Readers may have noticed again that this blog could not be viewed again from Saturday to Sunday (Jerusalem time).
Thanks to our technical support for restoring it online.
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Readers may have noticed that this blog has been down three times in the last week.
The person who maintains this blog’s server has been attentive, and has speedily attended to the situation — which was then repeated. “I’m starting to think the server is being attacked”, he said to me today.
Now, new security measures [...]
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A Libyan-chartered Greek ship flying the Moldovan flag and carrying 2,000 tons of food and medical supplies destined for Gaza has reportedly developed mechanical problems [in the engine? with communications devices?] overnight as it approached its declared destination of the Egyptian port of El-Arish.
Israeli warships are reportedly tracking the Amalthea. The Israeli Minister of [...]
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So, what would be the worst thing that could happen if they gave a press conference — and nobody came?
A few months after Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Foreign Ministry (MFA) offered a briefing to journalists on its response to criticisms about the Gaza war. Despite the nicely-air-conditioned auditorium, five journalists came.
Some [...]
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Today’s quote of the day – the 3rd in our special series, comes from Nicholas Kristof in today’s NYTimes (via Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com):
“The most cogent critiques of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians invariably come from Israel’s own human rights organizations” — here.
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CNN has announced/reported that “CNN’s senior Middle East editor, Octavia Nasr, has left the network after a controversial posting on Twitter about a Shia cleric who had longtime ties to and voiced strong support for Hezbollah. Nasr, who joined CNN in 1990, posted a Tweet over the weekend that said, ‘Sad to hear of [...]
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The U.S. State Department Acting Deputy Department Spokesman, Mark Toner, told journalists at a regular briefing in Washington on Friday that “We have called for – and I believe there is an ongoing investigation in that case, so we support — that investigation” [into the brutal death of Khaled Said soon after being detained by [...]
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A stunning admission was published overnight on Richard Silverstein’s Tikun Olam blog, here: the Israeli Border Police person [apparently male] who finished off an already-wounded Ziad Julani in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of downtown East Jerusalem on 11 June, has reportedly admitted firing at “point blank range”.
Why? Because, the Border Police person said, because [...]
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Ben Wedeman’s report for CNN today on yesterday’s demonstration in Alexandria [there was also a big demonstration in Cairo] against the death in police custody of Khaled Said, and against torture, is posted here.
One woman demonstrating told CNN that: “They want to tame us and they want to get us used to torture, even in [...]
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