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Israel begins its invasion of Gaza (UPDATED)

ShareAnd so it begins. As Israel’s devastating war against the besieged refugee population of the Gaza Strip enters its second week, the Israeli artillery joined the air force and navy in bombing, shelling and destroying Gaza. The addition of this unit of the Israeli army to the destruction seemed to indicate that a ground invasion… »

The “Arab Culture” and the Shoe: Let’s Put on our Orientalist Anthropological Musing Caps On Shall We?

ShareThe official play-by-playBush: “Shukran Jazeera” (hehehe)First Shoe: “This is a kiss goodbye, you son of a dog (Ibn kalb)” Second Shoe: “this is for the widows, the orphans, and all those killed in Iraq.”
Not only did those comments and the conjoined hurling of shoes spark what would later be known as “shoe-gate,” but it… »

He HAS TO have sex 15 times a day

ShareI mean, “it’s all in the medical report.” And if not in the medical report, the only other answer the popularly labeled “Egyptian Hulk” can offer up concerning such symptoms of his exceptional strength is: “La ilaha illa ‘llah, Muhammadun-Rasulullah.”
Known in an Egyptian TV interview and through viral mass emails as “The Egyptian Hulk,” Alexandria-based… »

More on Palestinian Negotiating Maps or Lackthereof

ShareA copy of the best map used by Palestinian negotiators.
Sam, a KF reader, submitted a constructive comment in response to a recent post about the use or unuse of maps by Palestinian negotiators trying to trade “peace for land” with the Israelis (ironically, Palestinians lost both in the end).
KFers wrote that the Palestinian… »

Incompetence in the face of oppression

ShareQuiqui: I heard something in class the other day, and I almost fell out of my seat.
The PLO didn’t have maps throughout the Oslo process.
Is this true?! Whoa. I’m wondering if, then, I can get some guidance on reading material. I’ve never run across this before, but I don’t doubt the prof is right. I… »

Death of the two-state solution?

ShareWhen President Bush convened the Annapolis summit last November, pledging to have a final solution based on a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in place by the end of 2008, nobody believed him. Except possibly the Western media. As the deadline approaches, both Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have been saying that there is no… »

Spitfire-side Chats: Prisoner Release and Kuntar

ShareDisclaimer: This is really Mohammad’s post-but, like a typical Arab male, his laziness (in regards to learning how to use the editing functions on blogger) and his intimidation in the face of a strong Arab female (in regards to how fragile his ego felt when biting a concept, a theme created by an Arab female),… »

Spitfire-side Chats: And the one millionth “suspected terrorist” wins…

ShareThe ACLU recently reported that the US government’s terrorist watch list has now reached a whopping 1 million names. After learning this information, one KABOBer asked: 

“So what does the 1 millionth win?” 

And here are suggestions to the US government on how to reward the one millionth “suspected terrorist”: 

1. Norelco beard trimmer
2. Apple pie
3. A Lynard… »

On Politics & Prose

ShareSaree Makdisi, professor of English literature at UCLA, latest book “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation” chronicles life under Israeli military rule. As a part of his book tour, he was invited to do a book signing and reading at Washington, DC area’s well-known bookstore “Politics & Prose”. But, given that it… »

NYTimes Finally Admits that the Nakba was a Holocaust

ShareFollowing yesterday’s statement by Israeli Deputy Minister Matan Vilnai in which he threatened the Palestinians with a “shoah” (Holocaust, in Hebrew), the New York Times has finally come to its senses! You see, the New York Times translated the word “shoah” (Holocaust) into “catastrophe” despite the fact that the word “catastrophe” already exists in… »