Next time any idiot pulls out the supposed Native American/Palestinian supposed parallel, a comparison of DAPL versus setting natural forest and human habitats on fire should fucking suffice.

(+70k evac'ed, of these a fair number of assisted living/nursing facilities.)

This entry was originally posted at http://hagar-972.dreamwidth.org/2869812. ( Read more... )

Over the past week or so, this country has had extremely low humidity (~<15%) combined with medium-and-over eastern winds.

Over the past few days we've had increasingly worsening wildfires, building up to - as of yesterday - burnt homes and requests for foreign aid. And getting this country to request aid is... something ( Read more... )

I still owe a full post about what's been going on here since Friday, but here, have one highlight ( Read more... )

So remember Douma? The Shin-Beit remembers, too. They'd actually gone and arrested people. Not only that, but they decided to exercise that they don't have to let people see their lawyers - or anyone - before 21da are up if the suspicion-on-record is terrorism, even if that's Jew-on-Arab terrorism ( Read more... )

Where by "comedy show", I mean my country ( Read more... )

Bataclan, main scene of yesterday's multi-scene Islamic State attack in Paris, is openly and loudly Jewish owned and affiliated and the years-long recipient of threats from Islamic groups. There was a France/Germany soccer match in town, and DAESH focused more effort on the Bataclan. You'd think, if they were targeting Classic Europe, it would be ( Read more... )

Stop Children's Suicide Attacks

Not every form of struggle is legimate, and even the struggles of people fighting a cruel occupation have moral limits.

Sayed Kashua | Nov 12, 2015 5:14 PMYou can call them terrorists, you can call them heroes. But they are victims. Victims who are not yet 12 years old. That must be stopped - and no, I’m not ( Read more... )

No Kryptonite, No Batmobile: In Israel, Superheroes Are Shot Down to Earth

The Jewish notion of heroism makes valor accessible.

Yael Shahar | Nov 12, 2015 11:05 AM“Why are there no great Israeli superheroes?” asks Michael Weingrad in a recent post in Mosaic Magazine. It’s a good question. One would think that the current wave of knife attacks and ( Read more... )

Autopsy concluded he died of the 8 bullets found in him, not of the beating he received after. Nevertheless, anyone who could be IDed off the security tape is being investigated by the police; of these, two are Prison Service personnel, of whom one office. The Prison Service made it abundantly clear that administrative and disciplinary measures ( Read more... )

Of two confirmed attackers of Israeli citizenship (the woman at Afula may have been a suicide), both have a parent from either the Bank or the Strip ( Read more... )