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Posted: January 28, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Arab Rockets and bombs, Israel hitting tunnels, Hamas leaders a beating a very brave retreat. It’s deja vu all over again.

As usual Israellycool and the Muqata are the places to be. One great example:

UNRWA has gradually adopted a distinctive political viewpoint that favors the Palestinian and Arab narrative of events in the Middle East. In particular, it seems to favor the strain of Palestinian political thought espoused by those who are intent on a “return” to the land that is now Israel. UNRWA’s adoption of any political viewpoint is undesirable, but the one it has chosen to emphasize is especially regrettable. In addition to clashing with the objectives of the United States, this view has detracted from UNRWA’s humanitarian assistance, encouraged Palestinians who favor refighting long-lost wars, discouraged those who favor moving toward peace, and contributed to the scourge of conflicts that have been visited upon Palestinian refugees for decades.

and this:

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees employs and provides benefits for terrorists and criminals, asserts a former legal adviser to UNRWA who left the organization in 2007. James Lindsay, now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, served as an attorney with the US Justice Department for two decades before leaving to work for UNRWA in 2000.

This stuff is being funded here in the US. I know we are bailing out almost everyone but this takes the cake.

At least they had one quiet week.

Cause and effect

Posted: January 27, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Israellycool is liveblogging today, if you think that is a sign of bad news, you are right. It’s a simple case of cause and effect:

Cause: Bomb attacks.

Here is the effect:

The Palestinian sources reported that government offices have stopped providing services and that Hamas security officials have evacuated their posts.

Hamas and their leaders are the living embodiment of the tale of Sir Robin. (Free Spanish lesson included)

Preview of coming attractions

Posted: January 24, 2009 by datechguy in arthur vs carter, war
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The truce still holds, the rockets still haven’t fired but some things are unfortunately returning to normal:

Hundreds of Palestinians are starting to repair tunnels in Gaza that are used for smuggling in goods from Egypt.

Israel, which ended its 22-day offensive last Sunday, has warned of renewed military strikes on the strip if the tunnels are reopened.

If Hamas rearms and rockets return then so will the war.

I’m sure he will be very happy to be wrong

Posted: January 22, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Israellycool was THE place to go during the War in Gaza.

He kept up liveblogging figuring that the cease fire wouldn’t hold up. So far he has been wrong, may he continue to be so.

Of course it could be that Hamas just is waiting to complete their re-arming, if so then we will be going though this whole thing again in a year or less.

I am very pleased to have been wrong about the 2nd front. That suggests that Israel’s offensive was a whole lot more effective than anybody knows.

You know I didn’t really cover the pro-Israel rallies that took place during the war, it should be mentioned that there were a fair amount of them in several countries. More than I remember from before. Could the worm be turning?

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