I spoke with a new minister in Abbas’ emergency government of technocrats yesterday. Transportation Minister Mashhour Abu Daka is a balding and bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from the Imperial College in London. Like most of the newly appointed government in Ramallah he is apolitical and little known to most Palestinians.
The thrust of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Gaza'
A fool’s errand
June 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas · Palestinian · Politics · Gaza
Gaza developments
June 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
The Army of Islam and other fringe radical groups in Gaza are reportedly seizing on Hamas’ rise to power to exploit their own agendas. Last week there was an attack on a church school in Gaza City in which the attackers decapitated Jesus on the crucifix, burnt icons, and looted computers. Today there were reports […]
Fleeing Gaza
June 17th, 2007 · 98 Comments
The Erez crossing is a bit of a mess. Swarms of Palestinians are waiting to leave amassing just before the Israeli controlled elctronic gate that is about two-thirds of the way through the half-kilometer long cement corridor connecting Gaza to Israel. There are also dozens of kids milling about looting what little scrap metal and […]