Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

Footage released by Israel Army Radio seems to contradict claims by Balad MK Hanin Zuabi that she saw "no people carrying clubs" ...

I've mapped out the home provinces of each of the activists who were killed and placed a marker in each province's capital. The dat...

An article published today in Ha'aretz (no English version available yet) by Fadi Ayadat indicates that almost all of the hundreds of a...

Highlights use of paintball guns and speculates about tactics used by commandos boarding the Marmara.

From Ha'aretz: Israel gave the following breakdown of countries and numbers of those activists ordered expelled, excluding the nine k...

Everyone involved in this blog probably had the same initial reaction of disbelief, shock and sadness when they heard about the deaths (so f...

I'm not holding my breath for a popular uprising in Gaza against Hamas, but I found this article by Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel inte...

I was disappointed to find no word of the whereabouts of a huge hoard of early (?) Hellenistic coins found near Rafah in January in this rec...

BY AMOS Jimmy Carter is in Damascus today and had the following to say after his meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and before ch...

More and more reports are appearing in the international press about dissatisfaction with Hamas in Gaza, though these are balanced by quotat...

Hamas  agrees  to allow Fatah forces to patrol Rafah crossing (Ha'aretz): The London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported Saturday that Hamas ...

Egyptian FM Ahmed Abu El Gheit (Photo: NATO ) Hamas's press conference did not yield a major breakthrough for Israel. Although Hamas see...

Map showing the Philadelphi Corridor Although the IDF build-up on the border to Gaza is continuing, there are signs that Israel is hesitan...

Officers of the EU Border Assistance Mission at Rafah at a Medal ceremony.  T he mission has been on standby since June 9, 2007 ( EU BAM Raf...

These are the details of the Mubarak proposal announced at Sharm, as reported in Ha'aretz . My translation / paraphrase with intersperse...

Philadelphi Corridor Current objectives: 1. Get the international community to force a settlement on Hamas under which it commits to a cessa...

Turkish PM Erdogan Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" has generated a number of interesting diplomatic moves and rifts that give u...

Much of my thinking about the current operation has been guided by a hidden axiom, that Israel cannot, under any circumstances, reoccupy the...

As a number of commentators are pointing out, "Operation Cast Lead" has reached a critical point. It looks like the air force is s...

Video: Israel's Foreign Ministry Addresses the People of Gaza Let's assume that Hamas is a rational political actor. What did the or...