There’s a little bit of fear-mongering going on right now by some parties that want Israel to release Fatah prisoners to make Mahmoud Abbas look good. The IDF, for example, has expressed to the...
Tag - Hamas
Gilad Shalit’s Ugly Hamas Shirt…
…is a fucking fashion sensation in Gaza That’s right. Available in four colors, including the classic black worn by Shalit, the shirts are flying off the shelf in Gaza. Selling at 50...
Gilad Shalit is Coming Home: The Joy and the Agony
1024 Palestinian detainees are set to be released in the near future and Gilad Shalit is coming home in a deal brokered between Israel, Hamas and Egypt. Last night in Jerusalem, at the site of the...
Flotilla victory?
Amid this conclusion, the pessimist in me cannot help but ask if the flotilla organizers and their well-funded backers lost a pawn in exchange for a rook, if they took a step back while preparing to...
Pro-Palestinian Flotilla Activist: Why I am not sailing aboard the Dutch ship after all
Hasna El Maroudi, 26, Dutch pro-Palestinian activist/journalist of Moroccan descent, had planned to join other activists aboard a Dutch ship to Gaza. She changed her mind after having to deal with...
The Color Usurple – Alice Walker Weaves a False Tale
Alice Walker, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and author of “The Color Purple,” was reached by Foreign Policy magazine from her hotel in Greece, as she prepares to board a flotilla (or...
What happens next in the Middle East? Dr. Walid Phares speaks
Interview with Middle East expert Dr. Walid Phares by David Bratslavsky I was recently in Washington D.C. and had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Walid Phares. He is an American scholar born in...
Richard Goldstone Reconsiders the Goldstone Report
Shocker! Well, no. Not really. Almost a year ago I stated in a comment that “based on some of his comments thus far, I don’t believe we’ve heard Goldstone’s final word on the...