Tag archive for ‘hamas’
Punching Bag Mentality
It’s times like these, I almost fall victim to despair. The immediate feeling of injustice, it’s hard to scale into words. The conflict has leaped into a new strategy, and a new war of de-legitimization is being waged against Israel. We are now being forced into circumstances where the only course of action we have [...]
Getting some perspective on the War in Gaza
Regarding the costs of war, just to put things in perspective [translated from a piece by Brigadier General (res.) Shuki Shichrur, a former chief of staff of the Israeli Northern Command]: Fallujah lies 70km west-north-west to Baghdad. In 2004, it had between 200 and 300 thousand residents. From early 2004, it was under control of [...]
Hamas under fire
Again I find myself blogging life during wartime. Tel-Aviv is fucked up like that; An hours drive away, a quarter of a million Israelis are under rocket fire, and here life goes on as usual. Just a quick recap. In the summer of 2005, Israel left the Gaza strip. In the summer of 2007, Hamas, [...]