Very well said. =========== What follows are excerpts from a June 30, 2014, news account by Tim Craig, the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Pakistan: “Pakistan’s military launched a major ground offensive in the northwestern part of the country Monday, beginning what army commanders say will be a ‘house-to-house search’ for terrorist leaders and other militants. “The offensive began after two weeks of airstrikes... Read more
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Some Musings on Zionism
August 3 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle EastInteresting article. ======= They come from every corner of the country—investment bankers, farmers, computer geeks, jazz drummers, botany professors, car mechanics—leaving their jobs and their families. They put on uniforms that are invariably too tight or too baggy, sign out their gear and guns. Then, scrambling onto military vehicles, 70,000 reservists—women and men—join the young conscripts of what is proportionally the world’s... Read more
Hamas’s Civilian Death Strategy
July 22 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Radical IslamWhere are the “reasonable, peace-loving 90% of Muslims”? Why don’t they speak out against this strategy? Or am I missing something? ============ Let’s state the obvious: No one likes to see dead children. Well, that’s not completely true: Hamas does. They would prefer those children to be Jewish, but there is greater value to them if they are Palestinian. Outmatched by Israel’s... Read more
