The Palestinian Fatah Movement is doing whatever it can to brush up its image in the run up to this Summer’s parliamentary elections, including the appointment of young blood into the ranks. The outcome of the elections is going to be of crucial importance for the chances of peace with Israel as well as the country’s division of power. What would be the implications for a Palestine under more Islamicised rule, should Hamas achieve a much feared majority? And will the electoral map show that Islamists are on the rise mainly as a result of corruption and poverty?

The happenings in Palestine are going eerily exactly according to a master plan drawn up two years ago by the murdered Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. This leader drew out his vision for power sharing and legitimization of the Hamas organisation, starting by condoning to a ceasefire and subsequently by readying the organization for participation in mainstream politics. Next on the plan is slowly eating away power remaining in the hands of the Fatah movement. More on the bright side; Yassin also did not exclude acceptance of a two state solution. But, his condition is nevertheless worrisome – only as an interim solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Jewish emigration into Israel did not begin with refugees from Hitler’s Europe back in the 1920s the typical Jewish home already have a little blue box of the Jewish national fund for the collection of nickels and dimes to assist Israeli land reclamation then long underway long before anyone outside of Germany had heard of Hitler.

Nor did the emigration begin with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. A Jewish militia, a direct ancestor of the Haganah, was already protecting settlement in Israel in 1909, at a time when Arab nationalism did not yet exist Tel Aviv was founded in that year as far back as 1905 an addition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica reported the population of Jerusalem as 40,000 Jews 13,000 Christians and 7000 Muslims.

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In a twist of fate worthy of a Perry Mason episode, the President of the United States truly has accomplished his mission. He has ascertained beyond a scintilla of a doubt, that Iraq has absolutely no weapons of mass destruction.

In Gulf War 1, George Bush Sr. on the advice of General Colin Powell did not march on to Baghdad because they knew that they could not control the country, just as the mighty Soviet Union could not control Pops, aka Poppy aka Puff Daddy aka P. Diddy Afghanistan. When the Russians invaded Afghanistan, the United States hired Osama Bin Laden and the Bin Laden family to boot them out, which they succeeded in doing. In return, the Bin Laden family financed the oil company of George Bush Jr.

In 1941 or thereabouts Japan invade Pearl Harbor. The oysters were extremely busy that day praying for the souls of their ghosts. You cannot write fiction as twisted as actual human behavior because you could never suspend the disbelief. Today, 66 years after the WWII, the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany and Japan are best friends. Perhaps there really is hope for a reconciliation between Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan. Humans, like prize fighters can only embrace in the ring after they beat each other’s brains out. Are web rings good or bad for your SEO? Some say that they are poisonous like link farms and others swear by them. You can curse like Hell on television and the big screen, and pretend to cut people’s heads off in your video game, with blood flying all over the place, but you cannot curse in your articles or your books. Why is that?

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