Category Archives: Middle East

This Is Going On Your Permanent Record

August 11, 2012 – 10:37 am

zionism, israel, gestapo, palestine, 1946 borders, children, prison Ihab Mishaal, below, a 14 year-old-Palestinian boy who was sentenced to 8 years in prison today by an Israeli military court. Israel tortures and detains up to 700 Palestinian children each year with impunity. After all, our kids can be subjected to the cruelest forms of treatment […]

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The Memory Of An Elephant

July 28, 2012 – 11:57 am

Elephants rival humans, apes, and dolphins for intelligence. Their dense highly folded brains are well suited for memory retention of their long lives, but some ethnic humans can never forget a tragedy and this week the families of the athletes slain at the 1972 Munich Olympics asked for a moment of silence to honor their […]

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The Amazing Shrinking Palestine

July 16, 2012 – 9:34 pm

Last week an octogenarian Wall Street retiree financed an ad campaign on New York suburban train platforms showing the shrinkage of Palestine. According to the official British Survey of Mandate Palestine, issued in 1945, private ownership of land by non-Jewish Palestinians encompassed 24 million dunams (approximately 90% of Mandate Palestine), while Jewish land ownership was […]

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Shark Alert

June 24, 2012 – 6:14 pm

Everyone in the world is scared of sharks. One July 4th weekend Richie Boy and I were surfing off Montauk. The temperature was hot and the air was steamy with humidity. Richie Boy noticed that no one was in the water and spotted beachgoers pointing off-shore two hundred meters from the break. A school of […]

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Bewitched And Beheaded

June 22, 2012 – 6:58 pm

The temperature in Saudi’s Najran Province bordering Yemen runs into the high 110s this time of the year with spikes into the low 140s. The name itself means thirsty, yet the highlands support dazzling forest in comparison to the sun-bleached deserts. There are even waterfalls in the mountains, but this week the province hit the […]

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