Conflict Blotter

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• 1 Shual // Nov 7, 2007 at 1:38 am

  Charles,

  did you hear something about “rumors that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are working on a second extra-governmental peace agreement along the lines of the 2003 Geneva Accord”?

• 2 Shual // Nov 7, 2007 at 12:28 pm

  Ok, found it: http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=66&docid=2561

• 3 Stephen Levinson // Nov 14, 2007 at 7:41 pm

  what’s your favorite book about the middle east?

• 4 Todd Shishler // Nov 15, 2007 at 12:51 am

  me?

  David Hirst’s The Gun and the Olive Branch (Nation Books) is a great survey history; Fawaz Turki’s The Disinherited (Monthly Review Press) is the best literary narrative of the refugees; Amira Hass’ Drinking the Sea at Gaza (Owl) is a great read from an Israeli journo based in Gaza throughout the 1990s; J Bowyer Bell’s Terror Out of Zion (Transaction) is the best book on Zionist terrorism during the Jewish revolt against the British, fraught with stunning parallels to the intifadas (for more on this, Menachem Begin’s The Revolt is a key text of Zionist militancy); and if you like drawings and cartoons from the frontlines , Joe Sacco’s landmark of comics journalism, Palestine (Fantagraphics) has just been re-released in a beautiful cloth criterion-style edition.

  you asked me, right?

• 5 Stephen Levinson // Nov 15, 2007 at 7:54 pm

  I did ask you! But bookstores are all lined with books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I’d love to read a book about middle-eastern society, current, but not focused so heavily on the conflict.

• 6 EZ // Nov 18, 2007 at 2:31 pm

  Stephen - Try Popular Culture in the Arab World, just republished by the American University in Cairo Press, and written by Andrew Hammond, a Reuters journalist whom I believe Charles knows. The title doesn’t do it justice — it’s also about politics, history, etc.

• 7 arabist // Nov 19, 2007 at 3:42 pm

  Copy EZ on that… Hammond’s book is a great introduction to all kinds of anecdotes and factoids about Arab culture and politics.

• 8 Stephen Levinson // Nov 30, 2007 at 5:54 pm

  thanks! I’ll definitely check it out.

• 9 tsedek // Dec 1, 2007 at 4:39 pm

  shual wie geht’s ?

• 10 Shual // Dec 2, 2007 at 5:29 am

  Very good, Tsedek, Danke der Nachfrage. I am in the middle of a 4-week-holiday and everything is going very well. I visited your blog, but I had nothing to say. I will call you…

• 11 tsedek // Dec 2, 2007 at 1:40 pm

  Eine Ferien ist sehr huebsch, Shual. I wuensche dir eine sehr gute Zeit und viel spass

• 12 Shual // Dec 3, 2007 at 9:25 am

  Ok, Tsedek!

  What is going on in Israel? Haaretz messed up several articles with wrong weekdays. On SUNDAY they reported that something that happend on SATURDAY happend on MONDAY. [:-)))]

  Or the Jerusalem Post today… “Sonic Lynx’s system”, it PHOTONIC Lynx Inc….

  What is going on in Israel? Earthquake-damages?

• 13 tsedek // Dec 3, 2007 at 1:56 pm

  it must be the winter. people get confused when this burning sun isn’t boiling their brains :p

• 14 lally // Dec 6, 2007 at 7:14 pm

  26 Kislev 5768, December 6, ‘07
  Reported

  Journalists Investigated for Visiting Enemy States

  (IsraelNN.com) Police announced Thursday that three Israeli journalists are being investigated by the International Crime Investigation Unit for traveling to enemy countries without permission. The journalists failed to request or receive permits from the Interior Ministry before visiting Lebanon and Syria, an offense punishable by up to four years in prison. The three traveled on foreign passports.

  The journalists have been identified as Lisa Goldman of Channel 10, who visited Lebanon, Tzur Shezaf of Masa Acher, who visited Lebanon, and Ron Ben-Yishai of Yediot Acharonot, who visited Syria. The State Attorney’s office will decide whether or not to indict the three.
  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/137713

  Let’s not have anymore whining about restrictions placed on Israeli journos by “enemy countries” shall we?

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