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Who killed Dr Abuelaish’s daughters?

Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, War on 2 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »

If you have followed the war in Gaza in any way you probably heard the story of the three daughters of Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish who were killed in the bambardment. Dr Abuelaish just happens to be a doctor who lives in Gaza but works in the Israeli Tel HaShomer hospital. Not only that his expertise [...]

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Ceasefire aftermath – back to normal?

Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, War on 20 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So the war is over. Strange how they managed to finish it just in time for Obama’s swearing-in. Our troops are supposed to complete their pull-back today and leave Gaza to the Gazans to start sorting out the mess and put things back together.
The Hamas leaders and military who all ran away leaving the civilians [...]

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Why

Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, War on 20 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just to remember what this war was about.

Eight years of this was too much.

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Cease fire

Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, War on 18 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last night we called a unilateral cease fire and now Hamas have called theirs. We say our troops will pull out if the multilateral agreements are put in place and if they don’t shooting at us. Hamas say that they don’t agree to any agreements and that they give us a week to get out [...]

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More on morality of war and human shields

Posted in Ethics, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, War on 8 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I heard ex-high-court-judge Mishael Heshin speak this morning on the radio about the morality of war. He suggested that war is pathological and inherently immoral – “you get up in the morning, brush your teeth, have a cup of coffe and go out to kill people”. He said that this is countered [...]

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Human shields

Posted in Ethics, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, War on 7 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t yet seen confirmation from AP that there were Hamas fighters in the school in Gaza, this is what they reported:
“Two neighbourhood residents confirmed the Israeli account, saying a group of militants fired mortars from a street near the school, then fled into a crowd of people in the streets. Israel then opened [...]

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More on the distance from Gaza

Posted in Beit Shemesh, Gaza, Israel, War on 1 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Rafi G (not me) blogged just now about our distance from Gaza. Still 50km but there is now a new map that he shows with concentric rings out to 70km  which reaches Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The Pikud HaOref (Home Command) site has not changed it’s instructions. However Tel Aviv Municipality started checking out its public [...]

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50km From Gaza

Posted in Beit Shemesh, Gaza, Israel, War on 31 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In case anybody is interested, Beit Shemesh is 50km from Beit Lahiya, which puts it out of range from Hamas missiles. Beer Sheva which was hit yesterday is 40km from Gaza City. 40km in our direction is about Amazia, Shekef and Lachish just before Beit Guvrin.
That said, we have close family in Beer Sheva and [...]

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