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The HAMAS organization in Gaza has declared they are launching a Coastal Force (Navy) ------ despite the fact they have no ships yet. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1341797.php/New_Hamas_navy_to_start_work_soon_spokesman_says__Roundup_ Also, in the next few days, a...

Link Someone needs to explain to them that being a human shield only works when you're defending against people who care about whether they shoot you or not.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/736637.html Within four years, the Megiddo prison is expected to be moved from its present site to another location, to allow for the development of a major tourist attraction for Christian pilgrims, who will flock to see a 'holy' archaeological discovery on...

Every time I open Google News it seems I get a fresh news story that suggests Palestinians are going to be fighting really soon. Here is the latest: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1871447,00.html

so whats the catch? I've heard this many times but it has always ended up a hollow statement because there was always something that meant that it was a great Idea but just not right now..... so whats the catch? why not form the state of palestine right now...today? My thoughts are the basics...

Palestinian Television carried a live noon sermon on Friday during which Sheikh Ibrahim Mudairis called Jews a "spreading cancer" and repeated the canard that Jews exaggerated the actual numbers killed by the Nazis during the World War II Nazi Holocaust. The Sheik, speaking in a Gaza Mosque in...

Do I have this right...? Israel constructs a wall that separates land owners from their land, then claims the land based on an old "absentee" law? article

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143844,00.html I don't blame Arafat for all that has gone wrong in this ongoing conflict, but he certainly didn't seem to have the ability to give any clear indication of what should be happening, or how it could happen, and he didn't seem to have any...

Well I waited a week and a half to see if the usual Sharon-is-the cause-of-everything crowd would be as even-handed and forthcoming with their savvy political insights regarding the Middle East, specifically the case of the civil war now raging in Gaza and the West Bank. Yet, not a peep was...

Source (Also available at the Washington Post, but they require registration nowadays...) MattJ

So, it's all been decided, not that anyone would notice. Maybe Bush decided that, compared to everything else, this issue really just doesn't figure in the scheme of things anymore, and he really couldn't care less. Basically, Sharon gets what he wants, and George and will agree with it. He...

From the article: and also... Since there appears to be no powerful control over Palestine, will it irrupt into a Civil War for control?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&u=/nm/20031202/od_nm/mideast_baby_dc_2&printer=1 I found the following especially funny:

Palestinian, intellectual, and fighter, Edward Said rails against Arafat and Sharon to his dying breath Robert Fisk, The Independent, 25 September 2003 For the full article see here

If a Palestinian state is created and plants itself right next to Israel, will there be peace? How would it foster peace? The people killing the Jews will still be the same people running the new Palestinian state. Will those people lose interest in killing Jews just because Israel lets them...