Photo by A. Daniel Roth A Friday of Protest and Privilege in occupied Hebron. I returned from my interrogation in high spirits. The interrogator was a smooth-armed Druze officer with hazel eyes, a slight double […]
Tag: IDF
IDF “discovers” that Palestinian Susiya is Palestinian Owned (Coincidence?)
This was the article on the front page of Haaretz this morning: You can read the full piece here. It is too early to say what this will mean, in practice, but I think it is […]
Why the IDF mistranslates its own 1 min. video by adding the word “Terrorist” four times.
This morning, I was scanning Twitter, and stumbled across this odd tweet from the IDF Spokesperson. #Balloons are more than just toys. #IDF soldiers use them to stop #terrorist activity on #Gaza border https://t.co/2z1VKhs3na — […]
An Apology, a Non-Recission & some clarifications re: “Symmetry.”
Last Thursday, I wrote a post entitled “Symmetry,” and I began it as follows: ”Can you imagine– scores of armed men, who do whatever their leaders tell them to do, could kidnap or kill whoever […]
The Orange Tree: An Israeli reserve soldier speaks about loss
Guest writer: Elazar Weiss On the 22nd day of your 8th Order* you get 24 hours off. All you want to do is run away, to some small island of sanity. Just for a few […]
Nationalism from a distance, or, how it looks so ugly and absurd from here
I’m heading home tomorrow night, as long as the airport is still functioning. Tonight, we had pasta and wine and in the course of our conversation -which of course sloped political, but not only “our” political, […]
Round Two
Hello Dear Blobbiters, It’s Jesse again. Since we last spoke, Mori has returned to jail, some folks wrote some more stuff about that, and America had an election. Let’s go in reverse order. The election […]
The Blobbit, or There and Back Again
9:37 AM Yo. On my way back to the draft base. How I have missed the breath-taking views of fake grass and barbed wire! The expressions of searing boredom on almost all the olive-clad soldierlets’ […]
Out of Jail
Well. So. Um. Hello there. Top of the virtual morning to you all. I am, as can be ascertained by the fact that I’m blobbing, out of jail for now, although I have to report […]
Update: 10 days, and an interview in Hyper Vocal
We found out recently that Moriel is up North in a military prison, where he will be detained for the next ten days. After that they will presumably release him in order to allow him […]
The Leftern Wall 