In his book The Unspoken Alliance, writer and academic Sasha Polakow-Suransky references documents released by the South African government, indicating that Shimon Peres offered nuclear warheads to PW Botha's apartheid regime. Israel strongly denies the claims.

About the economic embargo on Gaza, and the tunnels used to smuggle goods, etc.

WTF?

"Tony Judt writes in the NYT of Fictions on the Ground the illegal communities have nothing to do with Israel’s defense, much less its founding ideals of agrarian self-sufficiency and Jewish autonomy. They are nothing but a colonial takeover that the United States has no business subsidizing."

\"The Israeli army had dropped the case for want, it said, of enough evidence to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.\" The thing is, his murder is on film; and, what\'s on film contradicts what the Israeli government has to say about the shooting.

On Hoder\'s trip to Israel.

An Israeli hospital held one of the women\'s three triplets as a guarantee until she could pay her bills. (I love Canada.)

A great post, and so far the comments aren\'t a big mess.

A MetaFilter post on Hoder\'s visit to Iran.

I can\'t imagine this will be good for the peace-process.

I really want to see <em>Munich</em>.

Ahmadinejad, and old-school Iranian leader if there ever was one, calls for Israel to be wiped off the maps.

A soldier talks about removing Israeli settlers from Gaza.

Banksy was the British artist who planted \'art\' at gallaries in London and New York.