Total Eclipse

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, an Islamic [...]

I think this image adequately depicts all layers of affective, cognitive, and behavioural aspects of life during wartime.
All credit and copyright and whatever (c) Charles Schulz (RIP).

For the past day or so I’ve been scouring the net for information on the current grim meathook state of affairs. I’ve been reading both Israeli and Lebanese independant blogs and webzines. I find it fascinating. Some Lebanese blogs have been getting comments in the hundreds. Surpringly, for the most part, discourse has been heated, [...]

Tel-Aviv is a truly magical place.
Go 30 miles to one direction and you have bombings.
Go 30 miles to another direction and you have misery.
Go 30 miles to yet another direction and you have both misery and bombings.
The last direction is the sea, and that’s where most Tel-Avivi people chose to spend today. Some were jogging, [...]

“War is the very crudest of responses and reflects the utter failure of imagination and intelligence in foreign policy. The cycle of poverty, inequality, and hatred will grow worse. Terrorist recruiting will flourish in the aftermath.” – Prof. Thompson Bradley, Swarthmore College
Is that so? I can think of at least 2 wars that led to [...]