*sigh* The riots in J-m haven't really died down since summer - the light rail is being stoned daily, among other things - and they took a sharp uptick after yesterday's events. It's pretty much an Actual Intifada in J-m, and though the police has been doing pretty good at keeping the flames low, I don't think this one's going back in the bottle ( Read more... )

* So that ended with 1 dead firefighter and some 20-30 injured civilians, mostly very lightly. (Nausea and headaches, none of the really bad things ammonia can do.) They ended up shutting down a radius of 2.5km. (Not evac'ing; it was decided that evac will actually put people at a greater risk.) Given the potential harm on this one, it was ( Read more... )

* Another 72hr ceasefire kicked in at midnight. Once again you can tell Hamas means it because they kicked up the fire just before.

* More Palestinians killed in the Bank every day. I am not okay with this. (Link)

* In East Jerusalem, anti-Jew violence about doubled over the past month, and also increased in severity. (Link* Also in Jerusalem, ( Read more... )

It appears we are having a ceasefire ( Read more... )

* Last night there were massive marches and riots in the West Bank, going on J-m. This resulted in 2 dead Palestinians and 27 injured cops, which means the police is likely to have no patient for shit at all today. (Reminder: today is Friday, Muslim holy day, and usually Muslim riot day ( Read more... )

* Two more were killed yesterday. Current total, 27 soldiers, 2 civilians.

* So we now have a badly-wounded lt.col. (Egoz commander) to go with the Golani brigadier. (Welcome to Israeli officer casualty rate: because our officers are on the fucking front, doing leadership from where it's supposed to be done, in front of their troops ( Read more... )

So as I pretty much expected, once Hammas targeted anything more than 20km from the Strip an op was called. The naming is making me eyeroll, because it's Steady Rock in Hebrew (Tzuk Eitan) and Protective Edge in English ( Read more... )

LC: I do wonder what the various foreign bodies who're up in arms about the murder of the Arab boy will do if the investigation concludes that he was killed by his friends because he was gay.
Me: That's easy. They'll see we're lying to tarnish his memory, of course. It would be easier to like the Palestinians if they weren't malicious lying ( Read more... )

*looks at news* Talk about the cleanup proceeding to Nablus and Bethlehem and the phrase "stable cleaning" actually used... and no words on the reason for this show ( Read more... )

* The IDF says that was a perfectly standard door-blowing charge, thanks, not an AT rocket, who do you think they are? (There were years were AT rockets would've happened. Then we learned better. Also shit got less desperate. Do not remind me of spring '02, spring '02 was Actually That Bad ( Read more... )