Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

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

Earlier, I heard the Gilad Shalit tape that was released by Hamas today. It was painful to listen to him speaking from captivity, and even h...

(Click to enlarge. Go to the link for even more detail. Map: Perry-Castaneda) Today, what appears to have been a suicide car bombing killed ...

(Thanks to Geoff for this link) I was watching CNN earlier this morning and saw some coverage of the latest Israeli foray into public relati...

Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna (Source: Freudianslip ) I am not sure about Uzi Benziman 's conclusion, citing Anna Freud, that ...

Israel's foremost military commentator, Ze'ev Schiff, has died . It seems like yesterday that I quoted one of his articles here. His...

As'ad AbuKhalil has been trying to explain his political theology to his mother: Knowing of my views against the very existence of Leba...

Map of Gaza (May 2005, Perry Castaneda ) The mantra that we are hearing in the wake of Hamas's victory in the Gaza Strip is rather famil...

BND spy "Fat Willy" (Photo: Spiegel ) Ha'aretz has a long profile of former German intelligence officer Willy Dietl , a famo...

Iraq Oil Infrastructure ( source ) From Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey 's testimony ( watch it on CSPAN) at the House Armed Services...

A mural on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa I've recently returned from a short but rewar...

Peres visited the Kotel after winning the presidency With car bombs going off in Lebanon and civil war raging in Gaza, it might seem trivial...

(Photo source: al-Jazeera ) I'm sure the special effort MK Muhammad Barakeh (Hadash) made to show his disgust for the democratic opposi...

Kiss those oysters goodbye, Tiv Ta'am shoppers! (Photo: Tiv Ta'am ) UPDATE (June 12): Lisa now has a longer post on this story, wi...