Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Operation Protective Edge’

The four Palestinian boys killed on the beach

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…

 

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Proud to make your shit list, Warrior Princess

My posts “A fake atrocity video from Gaza” and “More Palestinian fakery” have drawn the attention of the virulently mentally ill. One goes by the Twitter handle of “Warrior Princess.” I knew I’d heard the name before, but I couldn’t remember where. Then it came to me. Xena: Warrior Princess, a fantasy TV Series from…

 

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More Palestinian Fakery

On July 21, 2014, I wrote a post titled “A fake atrocity video from Gaza.” Several people contacted me, either trying to convince me that I was wrong or that even if this particular video was staged, it represented a greater truth. “Fake but accurate” is the phrase, dating from the 2004 forged Texas Air…

 

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A fake atrocity video from Gaza

Hooray for Pallywood! If you’re unfamiliar with the term, Pallywood refers to the fraudulent videos that the Palestinians and their supporters put out to try and convince the world that Israel is the new Third Reich. Today the International Solidarity Movement released the most blatantly phony footage I’ve ever seen. A child could deconstruct this…

 

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Israel is not the problem

Disclaimer: I’m a hugely biased observer. I support Israel wholeheartedly. Does that mean I agree with everything she does? No. But I don’t agree 100 percent with what any nation—including my own—does. Still, objectively speaking, Israel is not the problem. I’m going to try and convince you of that. The reason I admire the Israelis…

 

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A tale of two wars

By now you’ve probably heard that Russian separatists in the Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a surface-to-air missile (SAM). You may also have heard that Israel launched a ground invasion into Gaza. This is a tale of two wars and how people react so differently to them. The Ukrainian civil war has…

 

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Caffeine withdrawal makes you stupid

I can’t think right now. All I can do is sit and stare blankly. Caffeine withdrawal makes you stupid. Throw in stress and rotational vertigo attacks, and you have complete mental disability. Writing is beyond my capabilities right now, so we’ll go audio-visual. I took this photo a few hours ago, as I wandered aimlessly…

 

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