Tag: Gaza crisis

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Following the kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teenagers on a Jews-only road in the West Bank, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza has heated up. The West Bank is administered by Fatah, an old-style secular, socialist, Arab nationalist party. Gaza is run by the Islamist group Hamas. Hamas transitioned from a minor militant/charitable group to the most popular group following the withdrawal of settlers and the simultaneous targeted killing of the cleric who founded Hamas. (more…)

Proruský separatista údajně držící hračku mrtvého dítěte jako „trofej“

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… nás může všechny zabít.

Je s podivem, co všechno víme o letu 17 malajských aerolinek, který se v pátek zřítil na východě Ukrajiny. Víme, že všech 298 lidí na palubě – a čtyři holubi, dva psi a pět dalších ptáků, z nichž je přinejmenším jeden páv a jedno kuře – zahynulo.

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“I sympathize with the Palestinians, because I too live under Zionist occupation.” — Greg Johnson

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Russian separatist in Ukraine holding stuffed toy of one of the 80 children killed on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17

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Czech translation here

. . . could kill us all.

It is astonishing what we do know about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine on Friday. We know that that all 298 humans on board — plus 2 dogs, 4 pigeons, and 5 other birds including at least 1 peacock and at least 1 chicken — were killed.

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