You're grounded!

Some may see this is stupid, some as petty, and who knows - some may share my feelings about this, but when I think of how Britain forbade Jews from entering Israel (foremerly, "Palestine") as they were fleeing from the Nazis and their supporters, and how Israeli officials can't enter Britain, and how they kicked out a Mossad representative, it does kind of puts a smile on my face, knowing that thanks to volcano Eyjafjallajoekull, Britain is as grounded as it hasn't been, let say, since the days of World War II...

I'm only thankful that this happens only now. I don't want to think what would have happened if they cancelled the Beatles' flight to the USA back in 1964!

Sabra and Shatila - Iraqi Style

In September 1982, Muslims murdered the Lebenese president-elect Bachir Gemayel, and in response, his supporters - the Christian militia - stormed the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, killing an unknown number of people. The Red Cross counted 400 bodies, "International Sources" speak of 800, and the Palestinians speak of 3500.

Israel took heavy political fire for this, as this was done under's "Israel's shift". Israel conquered Lebanon a couple of months earlier, and was held responsible for this horrible act of violence.

Now, nearly 30 years later, Sunni Muslims kill Shiite Muslims (and vice versa) under American occupation. Will America be requested to pay the price for such acts? Will General Petraeus - the commander of the U.S. Central Command, who is personnaly responsible for Iraq - will he be requested to pay the price?

Or is it that it's okay for everyone to kill everyone, as long as they don't wear Israeli uniforms?

Shout first - ask questions later

Earlier this week, Palestinians reported that Mohamed al-Farmawi, a 15-y/o Palestinian teenager, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while protesting along, or trying to cross (depends who you ask), the security fence between the Gaza strip and Israel.

The Israeli army denied the reports, saying it is true shots were fired, but no one was hurt. The report, "obviously", was accepted as true, and was reported as such in dozens of newspapers, websites, and all other sorts of media reports.

Today the late Mohamed al-Farmawi returned home.

It might be a side-affect of the Easter, and it might be that again the Palestinians were lying, but Mohamed al-Farmawi was never killed, he was never shot, and in fact - he was never in the area of the shooting.
Instead, Mohamed al-Farmawi was in Egypt.

Maybe he was looking for a job, maybe he was looking for some food, and maybe he was looking for trouble, just like any other normal teenager, but the fact is one: Palestinians blamed Israel for the killing with no proof, and the world took the bait without asking "redundant" questions such as "where is the body?".

Keep that in mind the next time you hear such stories, and question your news sources.
Question them - and let them know you question them, so maybe they'll actually look for answers.