, this is what they get.

Watch a four-year-old girl sings about the glories of her mother, female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi.

Imagine coming from a culture where maternal self-sacrifice means not how much one's mother was prepared to do to to help her children; but, rather, that she considered taking care of her children of lesser importance than blowing herself up while killing a few enemies.

Now there's a life lesson no shrink will be able to overcome.

And there's a whole generation being trained up to think this way. These are now "Palestinian values."

Golda Meir's words are as relevant now as the day they were first spoken: “We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”

That goal is not yet in sight.

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Alcibiades | 03/22/07 at 12:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 18, 2007

The latest "hard line": Israel has the right to exist

Associated Press headline: Israel Affirms Hard Line on Palestinians

What's the hard line?

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday peace talks with the Palestinian coalition government would be impossible as long as it refuses to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist. . . . "We can't have contact with members of a government that justifies resistance, or in other words, terror," Olmert said, according to meeting participants.

Harsh.

Here is the generous peace deal Olmert is taking a hard line on:

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Judith | 03/18/07 at 11:45 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 13, 2007

Moronic Convergence Alert

Hugo Chavez rolls out the red carpet for Hamas.

The Hamas Movement on Wednesday received an official invitation to visit Caracas during a meeting in Tehran between visiting Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro and a Hamas delegation. Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy political bureau chairman of Hamas, told PIC that the Hamas delegation led by its political bureau chairman Khaled Mishaal conferred with the Venezuelan foreign minister on overall Palestinian conditions in the light of the Israeli aggressions and the western siege.

. . . Meanwhile, a source close to the Hamas Movement said that Caracas might well be one of the countries that Hamas leadership would visit within its current tour of a number of countries a bid to rally support for the Palestinian unity government.

Judith | 03/13/07 at 10:37 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 07, 2007

Lovely: German Bishops Compare West Bank to Warsaw Ghetto

Of all the people in the world who ought to be careful about making insensitive remarks comparing Jews to Nazis, you think high among them would be German Catholic religious leaders. Unfortunately that is not the case.

Yad Vashem lambasted a group of visiting German Catholic bishops on Tuesday for comparing the situation in the Palestinian territories with the Holocaust, calling the contentious remarks "political exploitation and demagoguery" and a gross distortion of history.

The sharp condemnation ... followed reports in the German press of comparisons made by senior German bishops between conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II and current conditions in Ramallah, resulting from Israeli military activities.

"The remarks illustrate a woeful ignorance of history and a distorted sense of perspective," Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev wrote in a Tuesday letter to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, who led the Conference of German Catholic Bishops on a 10-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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Alcibiades | 03/07/07 at 02:03 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

February 19, 2007

Sudden Jihad Syndrome redux

More Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Is anyone collecting these? Like the Bloody Borders Project or the list of Americans killed by Middle East terrorists or specifically by Palestinians?

Add another one to the list.

Judith | 02/19/07 at 06:14 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

February 13, 2007

Where Are the Israelis?

Those of us who have written countless opeds and blog posts trying to push Israeli strength only to witness its continued weakness will find expression for their frustration in the words of Dr. Steve Carol:

...Where are the Israelis? Where are Israeli citizens out demonstrating en masse - tens of thousands in every city - banging pots and pans, shouting, "The government must go"? Where is a nationwide strike to force the government to step down? Where are the massive calls for reforms to be made, for a sound policy voiced, and for Israel to return to the image, status and power it had at the conclusion of the Six Day War?

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Cinnamon | 02/13/07 at 07:26 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

February 12, 2007

NYTimes gets the kaffiyeh kraze wrong too

Speaking of people who think Israel is an "apartheid state" . . . . you might assume a scruffy youngster with a kaffiyeh around his/her neck would be booking it down to the Judson Church for some (self) righteous Palestinian . . . more »

Judith | 02/12/07 at 12:26 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 29, 2007

"We Are Living In A State of Chaos and Lawlessness"

Bethlehem Christians Break Their Silence Over Muslim Treatment by Khaled Abu Toameh, who is himself a Palestinian Muslim. Rowan Williams - our favorite archidiot - loves to blames the Jews for the condition of the Bethlehem Christians. But Jews do . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/29/07 at 09:09 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 25, 2007

Israel: A Stiff Necked Country

Israel: A Stiff Necked Country That's not my opinion, by the way; rather, its my translation of Jimmy's belief that Israel was "intransigent." I guess he believed he had the God's eye view, that he shared God's perspective and God's . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/25/07 at 06:42 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 13, 2007

From Michael Totten in South Lebanon

Michael Totten and Noah Pollack visit South Lebanon guided by Said and Henry, who work for the Lebanese Committee for UNSCR 1559, an NGO which closely advises the Lebanese government and the international community on the disarmament of illegal militias . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/13/07 at 06:47 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 11, 2007

14 Members of the Carter Center Resign

From the letter sent by 14 members of the Carter Center announcing their resignation, now published in the WSJ: The facts in dealing with the conflict are these: There are two national narratives contesting one piece of land. The Israelis, . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/11/07 at 11:35 AM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 07, 2007

Squick to the Millionth Degree

In his new book, Terry MacAuliffe reports that Arafat repeatedly rubbed his leg under the table at a dinner in Washington in 2000. The idea of this has me gagging into my cereal. It's Arafat. Rubbing leg. Enough said. Oriana . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/07/07 at 10:49 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 28, 2006

Hizbullah paying Gazans for Kassam Attacks on Israel

Saddam's successor as an enabler of terror in Gaza has arrived - and its Hizbullah: Hizbullah is paying Palestinian splinter groups "thousands of dollars" for each Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev, The Jerusalem Post has learned. According to . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/28/06 at 01:54 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 25, 2006

Fantastic Discussion in the Comments

Following from the recent conference in Israel on Israel and media, there is a fantastic conversation going on in the comments on a post by Liza, particularly between Richard Landes and Don Radlauer on the problem of Israel and Israel's . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/25/06 at 09:12 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 22, 2006

Carter Criticism Roundup

Sneaking in a last post just before Shabbat begins - and wah! the computer just ate is - now I'm really crunching it to reproduce the links: For those of you from a more liberal political persuasion, Professor Mel Konner's . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/22/06 at 04:11 PM | 9 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 21, 2006

More On the British Perspective on Bethlehem

Ruth Gledhill from the London Times, blogs about Bethlehem: [W]hen it comes to the undoubted plight of Christians in the Holy Land, it is strange that there is so little criticism of Hamas, under which a tiny minority of Christians . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/21/06 at 03:04 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 19, 2006

Is This Carter's Source For His Recent Book?

Melanie Phillips has a new column about British perception of the severely deteriorating situation of Bethlehem's Christian, which we discussed below. In the course of her column, Phillips mentions a book that appears to have misinformed top members of the . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/19/06 at 02:30 AM | 13 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 18, 2006

The Daily Mail Reports on the state of Bethlehem

And amazingly for a British paper, gives an accurate account of the current desperate situation in Bethlehem for its small remaining Christian population. "As Christians, we have no future here," [one Christian inhabitant] says... "I would rather have a beautiful . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/18/06 at 01:04 AM | 8 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 17, 2006

Carter Refuses to Debate Dershowitz

After going on and on about the alleged lack of debate in the United States regarding the Mideast conflict, former President Jimmy Carter is now refusing put his own ideas to the test. According to the Associated Press: Former President . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/17/06 at 04:05 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

December 10, 2006

Denounce Judaism and Get an A

Ukranian immigrant and San Francisco Bay Area Jewish activist Aleksandra Fliegler speaks to the need for Jews to start standing up against anti-Semitism on college campuses and demonstrating pride and strength in their heritage. (To that end, B'nai B'rith International . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/10/06 at 08:00 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

November 28, 2006

Mideast "Peace Process" Makes for Surreal Headlines

In the surreal world of Mideast "peace processes," in which the media plays along with the charade that there are actually two sides involved, surreal headlines tend to come with the territory. Here's a recent few that come to mind: . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/28/06 at 03:02 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

November 04, 2006

Vanity Fair's Sickening Puff Piece on Haniyeh

In recent years, I've read more romanticized profiles of terrorist leaders in the mainstream media than I'd care to admit. But Vanity Fair's sickening puff piece on Palestinian prime minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh takes the cake. Authored by . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/04/06 at 02:32 PM | 4 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 30, 2006

Nation-building and good intentions

Cal Thomas interviews Condi Rice, who tries to make the case for a Palestinian State, based on the universal appeal of freedom and prosperity: . . . . you can look at any opinion poll in the Palestinian territories and . . . more »

Judith | 10/30/06 at 12:04 AM | 4 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 26, 2006

Those Industrious Palestinians At It Again

Amongst those seduced by the Palestinian "cause," there is much lamenting over the perceived absence of statehood. But what's lost admidst all the handwringing is that a de facto Palestinian state already exists. And as predicted by many an observer, . . . more »

Cinnamon | 10/26/06 at 01:25 AM | 13 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 24, 2006

2nd Al Durah Trial Starts Today

Neo Neocon is in Paris to cover the second Al Durah Trial with an explanation of who France2 is suing for libel. And why it is bound to strike Americans, used to freedom of speech, as absurdist right off the . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/24/06 at 09:10 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 22, 2006

Disengagement Article Published In New Book

Forgive the shameless self-promotion, but I wanted to share some good news. I'm pleased to announce that one of my articles is included in a new book, "United States and the World Face to Face: America's Best and Worst: Women, . . . more »

Cinnamon | 10/22/06 at 10:01 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 19, 2006

Fauxtography Rules!

[With UPDATES at the bottom] Apparently it does in France where news suppression and journalism as propaganda has just won a victory. In appalling news from unfree France, on the first of the Al Dura trials currently ongoing in France, . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/19/06 at 11:50 AM | 6 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 17, 2006

More Objective Reporting From Reuters

On Tuesday, a Reuters cameraman, working in the West Bank, was remanded into custody by the Judea-area military court. What were the charges, you ask? Nothing special. Just the usual kind of objective methodology we've now grown accustomed to seeing . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/17/06 at 03:57 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 11, 2006

Avoiding Political Embarrassment the Columbia University Way

How do you avoid political embarrassment at Columbia University these days? Disinvite invited guests to a talk sure to interest conservatives and other hawks in the larger NYC community. A talk, by the bye, well advertised in several major conservative . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/11/06 at 08:54 PM | 12 Comments | 12 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

October 05, 2006

Good cop, bad cop

The PA struggles over which face to present to the world, while Israel continues its diplomatic work. Some sobering thoughts on the Iraqi government - and on men in government everywhere - plus advances for gay rights in California round . . . more »

Asher Abrams | 10/05/06 at 10:33 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

August 12, 2006

Tools in the propaganda campaign

A compact summary in a short video of the recent Lebanon photo fraud. The methods of Palestinian film propaganda, exposed, using raw footage: . . . more »

Judith | 08/12/06 at 08:06 PM | 15 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

August 11, 2006

Toward victory, and beyond . . .

What next? Israel's leader, facing an unprecedented crisis of confidence, must decide quickly which course to take in Lebanon; but the Israelis seem to be getting ready to shift tactics in favor of a more mobile approach. Islamic fascists in . . . more »

Asher Abrams | 08/11/06 at 12:39 PM | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

August 03, 2006

Trying to avoid sinat chinam

[ Very RELATED: Pamela's interview with Caroline Glick at PJ Media. Listen to the whole thing. Also Glick's latest op-ed. ] Last year's disengagement from Gaza took place two days after Tisha B'Av, and some pundits connected the two events, . . . more »

Judith | 08/03/06 at 01:07 AM | 5 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 19, 2006

Goodbye Palestinian state

Things that make you go hmmmmm: One of the implications of the current fighting is that a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is no longer strategically viable for Israel. Missiles with a 40 kilometer (24 mile) range can strike . . . more »

Judith | 07/19/06 at 05:12 PM | 10 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 17, 2006

The Altalena challenge

Hizbullah is Lebanon's Altalena, says Imshin. I have been thinking of the Altalena incident myself, way back in th summer of ‘48, as a viable example of a weak, fledgling, endangered regime, riddled with internal discord, setting out the rules . . . more »

Judith | 07/17/06 at 07:23 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 13, 2006

Captured Israelis May Be Enroute to Iran

Although Meepas (cited at Regime Change Iran) regarded it as unlikely, it's now being reported that Hezbollah may be attempting to move the captured Israeli soldiers from Beirut, Lebanon to Iran: Israeli foreign ministry officials said Thursday evening it has . . . more »

Asher Abrams | 07/13/06 at 01:50 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 03, 2006

Tuesday Morning Six AM

The Hamas terrorists who grabbed corporal Gilad Shalit, in an unprovoked act of war against Israel, present the Israeli Government with an ultimatum. Release your prisonsers by Tuesday morning, 6:00 AM. Or else. Though they don't actually clarify what will . . . more »

Alcibiades | 07/03/06 at 08:03 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 01, 2006

And the response to 1000 for 1 from Israel ...

if you don't return our soldier, we'll take out your Prime Minister. ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed. The unprecedented warning was delivered to . . . more »

Alcibiades | 07/01/06 at 04:34 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 30, 2006

1000 for 1

It has got to enrage the Palestinians deep inside that the Israeli government is willing to go so far, spur so much activity merely to recover just one of its soldiers. The kidnappers of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit issued a . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/30/06 at 08:37 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Mubarak, negotiating

You can tell how much Mubarak dislikes Hamas and their leadership by the fact that, at least according to reports in the Jerusalem Post, he's actually taking a moderate, useful stance in the ongoing negotation to diffuse the current Gaza . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/30/06 at 09:33 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 28, 2006

What Happens Next in Gaza?

Even with top Hamas lawmakers now in Israeli hands, it is impossible to predict whether the Palestinians will become pragmatic and agree to release Gilad Shalit, or whether this will incite them further and make them dig in their heels. . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/28/06 at 11:05 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Eliahu Asheri executed by the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza?

UPDATE: Asheri's execution has now been confirmed. Apparently he was shot, as early as Sunday, soon after he first went missing. Palestinian terrorists in Gaza claim to have fired a chemical tipped warhead into Israel. So far, that report . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/28/06 at 10:00 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Flyover Country

Israel Air Force performed a flyover above Assad's palace in Syria while Assad was at the site. The planes swooped low over the summer residence of Assad, on Syria's Mediteranean coast. Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas, lives in . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/28/06 at 04:35 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

An Army of Mohammeds

[ UPDATE from Judith: Isreallycool is also liveblogging the latest Israeli-Arab war. ] In response to the IDF incursion into Gaza named "Summer Rain", an army of computer hackers in Morocco have joined efforts to bring down 750 websites with . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/28/06 at 10:27 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Isn't That Special

We're a little late on this news, but speaking of Gaza: The infamous Rachel Corrie play finally has a home in NYC. A play about a young American student who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza will open . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/28/06 at 09:33 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 27, 2006

The Israel Air Force has just blown up two bridges in Gaza

[ Vital Perspective and Carl in Jerusalem are live-blogging. ] Carl:For those who have not been through this before, the surest sign that Israel is winning in Gaza will be if the UN Security Council convenes to try to stop . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/27/06 at 07:04 PM | 0 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 04, 2006

Some Good News for Israel and Other Things

It turns out that the confluence of events in recent months - from Europe to Gaza - is beginning to impact public opinion about the Palestinian situation in Europe. Palestinian support 'crashes' in Europe New public opinion surveys conducted among . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/04/06 at 03:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

May 31, 2006

The Politics of Boycotting

There is good news of a sort on the British teaching union, NATFHE's, boycott of Israel. The AUT, the union that passed the boycott last year, then decisively rescinded it in a much larger vote, sent out a press release . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/31/06 at 08:17 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

May 08, 2006

Le Plus Ca Change...

Le Plus C'est La Meme Chose Britain opens up its National wartime archives to disclose historical proof of the presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Palestinian leaders. Historical documents in Britain’s National Archives in London . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/08/06 at 06:04 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

May 07, 2006

Hamas Plotting to Kill Abbas?

The London Times is reporting that Israel foiled a Hamas plot to kill Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan in Gaza, by tipping him off ahead of time. A HAMAS plot to assassinate Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has been thwarted after . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/07/06 at 12:37 AM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

April 01, 2006

Clinton and the Art of the Lie

Clinton: I would be prepared to shake hands with Hamas As the United States on Friday ordered its representatives in Israel and throughout the world to cut off all contact with any members of the PA, Ex-President Clinton gives Hamas . . . more »

Alcibiades | 04/01/06 at 11:36 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 29, 2006

Bush: No US Aid for Hamas led PA

"I weep for the Palestinians' suffering," Bush said in a speech. "They've been ruled for years by a disappointing government, but we can't fund a nation that seeks to destroy its neighbor." Bush apparently isn't the only one. Earlier Wednesday, . . . more »

Alcibiades | 03/29/06 at 07:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 05, 2006

Brava Nonie Darwish

Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to honor. Nominated for best foreign-language film is "Paradise Now," a sympathetic portrayal of two suicide bombers. Nominated for best picture is "Munich," a sympathetic portrayal of yesterday's fashion . . . more »

Alcibiades | 03/05/06 at 03:05 PM | 4 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

March 04, 2006

The Beautiful Soul of Rachel Corrie

In the world of international theatre, the writers of Rachel Corrie, Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner are very upset that they cannot show American audiences the beauty of Rachel Corrie's soul. As James Nicola, the theatre's artistic director, said yesterday: . . . more »

Alcibiades | 03/04/06 at 09:33 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

February 13, 2006

'If I Speak In the Arab World, I Will Be Shot'

Nonie Darwish speaks here about her childhood indoctrination education in Gaza. And in the NYSun Ira Stoll interviews both Nonie Darwish and Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian journalist. Khaled Abu Toameh used to work for a Palestine Liberation Organization newspaper. Now . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/13/06 at 01:26 PM | 1 Comments | 4 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Not That Envelope Please

Protesting the academy: there's a petition to protest the nomination of Paradise Now - the European financed, pro Palestinian film glorifying suicide bombing: An anonymous on-line petition to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which so far has . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/13/06 at 12:30 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

'I Feel Ashamed to be an Anglican'

Melanie Phillips has a long post on the recent Anglican decision to "disinvest" from Israel that I recently mentioned here. Apparently, though he was voting for disinvestment, Rowan Williams did not "realize" he was voting for disinvestment. A position that . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/13/06 at 10:47 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

February 03, 2006

Blame it on the Women

Apparently women made up a massive block of swing voters for Hamas in the last election in the Palestinian territories, according to Ian Fisher for the NYTimes. Reem Abu Athra, who directs women's affairs in the Fatah youth wing, said . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/03/06 at 12:01 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

February 02, 2006

Hamas Again

I've been meaning to link to this one all day: The Guardian, unsurprisingly, granted Khalid Mashaal editorial space to explain Hamas' mission to the world and its current statement of purpose. Our message to the Muslim and Arab nations is . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/02/06 at 12:45 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 30, 2006

D.P. Camp Gaza, July 2006: News from the Near Future

Displaced Persons Camp Gaza, July 4, 2006: Initially, the victory of Hamas in Palestinian elections last January caused some nervousness among Palestinians. They heartily agreed with the plan to throw the Jews into the sea, but the other aspects of . . . more »

Van | 01/30/06 at 01:20 PM | 5 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 29, 2006

Hamas mind games

Roger Simon notes that a Hamas leader has offered a "truce" if Israel pulls back to the Green Line. This is a clever way for Hamas to recoup its recently tattered image and make Israel look bad. Hamas can appear . . . more »

Judith | 01/29/06 at 11:39 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 28, 2006

Good Morning Sharrrriiaaa

So, now that Hamas has swept to victory, looks like they are planning on using their mandate to impose sharia law on the Palestinian territories. A senior Hamas official told Canada's Globe and Mail on Friday that the new . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/28/06 at 09:17 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 27, 2006

Profiles in Terror

The BBC profiles Mahmoud Zahhar, leader of Hamas in Gaza, and one of its original founders along with Sheik Yassin and Abdel-Aziz Rantisi in 1987. He, himself, started his ideological "career" in the Gaza branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Both . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/27/06 at 12:21 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Uh, Yeah. That About Says It All

From Cox&Forkum Hamas, as it turns out, may be as bemused by their victory as some in the West: [A] Hamas leader in Nablus, a professor at An-Najah University who did not run, told the Post that many of . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/27/06 at 10:46 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 26, 2006

Hamastan Before Our Eyes

Ha'aretz provides a convenient Who's Who in Hamas for its top 5 leaders. Ehud Olmert tells the world that a Palestinian Authority led by Hamas is "not a partner" in peace. "If a government led by Hamas or in . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/26/06 at 04:46 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

Those Demned Exit Polls

So when I went to bed last night, Fatah had won the Palestinian election. True, their victory margin had narrowed the later at night it got, but what a shock to wake up and find Hamas has suddenly won . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/26/06 at 09:42 AM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

January 04, 2006

Gaza Again

Martin Peretz writing in The New Republic on Gaza: The withdrawal from Gaza by Israel was supposed to be a test. OK, not of everything but of something. Take your pick. That the hudna (ceasefire) would hold. It didn't. Islamic . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/04/06 at 10:44 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

September 06, 2005

Moussa Arafat assassinated; more mob rule

Well I'm back from Labor Day and finally ready to blog again. Moussa Arafat, Arafat's obnoxious cousin, a founder of Fatah, and one of Abbas' main opponents, was finally assassinated by a gang of armed Palestinians, "80 to 100 gunmen . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/06/05 at 08:02 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

April 27, 2004

From the horse's mouth

Lynn B attended a talk in Philadelphia, by a Palestinian journalist who now lives in Israel and works for the JPost. Everything you wanted to know about tyranny under Arafat, including suppression of real journalism, summary executions, celebrating 9-11, and . . . more »

Judith | 04/27/04 at 06:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

July 02, 2003

The forgotten victims

Head Heeb has links to stories in Ha'aretz about Israeli Arab victims of Palestinian suicide bombings:". . . Certain things keep going through my mind. The question that cuts through my heart is: How is it possible to come and . . . more »

Judith | 07/02/03 at 12:49 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

June 15, 2003

How to subdue terrorists

Many are saying that the Palestinians need their own Altalena. This obscure incident in the Israeli struggle for independence really points up the difference between the Palestinian and Israeli leadership, and is especially relevant to Abu Mazen's task today. (It . . . more »

Judith | 06/15/03 at 10:25 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine