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17 August 2007
Biased broadcasting
Source: Yahoo and AFP, August 14th
Can someone say what’s wrong with this picture? The text says “An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following and early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)”
I wouldn’t like to correct the Associated French Press, but […]
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6 February 2007
Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq
If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier.
The video […]
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15 August 2006
Oh dearie me. He’s lost it.
Check out Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s exercise in realpolitische madness.
He’s obviously insane, but just imagine how many fuckwits in influential positions are thinking the same? We’re all in the shit, get your bomb shelters ready.
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4 August 2006
Open season
The semi-annual hunting season in the Middle-East has taken off extremely well. Even better than anticipated. The Israelis feel that the game is dug in so deeply that they have give extra amount of hunting permissions to it’s near by territories.
“This is so large scale chase that we’ve had to limit the weapons to non-nuclear […]
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31 July 2006
Israel getting cold feet?
So, the Israelis have agreed to a 48-hour pause in aerial operations (kind of, anyway - they can still bomb away at “targets preparing attacks”). What does this mean? I, sitting in a warm, safe (but boring) call centre several hundred miles away, obviously have no idea. But speculating is fun, isn’t it? So let’s!
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26 July 2006
Drinking tea with Israel and Hizbollah
Although the strike against the Unifil wasn’t deliberate it most certainly not was an accident. There has been lot of debate in Jerusalem Post and other Israeli medias that the Unifil in the Southern Lebanon hasn’t just been insignificant but also harmful to Israel. They seem to see Unifil as impotent and not capable of […]
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26 July 2006
Israel is now targeting UN observers and using clusterbombs on civilian villages
I really wonder how long Israel is allowed to “just do what it wants”? How many civilian and UN casualties we need before EU takes action?
A Finnish UN observer is believed to have been killed [link: FIN | ENG] yesterday in Israel’s airstrike to the city of Khiam. Israel stroke to a light UN bomb […]
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25 July 2006
The middle east buddy list by Slate
The middle east buddy list by Slate
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24 July 2006
I found these “nice” photos from Truth will set you free
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19 July 2006
Israeli kids sending “good will” messages to Lebanon
Israeli kids have discovered a new way to communicate with their pen-pals in Lebanon. Now that the countries diplomatic relationships are on the edge and the postal system isn’t working on 100% efficiency, the kids have started to sign the the one things that cross the border regardless of anything - the artillery shells.
The […]