Are you fucking kidding me? A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel of shelling one of its Gaza schools in the Jabalya refugee camp during Operation Cast Lead, the international organization admitted this week. For close to a month, the UN accused the Israel of hitting the educational c...

Best. Excuse. Ever. Human rights groups argued Wednesday that a detailed probe into Hamas's firing of Kassam rockets at Israeli communities is not necessary, because it constitutes such a "blatant" war crime. By contrast, Israel's actions are more complex, and therefore do require such investigation...

Another day, another rocket launched at Israeli civilians, this one at the port city of Ashkelon. You know, I'm really surprised by this. Because after Cast Lead Hamas declared that they wouldn't accept any long-term truce. Plus Meshaal is saying that that Hamas's glorious victory is the first step ...

Hamas accepted a truce! Hamas accepted a truce! Hamas accepted a truce! Awesome! Does that mean that they're going to stop the rocket fire on Israeli civilians? No actually there were more barrages and injuries this morning: Two soldiers and a civilian were lightly wounded by shrapnel on Sunday even...

This is the equivalent of telling some ill-behaved little brat - one whom you've indulged for years - that he has to clean up his room. The result: petulant sulking in anticipation of a hysterical temper tantrum: Hamas bears full responsibility for the war in Gaza, a top EU official said Monday in t...

Broadcasting from their bunker below Shifia Hospital during Cast Lead, Hamas leaders constantly talked about their impending glorious victory. Since the IDF decided to withdraw both Assad and Ahmadinejad have congratulated them on said glorious victory. Even Iranian university students - those oh-so...

JPost has an article about US military experts who can't understand why the IDF didn't totally dismantle Hamas. Good question: Representatives from the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama informed Israel they would like to see the Jewish state's offensive against Hamas scaled bac...

I'm so far behind it's almost embarrassing to link to the winners from two Fridays ago. But since the posts lend themselves to academic pretension - and since I've heard that's the way to build an ethos of sophistication - it'd be a waste to not blog them. Invoking psychoanalysis is always a risky p...

Nothing is off-limits any more. Abroad, old-school anti-Jewish pogroms are again being conducted. In America, insane anti-Semitic incitement - followed inevitably by the anti-Semitic violence that it stokes - is again an ingrained part of public discourse: Jewish leaders in the Chicago area said the...

The impromptu German policy of tearing down Israeli flags to chants of "Alluh akbar" is now official police policy. Synagogues are being vandalized. Holocaust memorials are being trashed. So I dunno, maybe? I would like to know why pacifism gains so much strength every time it is directed against Is...