Israel mobilizes world war against Goldstone’s report on Gaza war

The Jerusalem Post reported today (Thursday) that “A day after the release of the scathing Goldstone Commission report that accused Israel of war crimes, Jerusalem on Wednesday revealed its defensive strategy: convince the world’s democracies the report handcuffs them in their fight against terrorism, and keep discussion of the document confined to the Human Rights [...]

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My neighbors are all outside

The children just rang my doorbell. My neighbors are all outside, because they’ve heard somewhere, somehow, that we should all be taking precautions and not staying indoors after the earthquake that shook Crete several hours ago, and was felt along the Mediterranean coast of Israel (and of course Gaza as well).
I wonder where they [...]

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Baladi vegetables from Wadi Fukhin, a Palestinian village southwest of Bethlehem

This article appeared in Haaretz about the pleasures of baladi [or, authentic home grown from the countryside] vegetables from a Palestinian West Bank village near Bethlehem.
Of note: the vegetables have to be smuggled past checkpoints to get to Jerusalem.
Sometimes, they are confiscated.
Without further comment, here is an excerpt from the Haaretz story:
“Since the village [...]

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TONIGHT: Biggest and most beautiful Full Moon of 2009

From space.com, we learn that at sunset tonight, where ever we are on the planet, we will see the biggest and brightest full moon of the year.
“A full moon rises right around sunset, no matter where you are. That’s because of the celestial mechanics that produce a full moon: The moon and the sun are [...]

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NOW they notice!

Haaretz reported Friday, with some surprise, that Gaza sewage has been pumped straight into the Mediterranean since last January, when the Gaza power plant last had to shut down for lack of fuel, and it was feared that sudden electricity outages could cause catastrophic sewage flooding in Gaza that might even threaten human life (as [...]

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Papua New Guinea to USA: If you’re not willing to lead, get out of the way

So, the U.S. got out of the way, and joined a consensus resolution at the Climate Change Conference in Bali that calls for two years of negotiations on something to replace the emissions reductions targets contained in the 1997 Kyodo Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The consensus resolution, which the U.S. eventually [...]

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Rosett from snowy New York on Bali climate change meeting

Claudia Rosett writes: “On Bali, the UN climatocrats are off and running with their Dec. 3-14 climate conference, under hardship conditions including the requirement that all catering for side events must be ordered at least 48 hours in advance. Further rigors, according to a report from China’s Xinhua News Agency, include the demand that all [...]

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UNSG BAN squeezes into the picture

The three major news agencies have all covered the just-released “synthesis” report on climate change following the close of the IPCC meeting in Valencia, Spain today. The”synthesis” report will be discussed by some 10,0000 delegates who are expected to participate in the Bali meeting of the UN Conference on Climate Change starting in [...]

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New Climate Report warns of “abrupt” changes

A “synthesis” report on the climate prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being released today by UNSG BAN Ki-Moon, who decided soon after his election that taking on global warming and other signs of climate change would be lofty but not too controversial goals for his term in office.
The BBC [...]

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Who do Palestinians think is going to clean up after them, their Mothers?

Here, we are told, there are other problems that are bigger, more important, more pressing than pollution and the environment. “Politics”, for example, is both the explanation of what is wrong, and of why we can do nothing about it.
Yet, every hour of every day, the problem is growing.
Who do Palestinians think is going [...]

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