I thought Hamas was an evil part of al-Qaida, but they attacked an al-Qaida linked group trying to set up in Gaza.

For the past several hours an unarmed boat full of civilians, including former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, has been chased, harassed, and physically threatened by 5 or more Israeli war boats. As I write, the ship is 60 miles off the coast of Gaza in international waters. [...]

Various observers have been busy chattering away for the past week that President Obama may be losing ground in the developing U.S./Israel…um, disagreement(?). Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Obama’s impressive Cairo speech with a rather banal address in which he sort of, kinda, half-way accepted the notion of a Palestinian state, but once again refused [...]