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Two small ships have set off for Gaza, attempting to challenge the Israeli Navy blockade. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1014413.html The wooden boats are due to arrive in Israeli territorial waters over the next 24 hours. Should Israel just ignore them and let the ships reach Gaza...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/884353.html Hundreds Released from Israeli Custody Today Also, many palestinian militants have been given amnesty, and they have surrendered their weapons. What does this mean for the palestinians? ----- Israel is prepared for very serious concessions...

Article Israel has just approved new settlement construction in the West Bank, the first in almost a decade. ALthough Israel has protested that this doesn't constitute a breach of its promise ot the US not to engage in new construction (as opposed to the expansion of old construction), I think...

Of course, they suspected that Palestinian insurgents had hidden themselves in the crowd, so I imagine they think they were justified. What I wonder about is how a 12 year old girl looks like a bearded insurgent through a rifle scope? Palestinian girl, 12, killed by Israeli sniper fire...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/778767.html I often hear it is just a matter of keeping the law, if Palestinians just did that, all would be ok, and they are to be condemned for not doing so. It appear Isreal is no better at keeping the law.

Two items came together in the news: France declared that its' forces in Lebanon (as part of the UNSCR 1701 UNIFIL reinforcements) will "shoot down" any IAF overflights. Italy, for its' part, has decided to provide ASTER-15 SAMs to enable that threat to be realized. Israeli Air Force pilots...

I wonder if he was framed? That seems to be the usual excuse. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/753547.html

Photos here.

A brilliantly cogent article:

Im not learning much from the news in this regard. I keep hearing that infantry is tangling with infantry in a somewhat conventional war in a lot of the hotspots and that grunt to grunt, hezzbollah is cleaning the isaraeli grunt's clock every time From the bits of footage they do show, over and...

In the press conference with Pres. Bush this morning in advance of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg Russia, German Chancellor Angela Merkel identified the root cause of the Israeli conflict. Apparently it is Hamas and Hezzbolah comitting terrorist acts. Whoda thunk it?

Palestinian militants have taken an IDF soldier hostage, demanding hundreds of Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for the one IDF soldier. Hmm.

AP is reporting that the IDF armored force has started maneuvering for operations into Gaza. (It is now 00:40, June 28th local time) IAF jets are bombarding bridges and other strategic points. A car was destroyed in a massive explosion, and a leading HAMAS operative, Hamza Muhareb, was killed...

A conversation I've had with someone recently touched upon Loose Change and current US activities in the Middle East. I attempted to point people to various pages that discount Loose Change as a legitimate source for information concerning the events of 9/11 but during the conversation it was...

Very cool. Eight new species were discovered in this cave, all of them without eyes.

Hamas prime misister has Israeli sisters (This is the actual typo in the headline -- I love it) By JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) The Palestinian Authority’s Hamas prime minister has three sisters in Israel, it was reported earlier this week. According to Yediot Achronot on Monday, three of...

I want to start this thread to see some discussion of the election. Not just opinions, election issues and results, but also people's voting experiences etc. Any takers?

It`s getting worse and worse. The Israeli terrorist state is getting more and more brazen as they see how the Europeans and North Americans do nothing about their murderous policies. The Israeli government has been sponsoring state terrorism since its creation. It has never fullfilled its...

A terrorist attack commited by an Israeli extremist. More are probally to occure. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123208392753

Soldiers Expel Jewish Militants From Gaza By GAVIN RABINOWITZ Associated Press Writer PALM BEACH HOTEL, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli forces stormed a Gaza Strip hotel Thursday where dozens of Jewish squatters were holed up to disrupt this summer's Israeli withdrawal, in a quick operation that...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/international/middleeast/24cnd-sharon.html Interesting. How come they can't improve the atmosphere ofr talks by insisting Abbas do more to stem terror? If they waited until after the talks to release prisoners and cede security of Palestinian-Arab cities...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041026/wl_nm/mideast_dc Well, let's see how it goes.

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Very interesting interview with Nathan Sharansky, israel's minister of diaspora affairs: First part of the interview Second part Especially interesting is Sharansky's take, after a 20-campus tour of the USA, of academic and liberal antisemitism in the guise of "anti-zionism" or equally...

Does the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation intend to financially support research towards the establishment of Israeli settlements on the moon? Would that be a contribution to world peace and the private sector development of space travel? How many class M planets are there around this part of...

I decided to introduce this thread in the light of some of the disparaging attitudes expressed about the Palestinians and DanishDynamite`s recent thread concerning possible solutions to the Israel/Palestine conflict which seemed to me to miss some very basic and important issues, issues...

In this thread, http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=1870210764 "Loony Sunni's Attack Well Armed Convoy...Then Complain of Harsh Response" Skeptic said, My response was, (edited for references in other thread) Skeptic's response: I don't think the parallel fits as...

http://msnbc.com/news/994931.asp?0cl=c3 There appears to be a revolt brewing in the IDF. Pilots, Generals and troops on the ground are all questioning the ethics of the brutality they are inflicting on Palestinians. It is being done in the name of the religious zealots who want all of the...

He appears to agree with me. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/30/1067233319979.html The "no negotiations or easing of restrictions" policy is just a dead end. You can argue about moral correctness all you want, and how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin. You still have to...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/25/1064083090349. html Israelis deciding that terror won't win peace.