Here’s a question we Israelis won’t ask ourselves about the Palestinians, especially not about Gaza. The question is taboo. Not only won’t anyone ask it out loud, but very, very few people will dare ask it in the privacy of their own minds …

… The question we have to ask ourselves is this: If anybody treated us like we’re treating the people in Gaza, what would we do? Read the rest of this entry »

“Israel makes every possible effort to avoid civilian casualties,” yet another Israeli ambassador said only hours before the Gaza massacre. Truthdig

Yeah and if you believe that, I got a bridge to … oh wait.

Did you ever see Bill Murray doing ‘The Israeli Price Is Right’? On what is by now a completely worthless SNL—my god, you people are easily amused. But in the early days, man, you lot not only missed the Killer Bees—one of John Belushi’s best roles, really—they were from South America, wore bandoleers and were very edgy in the way you’d imagine bees with bobble head-feelers might be (and Belushi doing Cocker better than Cocker, even alongside him …) Read the rest of this entry »