Gun O'Clock

Japan is awesome. That is all.

Educate Yourself

While I won't pretend like I have any semblance of a true understanding of all the complexity that is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I've been trying to shore up my knowledge in the last while and found some useful links. I feel these first two link cover some basic facts that need to be common knowledge for anyone discussing this conflict. The last piece is an opinion piece in which the author asserts the futility of this current surge by Israel to try and re-assert itself after loosing face in the 2006 Lebanon conflict with Hezbollah. This sentiment has been expressed by many others. The message here is, educate thyself, 'cause knowledge is power!

Timeline: Israel, the Gaza Strip and Hamas

What You Don’t Know About Gaza

Fighting to Preserve a Myth

Once again, Boston.com's amazing online photo Gallery The Big Picture has stunning photos from the associated press with regard to this current iteration of the conflict.