Israel-Hamas Truce Takes Effect in Gaza

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began Thursday, June 19 in the Gaza Strip, following a year of violence that has killed more than 400 Palestinians and seven Israelis since the militant group seized control of the coastal territory.

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Getting Jimmy Carter

Former American President and current cool-as-shit badass Jimmy Carter has pissed off both Israeli and American administrations after meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal while on his trip to Syria on April 13. Carter also broke with US policy by laying a wreath on the grave of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.

Carter, who has long worked on the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, and throughout the Middle East, has now been made to look like a bad guy by Israel and the United States. This because he wants to bring peace.

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Gays reason for Earthquake: Israeli MP

Oh my!

An Israeli MP has blamed a bunch of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays.

"Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which (the Israeli parliament) Knesset gives legitimacy, to sodomy," said Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, who has suggested that the tremors could be stopped by repelling various "liberal" laws on homosexuality that have been passed by Knesset, in recent years.

Benizri, who in 1999, caused controversy by saying homosexuals are mentally ill, made his comments during a parliamentary debate on earthquake preparedness.

Stopping "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes," would represent a cost-effective method of preventing future earthquakes, he continued.


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