Fat don’t Fit!!! (7 ways to gain some weight in Gaza)

From the Hanitizer, who is currently in Gaza:

Going on week 4 of my visit to Gaza, I’m hoping to wrap up my short “vacation” in the coming days.

To say the least about this recent trip to the Strip, I have definitely gained a few pounds.

I stayed strong and said ‘No’ to many things like sodas, transfats, and heavily fried foods, but I had to bend on the sugar tea.

I honestly thought Gaza would be a place to preserve my diet given the low food security in the Strip, but little did I know.

The Politics of a Paycheck

Visiting with a family member in Mo’askar Jabalya (the Jabalya Refugee Camp), I came to learn of a not so unique story about security forces personally working for the Fateh government.

In May 2007, just a few weeks before the Hamas takeover of Gaza, my cousin Hasan was kidnapped by loyalist Fateh security forces and kept in their basement for 10 days.

IDF to the Vatican: I know what you did last summer!

It’s no doubt that by now, we’ve heard all about the small booklet entitled “On Either Side of the Border.”

Claiming to be the testimony of a former Hezbollah officer named Ibrahim, who spied for Israel and later changed his name to Avi, the pamphlet “outlines” the Vatican’s deep and sympathetic relationship with Hezbollah, part of which includes organized tours to France, Italy, the Vatican, and Auschwitz to teach them “how to wipe out Jews.”

العربية أم العبرية . . . ما هو الفرق؟

For those of us who don’t speak any Arabic, the title for this post actually means: “Arabic or Hebrew . . . what’s the difference?”

The title came to me while I was quickly reading an article and I accidentally confused the words “Hebrew” and “Arabic.”

They look so similar, but are so inherently different (the difference is one letter) and I found myself saying: “Why are they going to change the names of Arab cities to Arab names?”

That’s because it’s not Arabic they’re going them change it to; it’s Hebrew.

“Surprise, surprise! More ‘angry Muslims’ killing people!”

The recent clashes between Han Chinese and Turkic Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province have made the front pages here in the States and around the world as of late.

Headlines flashing “Tensions worsen in China’s West,” “Deadly ethnic Violence in China,” and “Uighurs vs. Han Chinese” have been the some of the eye-catching titles of some of this past week’s articles and news reports about the violence and the bloodshed in the former Islamic Uighur Kingdom.