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Give Ghaza to Egypt?

( Egypt and Israel and Linkity love )

Drima thinks he found the solution to the current crisis, which is to give Ghaza to Egypt, West Bank to Jordan, and call it a day. I am sad to say that Drima is more confused than a blind man in an orgy if he thinks such a solution should even be put on the table. And [...]

Get Your War On!

Today is a fantastic day, ladies and gentlemen. Today is the day Israel decided to finally prove that it already forgot everything it had learned from the Lebanon War, and repeat its mistakes, with fantastic percision and exactness I might add. Today, Israel went into Ghaza with ground forces, proving yet once again that the people running the IDF are  [...]

Ghaza…again..

Bloodshed in Ghaza…again. Rockets launched from both sides….again. Round 69474932 of the grandsons of Isaac vs. the grandsons of Ishmael…again. And again, no end in sight..again and again and again.
Welcome to Middle-east people, where we make excellent rugs and most fantastic death, all for political gain. Hamas wanted to be relevant again, wanted the arab [...]

Bibi for PM, again?

( Israel )

Are Israelis really suffering from collective amnesia? Is the country that small that you don't have any new politicians to elad you? Or are you all just going through a collective 90's flashback, with Bibi vs. Barak, yet again? Whatever happend to "the smartest people on earth"? I mean, I am rooting for Livni simply [...]

Is it worth it?

( Israel and Lebanon )

Too many people are jovial about the return of Samir Al Kuntar, with even Nasrallah informing him that the 2006 war was for him. The question I would like to pose here, regardless of whether or not Kuntar is a child killer , is it worth it? Oh, and look at the below [...]

Historical Egyptian Ingenuity moments #1

( A.P.U. and Egypt and Israel )

Setting: The Barlif Wall, Sinai, Israeli Checkpoint # whatever

Date: 6th of October, 1973
Time: Around 2:15 PM
Narrator: An Israeli Officer , on his walkie talkie, to a fellow officer on the front. 
" Levi, Levi, check it out, the Egyptians are trying to attack us. Oh, no, I am not kidding. For real. They have troops on [...]

Hitchens ponders Israel

( Israel )

That's what he is doing here is called: Pondering..

I find that no other question so much reminds me of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his aphorism about the necessity of living with flat-out contradiction.
Do I sometimes wish that Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann had never
persuaded either the Jews or the gentiles to create a quasi-utopian
farmer-and-worker state [...]

Carter’s statement is bullshit

The biggest piece of news in AP right now is that Carter managed to get a concession from Hamas regarding co-existence with Israel:

Carter relayed the message in a speech in Jerusalem after meeting last week with top Hamas leaders in Syria.
It capped a nine-day visit to the Mideast aimed at breaking the
deadlock between Israel and [...]

Shadowgames

On the History of Palestinian collaborators with Zionists:

In his groundbreaking book Army of Shadows, Hillel Cohen,
a research fellow at Hebrew University's Truman Institute for the
Advancement of Peace, exposes this particularly nefarious side of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Cohen has spent years in numerous Israeli
and British archives gathering information that many would pre­fer
to forget, and in Army of [...]

The view in Israel

( Israel )

 I have been watching the Israeli media ever since the seminary school attacks, and damn are things tense. Lieberman of course is using the issue to push for his usual agenda of "kick the arab MK's out", the media is obsessing about the fact that the gunman had Hamas flags hanging outside of his [...]

Freud was against Israel?

( Israel )

An old letter of his implies that..

In February 1930 Freud was asked, as a distinguished
Jew, to contribute to a petition condemning Arab riots of 1929, in which
over a hundred Jewish settlers were killed.  This was his reply:
Letter to the Keren Hajessod (Dr. Chaim Koffler)
Vienna: 26 February 1930
Dear Sir,
I cannot do as you wish. I am [...]

Consequences & Opprutunities

( Egypt and Israel )

Consequences of the border breach… 

According to Hamas' announcement last night, the two
terrorists responsible for yesterday morning's attack in Dimona set out
from Hebron. At the same time, the original and reasonable assumption
that the bombers had moved from Gaza, via Sinai, to the Negev was based
on the profusion of intelligence warnings that had multiplied following
the breach of [...]

Gaza lessons and facts

( Egypt and Israel and Media and Middle East and Mubarak and Palestinians )

Rules of modern Invasion: In order to effectively invade a country (what do you call the blowing up of borders and the forced entry of hundreds of thousands of foreigners if not an invasion), what you need to do is put the women and children in the front. This way, the people on the border [...]

Well, they are truely our cousins now

( Israel and causes )

Freedom of speech- after getting defended in Egypt- is getting attacked in Israel. There is a bill in the Israeli Knesset that wants to hold websites accountable for their talkback content (i.e. comments people leave on them). Oh..and :

According to the bill, which was drafted by MK
Israel Hasson (Israel Beiteinu) web sites could be [...]

The most ridiculous shit I’ve heard this year..

…has to be from this "award winning" report- from Hebrew University - on why Israeli army men do not rape Palestinian women: it's because they view palestinian women to be too subhuman to rape.

The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Tal
Nitzan, notes that the paper shows that "the lack of organized military
rape is [...]

Rice is retarded

She tries to do an off the cuff speech on the Palestinian Israeli conflict, tries to make a comparison between Black segregation history and israelis and palestinians, and ends up, in her attempts to make everyone happy, completely offending both sides.

Meanwhile, Rice, speaking after Livni, reflected on
her childhood in the segregated South and said [...]

Marry an Israeli man, lose your egyptian nationality

( Egypt and Israel and WTF? and Women )

Mofeed Shehab, the government's minister for legal and administrative affairs, has just clarified an important legal issue when it comes to Egyptian women: If they are married to an Israeli, and they have kids, the kids do not get the egyptian nationality, unlike their counterparts with Fathers from other countries. Why? Well, because, apparently, [...]

A Hamas Media Fun Park and Israeli genius

From the same people who brought you the Hamas Boyband, we present you with the Hamas Media City and amusement park. for reals:

If you believe the building plans, "Media City" will be a Disneyland
fused with Hollywood and the CNN Centre on the shores of the
Mediterranean.
There's only one catch: it's in the Gaza Strip.
[...]
And [...]

Does the Israeli media want war with Egypt?

( Egypt and Israel and Media and Middle East )

I thought this was an anamoly, but it seems that it is part of a much wider campaign. Which begs the question: Does Israel really want to start a war with Egypt, or are they just using us as a diversion and a place for Israelis to focus their anger on? Cause I [...]

Irony??

Olmert reportedly has cancer in the Asshole . Just saying!