It was just after seven in the morning in Israel and most of the country was quiet, closed down for a religious holiday. News was coming through of rockets from Gaza so I checked in with my family on Whatsapp to see if everyone was okay. The sirens in Tel Aviv were lasting a lot […]
A recent tweet asked: What sort of murderous savages parade the body of a dead woman through the streets? The answer is Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and current client of fellow-butchers in Tehran – a Third Reich admiring theocratic fascist army that after coming to power in Gaza instantly turned it into […]
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