In local news, yesterday, the Palestinian soccer team held its first home game, a friendly match against Jordan. Until now, home games have been played in Jordan or elsewhere, but now they have a stadium...people who openly say their goal is the destruction of the single Jewish State, could it? After all, those Europeans have never been known for antisemitism, have they? Oh, yeah, right. Never mind..

OH NOES!!!!!1 He doesn't have unquestioning loyalty to Israel ! He has to be stopped! You know, it's okay if he's neutral. It's okay with me, anyway. Both Israel and Palestine deserve to have their own respective lands. I don't agree with the fact that Iran is hell-bent on destroying Israel, although I can understand that Tehran's stance is due to many of the human rights abuses against Arabs for...

...of years across the globe to countries that weren't always receptive to their practices. In actuality, the Israelites always found the land on which Israel was created to be their motherland Palestine is NOT the correct term for the Arab people near Israel (think of how Americans call Inuits Eskimos; that's not a real people); the term was created by the Roman empire and it sort of stuck even...

Tzipi has officially said she can't build another coalition. That means elections here in February or March. The real interesting one, though, is January. The Palestinian Authority rules say the President's...global financial crisis, and Europe's typical ineptitude and one thing is certain: Shrub's Annapolis meeting is proven to be the useless gesture most intelligent people knew it was when it happened

...the tale of my travels, last weekend I was back in England again - this time to help with a training weekend for a group from Fellowship of Reconciliation who are going on a delegation to Palestine and Israel along with some folks from Interfaith Peace Builders in the US next month. This is the remaining members of the group that was going to go out at Easter - that I was going to go...

A busy posting day... B'Tselem, an Israeli group that's an apologia for terror, provides a constant stream of stories claiming the settlers and IDF are attacking Palestinians for no reason except hate... How much of that gets coverage? How much of that gets acknowledged by B'Tselem? Slim and none. The settlers who go violent must be stopped. But so too must the constant attacks on Jews and Israel

A Repackaged Rationale for Dual Control of the Middle East Israel, the US and the New Orientalism By M. SHAHID ALAM T he West has never had an easy time coming to terms with Islam or Islamicate... When Europe gained the upper hand militarily in the nineteenth century, this complex of Orientalist ideas would be used to justify the conquest and colonization of Islamic lands. full article here

...the possibilities for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In particular, I assumed (in 1990) that the end of the Cold War would inevitably lead to such a peace, because absent the Soviet Union, Palestine had lost its Great Power support and Israel still had American backing. What happened since then? George H. W. Bush failed to stand by the Israelis, and Clinton (*) and the Europeans sucked...

...time attacking McCain. This could hurt his chances winning over Palin. The reason I stopped watching though is not because they bored me (which they did greatly), but because they got into the Israel-Palestine conflict and have addressed it like any other American politician has done in the past, and hence hit a very sensitive nerve in me. Praise, praise, praise for Israel! Palin and Biden basically...

Shanah Tovah and Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate Rosh Ha'Shana and Eid al-Fitr on my f-list and the lurkers around. A good Tuesday to the rest of you, make it a good one, it is a New Moon after...right? Tomorrow is my Nephew's fourth birthday. There will be a party Expect a more optimistic and happy entry at some point. Once again Have a Good New Year, a Happy Eid and a Successful Tuesday