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Anyone who wants to understand what has (or has not) happened at Annapolis will find the answer in this fact: the dogs did not bark. The settlers and their friends were keeping quiet, did not panic, did not get excited, did not distribute posters of Olmert in SS uniform (as they had done with Rabin after Oslo). All in all, they contented themselves with the obligatory prayer at the Western Wall and a smallish demonstration near the Prime Minister’s residence. This means that they were not worried. They knew that nothing would come out of it, that there would be no agreement on the dismantling of even one measly settlement outpost. Continue reading →

The thugs of Palestine aka the Fateh Movement were in full flight yesterday, opening fire on the very people they are supposed to represent. The Fateh Movement are really the Palestinian Zionist Movement, an organisation will the sole aim of fulfilling Israeli and US interests in the region. “Click for more pictures and videos Continue reading →

The Three Stooges at Annapolis

One gets the sense that Palestinians will not allow anyone to put anything over on them — not their own establishment or Israel or the U.S. No Palestinian victory is on the horizon, by any means, but this spirit of resistance may prevent the establishment at Annapolis from surrendering basic rights. Continue reading →

“You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides,” another soldier said.

“As though from the moment you leave the place that is called Eretz Yisrael [Israel] and go through the Erez checkpoint into the Gaza Strip, you are the law. You are God.”

With such pleasure in power, soldiers said, nothing was prohibited.

One soldier described an incident when a Palestinian passer-by was shot for no fault of his.

“We were in a weapons carrier when this guy, around 25, passed by in the street and, just like that, for no reason – he didn’t throw a stone, did nothing – bang, a bullet in the stomach, he shot him in the stomach and the guy is dying on the pavement and we keep going, apathetic,” he recalled.

And this comment from a reader: “Arabs are so stupid they believe God speaks Arab and that it is God’s command that a man beats his wife with a toothbrush if she is disobedient etc. All because some holy man 1400 years ago claimed to be speaking on behalf of God. In fact it is God’s will that the Jews and the Christians punish Muslims for this kind of stupidity. That is why he has made Western and Jewish culture superior to the Islamic world so you can live in constant humiliation.”
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