Home
RSS
Pro-Palestinian peace activist, 36-year-old Vittorio Arrigoni, went to Gaza in 2008 as a fierce critic of Israel and defender of Palestine. There as a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), he spent his time advocating for the...
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
13
Star It 
(2)
They make it so hard for Hamas to kill them. Who would have thought that the science-fiction Iron Dome system would be able to knock Qassams, Katyushas and Grad...
made popular Apr 18 2011
When I first saw this article, I thought it was an April Fool’s Day joke, but apparently, I was wrong. Although I think his admission is too little, too late, it’s...
made popular Apr 4 2011
As Egypt’s unrest continues, in neighbouring Gaza, an online manifesto for change has struck a chord with the young population.
made popular Feb 10 2011
GAZA, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Israel has been preparing the ground for a new military operation in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said Thursday, following...
made popular Dec 23 2010
A rocket fired from Gaza fell close to a kindergarten in an Israeli village on Tuesday morning. Earlier, the Israeli Air Force struck several targets in Gaza in...
made popular Dec 22 2010
This is a story you can bet your life won’t make the mainstream media because it portrays Hamas and the situation in Gaza exactly like it is—and in direct...
made popular Dec 13 2010
Firing comes amid growing violence in Gaza, as Israeli forces assassinated 2 Army of Islam Gaza militant leaders in two separate occasions in recent weeks.
made popular Nov 19 2010
Palestinian Authority security forces arrested several members of Hamas’s armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, who were planning to carry out a suicide bombing in Jerusalem,...
made popular Nov 18 2010
Is this a criticism too far?
A Canadian pro-Palestinian group has come under criticism for running an ad campaign comparing Israeli occupation of the Palestinians to...
made popular Nov 15 2010
The Israel Navy is planning to take control Tuesday of a Gaza-bound aid boat organized by Jewish activists from Israel and abroad.
The military has been closely...
made popular Sep 28 2010
Hamas said it had arrested “many” Palestinians in Gaza on suspicion of collaborating with Israel to kill senior members of the enclave’s Islamist...
made popular Sep 24 2010
Israel has allowed about 20 cars into Gaza, in the first such shipment since the militant Hamas movement took over the Strip in 2007.
No cars have been legally...
made popular Sep 22 2010
New Palestinian violence could erupt if peace talks collapse after this weekend’s expiration of an Israeli settlement slowdown, the Israeli military chief warned...
made popular Sep 22 2010
Police confirm that two mortar shells fired Wednesday into Eshkol Regional Council were phosphorus bombs, say not the first time; southern Israel residents face rocket,...
made popular Sep 16 2010
sami,
The Palestinian economy grew by a resounding 9% in the West Bank and 16% in Gaza through the first half of 2010, due to the easing of Israeli restrictions, donor aid...
made popular Sep 14 2010
Tough-looking ambulance drivers in this central Gazan city are drawing images of their fears with crayons. In the northwestern village of El Atatra, in an overheated...
made popular Sep 8 2010
Israeli aircraft have carried out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another.
Palestinian officials said at least one other person was...
made popular Sep 6 2010
The lowly desperate candidate.
Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak is desperate to install his son - Gamal Mubarack - as his successor. So much so that he has been...
made popular Aug 23 2010
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
We left our killing of witches back in the late 1600s, with the Salem Witch Trials the most infamous of all. But there are certain countries in the Middle East which...
made popular Aug 19 2010
Hamas, PFLP, DFLP, Islamic Jihad, et al have made their declaration, echoing the Khartoum Accord of 1967: “NO recognition of Israel, NO negotiations with Israel, NO...
made popular Aug 17 2010
A group of Israeli women smuggled 12 Palestinian woman and four children, among them a year-old baby, into Tel Aviv for a day of fun about two weeks ago. The women,...
made popular Aug 10 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told an inquiry into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla that Turkey had ignored warnings and appeals...
made popular Aug 9 2010
From his ramshackle Gaza home, Palestinian Sobhi Hamami, 61, fondly recalls the 23 years he worked on an Israeli kibbutz, where he learned Hebrew, swam in the pool with...
made popular Aug 6 2010
An American Gaza flotilla reflects the growing pro-Palestinian movement in the United States.
American supporters of Palestinians still have a long way to go in...
made popular Aug 3 2010
The 1.5million Palestinians of Gaza have become the victims of an immoral and illegal Israeli and Egyptian blockade. Collective punishment meant to topple the Hamas...
made popular Aug 5 2010
Five rockets landed near Eilat Monday morning, one of which injured four people in nearby Jordan, in front of the Intercontinental Hotel. One of the casualties was in...
made popular Aug 2 2010
I guess this is why someone burned down the UNWRA summer camps. Of course, the kids would prefer to swim, play games and fly kites, but Hamas had different plans for...
made popular Aug 2 2010
This is the real Egypt. The shame of Mubarak is only on Mubarak and his ilk. Real Egyptians love and stand with the Palestinians.
The authoritarian regime of Hosni...
made popular Jul 29 2010
Another story that hasn’t made it to any of the western news outlets:
Last Saturday, the first shopping mall was opened in Gaza. Granted, it’s a pretty modest...
made popular Jul 26 2010
This is the real Egypt. The shame of Mubarak is only on Mubarak and his ilk. Real Egyptians love and stand with the Palestinians.
The authoritarian regime of Hosni...
made popular Jul 26 2010
When Israel launched a brutal and savage war against 1.5million Palestinians in Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 it brought this:
A devastating attack on the...
made popular Jul 23 2010
Some of the hundreds of Gaza factories idled by Israel’s blockade are cranking up rusty machines to can tomatoes, mix concrete and press pills again now that...
made popular Jul 21 2010
The Political-Security Cabinet convened Wednesday to discuss Israel’s blockade policy in the Gaza Strip. It was stated during the meeting that Israel had...
made popular Jul 21 2010
Another sign that the “humanitarian crisis” the pro-Palestinians cry about so loudly is just so much more bullshit—the first real modern mall, complete with air...
made popular Jul 21 2010
A system that can shoot down incoming rockets has passed its last tests and will be ready for deployment in a few months, Israel’s Defense Ministry said Monday....
made popular Jul 20 2010
The Hamas-run government in Gaza on Sunday said it had banned women from smoking water pipes in public, as fear of the police drove many cafe owners to extinguish the...
made popular Jul 20 2010
Israeli police have arrested a Jewish man on suspicion of stabbing to death two Palestinians in 1998 and attempting to kill others in a string of attacks.
Haim...
made popular Jul 15 2010
A Libyan charity’s aid ship, flanked by Israeli missile boats, was sailing in the direction of an Egyptian port on Wednesday, apparently deciding not to defy...
made popular Jul 14 2010
The women were bleary-eyed, their voices weak, their hands red and calloused. How could they be expected to cook and clean without water or electricity? What could they...
made popular Jul 14 2010
Images
Zeitoun:
Members of the Yassin clan pose in front the remains of their destroyed houses in the devastated area of Zeitoun, outside Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Money isn’t the problem right now for the 32 members of the Yassin clan who...
© Copyright 2009 Instablogs. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Powered by InstaPress