Typical dictatorial tactics on display here in Cairo & Alexandria: import the poor, migrant workers and combine them with the corrupt bureaucratic officials who have become the nouveau riche through the dispensation of the regime & employ them at critical junctures to counter the …

'The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip plans to raze another 180 Palestinian houses, on top of the 20 it recently demolished in the southern town of Rafah, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights charged on Thursday.

"Can Richard Goldstone's tarnished reputation be rehabilitated without him acknowledging that the evidence, including new information, proves he was wrong? There is a politically motivated effort underway to rehabilitate the tarnished reputation of Richard Goldstone.

French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was attacked by a mob in Gaza on Friday morning. Her attackers were enraged over statements she had allegedly made the day before supporting human rights for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

'Christians have been living in the Middle East seven decades prior to the arrival of Islam, and for 14 other decades as part of, or under, the law of Islam. Never has the situation of Christians reached such a difficult, unstable situation as it has in the last two years.

As long as the Israel and Arab conflict continues, so will the hatred be taught to the children.......

Two Israeli soldiers received suspended sentences and demotions on Sunday for using a Palestinian child as a human shield during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, an army spokeswoman said.

Hammad to 'al-Hayat': No al-Qaida in Gaza, insists "we're centrists, we don't like zealots," claims Israel trying to escalate Gaza situation.

The latest PSR poll asks Palestinian Arabs: Do current political, security, and economic conditions lead you to seek emigration abroad? 37% of Gazans, and 24% of West Bankers, say either that they "certainly seek to emigrate" or "seek to emigrate" from the territories.

In Gaza City, girls as young as 13 years old are restricted in their activities under pressure of Hamas and their ultra conservative interpretation of Islam.

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza resumed rocket attacks on Israeli civilians Wednesday afternoon, firing two missiles. One of them struck the separation-security barrier and the second one landed in an open agricultural field. No injuries were reported.

"After Israel says it 'reserves the right' to prevent Lebanese ships from accessing Hamas-ruled enclave, Ban's spokesman says world body's stated preference remains that aid to Strip should be delivered by established routes

It's the 1960s all over again, and I am talking about the dark side, not the glamorous, glorious side.

Looks like Palestinians brief fling with what little democracy they had is coming to an end:

If you heard about an attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in which hundreds of civilians were killed, would you assume that the attack had been perpetrated by Israel? According to Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, you very likely would - and you'd be wrong.

Excellent analysis, plus some very enlightening links.

"Senior Israeli Defense Forces officials have provided the following video about the "Flotilla Incident" that took place on May 31, 2010. It reveals the truth behind the event, which has been ignored by the international community and buried by the mainstream media.

Please scroll down below for photos of the new shopping mall that opened today in Gaza. I have also attached new photos and film of Gaza's hotels, beauty spas, swimming pools, beaches and street markets -- images the BBC, New York Times and others refuse to show you.

"The Turkish charity that led the flotilla involved in a deadly Israeli raid has extensive connections with Turkey's political elite, and the group's efforts to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza received support at the top levels of the governing party, Turkish diplomats …

Turkey was the most prominent country in the recent flotilla, but according to a number of indicators, the humanitarian situation in Turkey is worse than it is in Gaza. Infant mortality in Gaza is 17.7 per thousand; in Turkey it is 24.8.

Via Didi Remez (whose Coteret blog has become an indispensable resource for progressives on Israel-Palestine issues), Israel's Channel Ten TV News was leaked a memo on a Frank Luntz poll commissioned by the right-wing propaganda outfit The Israel Project analyzing the effective …

"Hamas's security forces in the Gaza Strip detained over the weekend dozens of Fatah activists in one of the largest crackdowns in recent months, Fatah officials said.The latest clampdown on Fatah comes after fresh mediation efforts to solve the crisis with Hamas failed.

"Muslim extremists -- believed to be from Hamas-- have repeatedly vandalized a UN summer camp in Gaza because they believe the children are being "corrupted" with a summer program of "games, sports and human rights lessons."

A 19-year-old man — whose father won't hire a lawyer to defend him — has been in jail without trial for more than a year because he is gay.

excerpt ''85 senators -- including both the majority and minority leaders -- signed an AIPAC-endorsed letter expressing unconditional support for both Israel's botched raid on an aid flotilla that killed nine and the ongoing siege of Gaza that compelled the activists to organize  …

The Israeli Security Cabinet has decided to relax import rules for humanitarian goods and to ease much of its land blockade on the Gaza Strip.

It's a fascinating phenomenon: Why do people and organizations that present themselves as progressive team up with reactionary Muslims?

Although most of the recent talk regarding flotillas has revolved around ships sailing toward Gaza, at least two plans have emerged for "reverse flotillas" – from Israel toward Turkey – to highlight what organizers have labeled the Turks' "shameless hypocrisy" in th …

If Hamas truly wants to end the blockade on Gaza, there is an easy way to do so - allow the Red Cross to visit kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, says Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed Israel's representatives the world over that there were never any humanitarian supplies or equipment aboard the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli commandos were ambushed by armed mercenaries posing as peace activists.

Hey there all you starry eyed humanitarians, do gooders, peace activists, liberal religious, anti Israel, anti Jewish haters and other useful idiots! Do you want to help a small beleaguered minority group of Muslims in the Mideast fighting for a state of its own against a larger, …

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

"Evidently, a lot of people out there really think there was a huge need for the supplies being brought in by the Turkish "peace activist" flotilla. "

"The Free Kurdistan Movement, human rights group, says it is planning the first international flotilla and motor convoy to reach Turkish-occupied Kurdistan-

"Sec. Hillary Clinton discusses the government's position on Israel's raid of a flotilla carrying aid supplies to Gaza.

The effort to destroy the Jewish state has many fronts. One front is in Iran, where the maniacal regime that has repeatedly promised to "wipe Israel off the map" marches inexorably toward a nuclear bomb.

The SA government summoned the Israeli ambassador to demand the release of a South African journalist held after a raid on a ship in Israel on Monday.South Africa's deputy minister of international relations, Sue van der Merwe, summoned Israeli ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg to register the government's "strongest possible protest" to the Israeli government, after an attack on the ship, the Mavi Marmara on Monday morning.

The Israeli government has defended the raid on a ship carrying 600 pro-Palestinian campaigners, two thirds of them Turks, during which nine people were killed and many more injured.

Our Navy commandoes fell right into the hands of the Gaza mission members.

A flotilla of pro-Palestinian demonstrators with links to terrorist groups is en route to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israeli government requests to deliver their shipment through legal channels.[1]

As I mentioned previously, the moonbats who are trying to sail to Gaza have to document how terrible the lives of Gazans are have wonderful choices for fine dining and for working out.

Israel says it will block a fleet of nine ships carrying international activists and supplies from reaching the Gaza Strip.

HRW is ignoring a basic fact about the operation: Hamas' major goal. Hamas didn't expect to win militarily.

In the midst of the Cast Lead counterterror offensive in late 2008 and early 2009, the Israeli Arab group Ittijah accused Israel of war crimes and called to put Israeli leaders on trial.

Human rights groups and the Arab world have furiously objected to a new IDF policy that makes it easier for Gaza and foreign infiltrators from Judea and Samaria to appeal orders that they return home.

Egypt is stepping up security on its border with the Gaza Strip after earth moving equipment came under fire from the Palestinian side for three days, a security source said on Saturday.

"Here are some pictures of that awful "apartheid wall" separating Arab families from each other and causing big problems among Palestinian Arabs.