Bookworm on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel
We now know that the Gazans instant collapse into existential despair the last time Israel reduced their electricity flow was a carefully choreographed dance that served two purposes: it enabled Hamas to knock down the wall Egypt had built (a wall about which no one in the West ever complained) and it gave photo [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Children, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
A few months ago, I took umbrage at a BBC news story that reported that Israel killed Palestinian children and only saw fit to mention, in the 5th and 6th paragraphs, that the children were fiddling around rocket launchers when Israel fired its missiles. I felt that the news was being reported to demonize [...]
Bookworm on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Syria
I respect Condi Rice for the most part, but have thought her naive for believing (or, at least, appearing to believe) that the Palestinians want peace with Israel, as opposed to Israel in pieces. David Brooks, however, thinks that there is a method to her madness, and that Iran’s follies may result in a back [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2007 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
A Palestinian human rights group is complaining about major abuses against Palestinian civilians. The malfeasors stand accused of
“extra-judicial and willful killings and shooting at combatants and civilians after capturing them;”
seizing people “in their homes” and dumping their bodies “in remote areas;”
executing “wounded persons during their evacuation to hospitals;”
pushing people “to their deaths from tall [...]
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