2016-03-19 18:53
One of my colleagues sent me a message that she thought that I was being negative about Egypt and Egyptians. Come on?! Me?! Never! Okay, you got me, but not this time… Read More
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A blog about the Middle East, especially the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Middle East, terrorism, non-violence, Jerusalem
2016-03-19 18:53
Lesson Three: Message to the Muslim world...even those of us non-Muslims that normally defend the Muslim world are getting tired of idiocy."...before demanding an apology from our president… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
If you go back in my posts, you'll find a post entitled, The Tame Version! It was written during the riots over the cartoons from the Danish cartoonist. I made a joke about vetti… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Lesson Two: ....no law respecting the establishment of religion.... (The Establishment Clause, The United States Constitution, Amendment I)All praise to the Founding Fathers and framers of t… Read More
2014-09-01 17:46
So...after getting sent back to Gaza, the USAID decided that the NGO that I was working for, in an attempt to help revitalize the school (AISG), was not doing a good enough job administrativ… Read More
2014-09-01 17:44
I'm back in Egypt and dealing with the fallout of the Egyptian Revolution (2.0). Once again, the rest of the world seems not to get the illogic of this place, while at the same time, E… Read More
2014-09-01 17:42
I've said that I'm ending this blog so many times, that I've decided to stop throwing dirt on its grave. Although I am now out of the region, I know myself well enough to know that I'l… Read More
2012-05-15 07:54
One of the things that I'm constantly hearing from my right leaning friends, is that I don't love my country. They develop that opinion because of the way that I'm always calling the U… Read More
2012-04-26 15:19
"Drinking the Kool-Aid" - is a metaphor commonly used in the United States and Canada that refers to a person or group's unquestioning belief, argument, or phil… Read More
2012-04-23 17:37
How important is it that you understand the rest of the world? How important is it that you question any information that is just handed to you? How important is it that you neve… Read More
2012-04-22 16:25
I'm standing in the office and one of the students comes in to get permission to go to the doctor's office. He tells the secretary that his mother has told him that if he doesn't feel goo… Read More
2012-04-22 11:24
Several of the westerners that work in Gaza have mentioned the same thing. It is amazing to us how the Israelis, who are so efficient in all other aspects of their country, could be so… Read More
2012-04-22 10:19
It's been 35 years since Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David Accords, their landmark treaty that ended 30 years of official hostility between the two countries. President Anwar Sada… Read More
2012-04-22 09:08
I'm back in Gaza again for the redux. A chance arose for me to return to work with the student of Gaza. This time I wouldn't be teaching, but working with the school in order to… Read More
2009-11-24 06:45
On January 2, 2009, The American International School in Gaza was destroyed by the IDF during its winter campaign against Hamas. Yet the school survives. They are not meeting in another lo… Read More
2007-04-24 08:10
If you haven't heard, even though the western teachers are no longer in Gaza, the school is still targeted because of American in its name. On Saturday morning, April 21, barely more than a… Read More
2006-10-04 09:52
Let the games begin again. I debated with myself long and hard about whether I should start another blog, especially since I am still so involved in writing about Gaza. The answer finally ca… Read More
2006-04-13 04:02
Well folks, thats about it. I'm back in the United States. I'm sure that I'll give a few updates here as I write the book. Hopefully, those of you who I've heard from over the months will… Read More
2006-04-03 14:26
For those of you that have been wondering, I am currently safe and enjoying (not) refugee status in Cairo, Egypt. The future of the school is still very much in doubt. As an American, the pr… Read More
2006-03-21 14:59
Here we go again, more evidence that idiocy reigns supreme. Israelis security caught ten men in a van along with the explosives destined for a suicide bombing. (Click here for the full sto… Read More
2006-03-18 23:24
Please read the answer to the comment I left for sp in the last blog entry. There are a lot of things that I'm feeling right now. There are a lot of things that I want to put here right no… Read More
2006-03-18 18:11
Well blog readers, we are out of Gaza and no one knows when we will be going back in. There has been a mass exodus of westerners out of the Strip because of what has happened. Along with t… Read More
2006-03-01 08:52
BOOM!!! And again I say, BOOM!!!Stop the madness! Read More
2006-02-28 22:08
Never forget the importance of cookies!! After over a month, imprisoned in our apartments, let out ONLY with an escort, it is the small things, the minute things, that we find when we’… Read More
2006-02-28 21:56
The Israelis call it Operation Northern Thunder. Amazing how that name is so apropos to what it actually sounded like when their missiles, mortars or tank shells hit the ground near the sch… Read More
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