Gazan rocket scientists back in business

Probably the lesson taught last November has already evaporated from the overheated brains of assorted Gazan "activists": slowly b...

No plague of locusts for the Children of Israel, almost

Once again, its the Egyptians who suffer, and the Children of Israel who get off lightly, sort of. That plague of locusts in Egypt, reported...

The Bulgarians get it right

According to The Times of Israel , via the Hamas website al-Risala, "...Bulgarian security officials came to the hotel where the delega...

Are they making this up?

Or is it a very early Purim spiel? The Times of Israel has this item telling us that "Egyptian security forces have pumped water into ...

Hamas: women's movement spreads disease

Nope, they don't mean any specific female suffragist movement or anything political at all: there is no such thing as a women's pol...

The "in-your-dreams-department" of wishful thinking

I mean, we already know this, but it's nice to get confirmation of the facts. The Times of Israel is reporting that "Recently, the...

Challah on Monday

On a very light note (sort of), and via The Elder of Ziyon , comes this small item . Note the spelling (and I guess the pronounciation) of t...

The phantoms of ceasefire, proportionality and other Middle East myths - Part II

Farmer Jones and farmer Smith, or Parable of Proportionality . Wild West circa 18.. It was a warm and sunny April morning. Farmer Jones was ...

Hamas hammered like Hezbollah in 2006

We know, because he told us so (although not in so many words), that Hezbollah's leader, Nasrallah, would not have given Israel a causus...

The phantoms of ceasefire, proportionality and other Middle East myths - Part I

As usual, every flare-up of local conflict causes the usual buzzwords applied to it to be taken out of the drawer, dusted and presented via ...

Let's hear it for the cheese-mongers! (Bad "Life of Brian" joke)

Here's one for all you hawks out there (and when it comes to Israel, I'm a hawk, whatever anyone might want to believe otherwise abo...

The Pillar of Defense fiasco

I had a rare opportunity to be (mostly) detached from the media - both TV and radio - for the duration of the Pillar of Cloud (for some reas...

From the Warped Mirror

The Warped Mirror is the blog of Petra Marquardt-Bigman, one of the good people, and a blog I regularly read, when I've the time to leaf...