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Monday, December 24, 2007

Fatah's war against Bethlehem pilgrims, 1967

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An interesting tidbit in a Time magazine article about Israel and the "occupation" in December 1967: ...Incidents of terrorism s...

"Collaborators"

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From Marty Peretz at TNR : I've just finished a truly intriguing book. It is called Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zio...

The end of the Christian community in Gaza

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From AP : Gaza's tiny Christian community is keeping a low profile during Christmas this year, traumatized by the killing of a prominent...

HH CXLVI

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The latest, and slightly late, edition of Haveil Havalim is now up at Soccer Dad . This 146th edition includes two of my postings, Rocking ...

Egyptian columnist explains rationale for PalArab "right of return"

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While perusing the Al-Ahram al-Arabi magazine (see previous post ), I came upon this article written by Abdulrazzaq Aldahish ( autotranslate...

Ripping off the Elder?

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On Saturday night, I did what I often do - I looked through the auto-translated Arabic press to see if there was anything interesting to blo...

David Raab's Salt Shaker (Barbara Sofer)

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From JPost: You never know when you'll need a salt shaker, David Raab thought as he slipped into his pocket the little dispenser that c...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Adventures in Arabic auto-translation: "Resistance Missiles"

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The Palestine Today Arabic webpage has a story about how Israel is putting 100 million shekels to protect hospitals from " resistance m...

Number 600

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Finally, after a week of anticipation, the 600th Palestinian Arab to die from internal violence in 2007 (by my count) has been identified. ...

The Israel lobby and Western shared values

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Egypt's Al Ahram recently published an op-ed, republished in Al-Arabiya, about the challenges the Arab world has in trying to come up w...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Former aide admits Arafat founded Black September

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Ma'an (Arabic) reports that a series of articles being authored by longtime Arafat aide Marwan Kanafani in Egypt's Al Ahram will sa...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Eric Alterman - another liberal who doesn't get it

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In the most recent issue of The Nation, as well as the International Herald Tribune, Eric Alterman laments the fact that while Jews are ove...

PETA silent on slaughter of millions this week

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I have no problem with eating meat, but I do have a problem with hypocrisy. PETA , which goes out of its way to find offense when people hur...

Arab News agrees that terrorists are "martyrs"

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The Saudi-based Arab News is as moderate a voice as exists in that Islamic country. It has been very critical of the sharia-law excesses in...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Rocking the Casbah

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From JTA: An Israeli army rabbi is under investigation for putting a mezuzah up in an off-limits area of Hebron. The rabbi of the military&#...