Facts On The Ground

Brogue State

W Dean — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:23:51 +0000

Compare: An Iraqi reporter acclaimed as a hero across much of the Middle East after he threw his shoes at President Bush was sentenced in Baghdad to three years in prison yesterday. And contrast:...

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Pasta of Mass Destruction

W Dean — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:35:27 +0000

Israel is not making enough effort to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Currently fewer than two hundred trucks daily are entering Gaza, double how many it was allowing a month ago, but...

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BDS in the USA

W Dean — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:23:26 +0000

Students at Hampshire College explain why they have become the first college in the US to divest from Israel’s occupation: Hampshire was the first American College to divest from South Africa back in...

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Coming soon to a Knesset near you

W Dean — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:40:47 +0000

Tzipi Livni’s Kadima Party received the most overall votes in Israel’s February 10 elections, but the real winner may have been Avigdor Lieberman’s far-right Yisrael Beiteinu...

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Guess who’s been hiding weapons in holy places?

W Dean — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:49:20 +0000

Guess who’s been hiding weapons in holy places? Weapons from Israel’s pre-independence era were discovered Thursday in a large synagogue in Hod Hasharon, in central Israel. The location, which...

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Guess who’s been using human shields?

W Dean — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:24:51 +0000

Guess who’s been using human shields in Gaza? EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — The Israeli soldiers outside Majdi Abed Rabbo’s home were after the three Hamas fighters holed up next door,...

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A shoe, a book and a pen too

W Dean — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:07:10 +0000

Apparently, throwing shoes is a mark of disrespect in Swedish culture. A shoe was thrown at Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Mr. Benny Dagan, when he was giving a speech at Stockholm University on...

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“They want us to live as orphans”

W Dean — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:51:43 +0000

The girl in the clip is the 10 year old Mona Samouni, one of the few survivors of the Zeitoun Massacre in Gaza. More than 30 members of her family, including her parents, were murdered when the...

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Israeli Settlements Expand

W Dean — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:53:17 +0000

The US, the EU, the Arab League, Fatah and even Hamas have accepted in principle the two state solution to the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine. In a nutshell, this would involve Israel moving...

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Arabs need 2 die

W Dean — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:04:25 +0000

The IDF is the most moral army in the world, it does not and never has made a policy of targeting civilians. I saw the above Steve Bell cartoon in The Guardian the other day and remember thinking...

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