Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

The katyusha rockets fired at the northern Israeli town of Nahariya today from southern Lebanon have raised the stakes of the current confli...

Some very brief, related and unrelated thoughts on the news from today about peace talks with Syria. 1. Contrary to the claims of Shelly Yac...

Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the PSP (Photo: Wikipedia ) Like most of the Western media, Ha'aretz has done a very poor job of covering the...

The reports from Beirut look eerily similar not only to scenes from the annals of Lebanese civil war but also to what we saw in Gaza before ...

Map of Jerusalem ( ArcIMS ), Qiryat Moshe in orange According to Ha'aretz , Hizbullah flagship station Al Manar reported that the "...

Map of the Gaza Strip ( Source) The latest Haaretz-Dialog poll shows that a majority of Israelis support direct talks with Hamas in order t...

The Israeli Navy Ship Hanit ("Spear") There is an excellent article by the ever-dependable Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff detaili...

Antidote to the post that follows below: Shlomi Saranga and Moshik Afia, "Sweet Dream" (2002) I have not seen a great deal of disc...

Ahmadinejad releases Brits (Photo: Iranian TV screenshot ) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today announced that his country would rele...

Rear door of Merkava 4 tank, a feature that experts say helps the IDF save lives. On a recent visit to Israel, I spoke with a member of th...

Saba Mahmood Addresses the Crowd, Thurs., Sept. 7, 2006 A good friend of mine and loyal reader of this blog took issue with the cut-up ...

"Sorry guys, I screwed up." As you have probably all heard by now, Nasrallah recently apologized for being an idiot and having his...

Peekabooooo... There was an interesting report on Israel's Channel 2 Television News last night. In the report, an embedded Israeli jour...

"Hizbullah Gorilla" or Innocent Civilian? The English-language edition of Ha'aretz reports that the IDF has uncovered a netwo...

Barry Rubin has an interesting piece on "the new era" in the Middle East, which he sees, perhaps in line with Marx's famous ...

One of the more popular characters on Israel's satirical show "Eretz Nehederet" I spent part of last week in the Arab village ...

As a follow-up to Amos's earlier posts I re-submit the excellent resource Memri.org , which has linked a translated and subtitled video ...

While many worry that the current conflict in the Levant will lead to conflagration across the Middle East, Tony Blair insists that Iran is ...

There has been a lot of commentary in the past few days on how to interpret the Hizbullah's decision to provoke Israel by launching its ...

I am not sure what the consensus on this is. Perhaps we won't know until many years from now. But I am curious what the motivations for ...