Gazans celebrate bombing

As word of the suicide bombing in Dimona spread Monday, Gaza residents were treated to celebratory wreaths of flowers as well as sweets that were handed to drivers and passers-by.Gaza motorists receiving the treats and sweets also honked their horns in triumph and celebration.The "party" was somewhat marred when word spread that Abu Sa'ad, a senior member and spokesman for the Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees' military wing, was killed in an IDF attack in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya...read more news from Jerusalem

By Gaza's fallen fence

iLike a balloon in a blizzard, Gaza's western fence has blown in the wind, thus exposing the true substance and dimensions of what lay beyond, ahead, under and above it.

Beyond the fence sprawled Egypt. And while the analogy to the fall of the Berlin Wall begged to be made by the ignorant, let alone the tendentious - no one resorted to it, including the most virulent anti-Israelis.

Why? Wasn't this partition's collapse reminiscent of its alter ego's? Had this wall not caged thousands, and did not the Gazans, like the Berliners in their time, burst through it like children into a school's courtyard upon a long-overdue ringing of the bell? Did the Arabs on both sides of this situation not belong to the same people, speak the same language, profess the same religion and - once enabled to ignore the fence that had risen between them - fall into each other's arms?

Well, they didn't...read more

Seeing War Though Palestinian Eyes

When you learn to see the world through Palestinian eyes, you’ll know that Israel’s Gaza actions were stunningly effective and that “the world” couldn’t care less.
To see the world through Jewish eyes would be to see 4,000 rockets fall through Sderot ceilings and onto avenues, killing or wounding those too slow or unlucky to get out of the way, such as a 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy or an older woman crossing a street. There were no editorials in The New York Times damning the Palestinians for the collective punishment of Sderot innocents. There were no pious statements against rockets from the United Methodist Church that was finally indignant this week about Israel... read more news from Jerusalem

I’m the last casualty

I’m one of the last casualties of this war. I was killed at the end of the war’s final operation. I’m the last casualty of the Second Lebanon War, and the Winograd Commission makes no difference to me.

There was nothing in the first or second report that I didn’t know already. There was no need for a comprehensive inquiry to understand that mistakes happened, that chaos prevailed, that there was no serious discussion, and that there was no objective...read more