Preparations for summer vacation Our summer vacation is coming up quickly, and on Saturday I spent a bit of time making bookings. Things are looking good. We’ll be flying from Amman to Mumbai, then from Mumbai to Chennai. Thereafter we’ll be in Tiruvannamalai and Auroville. The second part of the trip, from Auroville to Mysore …
Bibi + Obama: I switched channels at the point when they began to talk one more time about America’s special relationship with Israel. I don’t know exactly whether it was irritation or nausea. ——————— In some recent correspondence I quoted a figure for the number of Palestinians in Israeli jails. The most recent reporting had …
The Mavi Marmara dead: Cengiz Akyüz 41 Iskandarun, Turkey , married with three children Ali Haydar Bengi 39 Diyarbakir, Turkey, married with four children Ibrahim Bilgen 61 Siirt, Turkey married with six children Furkan Dogan 19 Turkish American. Shot execution style five times in the head at close range Cevdet Kiliçlar 38 Journalist from Kayseri …
Despite the sensational title, the Haaretz article “Probe: Erdogan knew Gaza flotilla would be violent” unlike earlier pieces in the Israeli media that seemed to be more motivated by hasbara than truthful reporting, seems to be moving in a direction that actually makes sense. “In a report published this week, a group of independent investigators …
There is no doubt after the Flotilla attack of the degree to which Israel is growing, from one misstep to another, ever more insular. Its people are out of step with the world, and are incapable of understanding, except in terms of antisemitism or pro-Palestinian sentiment, why they and their country are under so much …
Israeli news media are carrying this “revelation” by the IDF about links by flotilla activists to Hamas and al Qaida. Israel’s Channel 10 news made it sound particularly scary. Yaacov Elon said it was too bad that this intelligence wasn’t available to the army in advance. But the gap between the headline and the sparse …
Israeli Navy to storm aid “Freedom Flotilla” ships (Palestinian Telegraph) http://bit.ly/8XWLdL
10 Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill http://bit.ly/bh3Yor
“Boycott Israel” http://bit.ly/bRXY5F : a special site for Israelis only, where you can sign a petition & consider the consequences later.
Even when Facebook has something nice to say, they manage to make it sound ominous. (“Making Control Simple”: http://goo.gl/YI9z )