The new Zionist myth?

Following up from a previous post, one of many interviews with a solider who participated in Operation Cast Lead:

What does it mean when the state itself sanctions this kind of cosmic-scale, theological rationale for destruction? Is this the 21st century? If so, maybe it’s time for some new mythologies, some new [...]

Sitting here, you and I | خنك آن دم كه نشستيم

A first attempt at translating the work of Mowlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi ‘Rumi’ (in memory of my late grandfather, who would not have understood, but who i loved, and who loved me, nonetheless):

خنك آن دم كه نشستيم در ايوان من و تو
به دو نقش و به دو صورت به يكى جان من و تو
رنگ باغ [...]

Haaretz calls IDF friendly-fire deaths ‘the worst incident’ in Gaza thus far (but only in Hebrew)

A friend of mine who used to work at Haaretz — Israel’s major ‘left-leaning’ paper — recently alerted me to the following excerpt from an article posted on the media outlet’s Hebrew-language website:

שלושת החיילים מגדוד 13 של חטיבת גולני, נהרגו אתמול בתקרית החמורה ביותר ברצועת עזה מאז החל מבצע “עופרת יצוקה” לפני עשרה ימים

…via this [...]