Musings of a modern guy

This has got to be the shortest peace effort in years. Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been preaching peace and settlement for the past few years, probably took on his toughest effort; getting Hamas to say we do ‘recognize Israel’. So it was good to hear him come out and say triumphantly that Hamas […]

Israel has suffered for long due to the number of crude rockets fired from Gaza. A city that suffers the most is Sderot, a city only 1 km from Gaza and well within the range of these rockets. In another of these rocket attacks, the Israeli army has now suffered serious damage, with a […]

Another outcome of the infighting between Hamas and Fatah whereby the Fatah movement was kicked out of Gaza due to a combination of superior fighting power of the Hamas armed groups and the weakness of Fatah. In order to make the Fatah based Palestinian Government now controlling only the West Bank as more palatable to […]

In positive news for Hamas, they finally managed to rescue the captured BBC Reporter, Alan Johnston. He had been held for over 4 months captivity in the premises of Gaza’s Dogmush clan, supposed to be close to the Fatah movement. Hamas has been looking to do this for some time to re-establish its claim of […]

Tony Blair is all set to be kicked out of office. In a deal with Gordon Brown, Blair will finally exit the British Prime Minister’s position on June 27th. He is still young, young enough that he will not want to just retire. Well, here is a proposed solution; a just that is very challenging, […]

Well, it’s official. The takeover by Hamas of the Gaza strip; the executions of Fatah men and the bloody fighting got Abbas to burn the bridges with Hamas, and the Palestinian lands are now divided. And Israel has cemented this division, by attacking Hamas in the Gaza strip and opening contacts with the new Palestinian […]