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Ahmed & Salim (cartoon)

Posted in Hamas, Israel, Video on 5 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m trying to decide whether this is funny or not. I certainly chuckled, but I’m not sure it’s funny… if you know what I mean.

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Email from the Hamas

Posted in Hamas, Israel, War on 7 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I heard that lots of people had got SMS messages from the Hamas during the Gaza war, promising them that a rocket was going to fall on them and kill them. I was feeling a bit out of things that they hadn’t bothered sending me one, so I was relieved to find an email from [...]

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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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