I spend waaaaay too much time in front of keyboards and screens. Here's an open thread to prevent burnout... For discussion: "Simpl...

A Palestinian boy shows his skills as a horse rider in front of a Ferris Wheel at the Al-Bashir amusement park on the outskirts of Gaza Cit...

From AFP: GAZA CITY — High above the pot-holed streets, donkey carts and militant graffiti that have come to define the besieged Gaza Strip ...

Arab humorists in the territories are starting to make fun of the division between Gaza and the West Bank, both in cartoons and on TV. A po...

Eton College, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in England, offers something called the "Horizon Foundation" schol...

In two separate but virtually identical paragraphs, the Goldstone Commission report says: 1582. Insofar that movement and access restriction...

The Goldstone report talks about the bombing of the al-Maqadmah mosque on January 3rd: 820. The al-Maqadmah mosque is situated near the nort...

While we have already looked at some of Goldstone's inaccuracies concerning the civilian status of Gaza police, the report makes more ...

There is an online game called Monopoly City Streets where people apparently claim and trade streets worldwide. One interesting part of the...

I wish my readers a Shana Tova U'Metuka, a happy and sweet new year! I will be offline until Sunday night for Rosh Hashanah. K'tiva ...

From JPost: An Israeli satirical video posted on the Internet became a hit in the very countries it criticizes. The video was produced and p...

The last 500 hits on my blog included these entries from people typing in these phrases in search engines: 54 31.95% shana tova...

Today is the last Friday of Ramadan, a day declared by the late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran to be "Qods Day," where a city that Isl...

723. The Mission considers, however, that the testimonies of the witnesses strongly suggest that already before daybreak on 4 January 2009 t...

From Ma'an: Head of Ishraqa, a Gazan charitable society, Wasfi Naser, urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam...