Someone told me today that another big political writer thinks I’m crazy because I wrote a post about photographing the ghost of my dead cat Syd the Second on my front porch. This all stems from a post I wrote about Pallywood, which some bigwig political writer picked up, and then some other political writer…
The self-inflicted massacre at Shijaiyah
July 31, 2023
I decided to not wait until the Israel Defense Forces released an official statement about what happened in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City on July 30, 2014. You’ll see for yourself that the self-inflicted massacre at Shijaiyah should never have occurred. Hamas is entirely to blame. Every news outlet on the planet is calling this…
There was no father
July 29, 2023
What a day. I woke from a deranged nightmare in which I was teaching the Cardinal Ghost how to make pancakes by screaming the instructions at her. Then I was interviewed by a very nice man named Ali Gharib, who writes for the Nation Institute. After that I learned that a post of mine has…
People need to learn how to read
July 29, 2023
Boy, the crap has hit the fan! First I was interviewed by Ali Gharib of the Nation Institute about my Pallywood posts, and then I learned that David Frum of The Atlantic had tweeted about them, and then I found an uncredited article by BagNews(?) excoriating Frum and me. You can excoriate me. Ali Ghraib…
Do fake victories really count?
July 28, 2023
Yesterday Hamas claimed it had inflicted massive losses on the Israeli Defense Forces. What the Japanese and Germans learned in World War II and the Arabs learned during Operation Iraqi Freedom, claiming fake victories just ends up biting you in the rear end. I remember reading article after article that Arabs all over the Middle…
Fake Gaza sniper video definitively debunked
July 27, 2023
On July 21, 2014, I wrote a post titled “A fake atrocity video from Gaza,” referring to a hoax that accused an Israeli Defense Forces sniper of shooting a Palestinian civilian three times until he died. The video is entirely bogus. Last night an Irish Twitter user named Voodoo Criminology sent me a link to…
Now I’m “truther pondlife”!
July 26, 2023
My posts on Pallywood are making lots of people angry. Today an angry Irishman told me I’m “truther pondlife.” I’ve never actually heard the term “pondlife” used as an insult, and it’s funny to hear the “truther” being used to denigrate those who actually are telling the truth. The word originated in the “9/11 truth…
The four Palestinian boys killed on the beach
July 25, 2023
On July 16, 2014, four Palestinian boys were killed on the beach at the port of Gaza City. They were Mohammed Bakr (aged 9), Ahed Bakr (aged 10), Zakaria Bakr (aged 10), and Mohammed Bakr (aged 11). The four boys were killed close to the Al-Deira Hotel, which was full of journalists, yet not one…