Ground offensive started

Just a very short post, since I have two Exams tomorrow. I will write more on monday after my last exam.
Because Israel did not succeed to stop the constant rocket with their airstrikes, they just started a ground offensive. Furthermore they called up “ten thousands” reserves, which probably includes hundreds of students from my university. 
In [...]

Happy New Year!!!

Hey everybody, 
I wish you an amazing year 2009!
My New Year’s Eve was really good, we had a great party  and it was good to celebrate all together one last time!
Nothing special happened in the last two days concerning Gaza. Israel is still attacking and threatening with a ground offensive, Gaza is still firing dozens of [...]

Intense…

On Monday, day 3 of the air strikes, I had some intense experiences talking to people.
But first a short overlook over what happened. Israel’s air-strikes went on and destroyed smuggling tunnels from Egypt, a university laboratory used for producing explosives and several private homes of Hamas leaders. Furthermore, they were attacking mosques which were used [...]

Business as Usual

On day 2 of the battle for Gaza, life is going on as if nothing happened. Staying inside to be safe? Not a single Israeli seems to have that idea. After 60years of wars and terror, they seem to be used to the situation. The only not normal thing today are the helicopters flying everywhere.
The [...]

Day 1

 
This was definitly the most thrilling day I ever had sitting at my desk…
Explosions still go on, although  you can still voices shouting from the sites of the riots. A police man got hit by a car, probably by purpose. We got a text (sms) from our university to avoid East Jerusalem (which is where [...]

Riots in front of my window.

Thats distracting from studying… in front of my window, I can see clouds of smoke rising into the sky, police cars and ambulances rushing by, can hear sirenes, and loud bangs which sound like explosions. Thats the first I got in the media half an hour later(which is now).

That was fast…

Ok, my post from 3 hours ago is already outdated.
After rockets today, Israeli began a surprising air attack on Hamas installations, catching Hamas unprepared. The announcement of a cabinet meeting on Sunday, deciding about an attack was obviously a pure bluff.
Hamas reacted and killed one person so far.

Gaza

Unfortunately, I have to talk about politics and war again since Israel is going to begin a major offensive against the Hamas in the Gaza strips in the next 2 days.
For years, the Hamas and other even more extreme groups, which does not recognize the existence of Israel, are shooting missiles at Israeli cities (I wrote [...]

Israeli strike on Iran???

The news coverage of anything that happens in Iran is unbelievable here. No surprise, since Israel is fearing a nuclear Iran which would be the first serious danger for the very existence of Israel since the 1967 war. After that date, Israel (supposedly) developed nuclear weapons and all wars, also the one from 1973,had been [...]

Terror in Mumbai

Of course, the terror attacks in India had a special impact on Israelis. Not only are they struggeled by a history of terror attacks on their own soil, but the terrorists even in India selected Americans, Britains and … Israelis. One of the main targets of the operation had been a Jewish center in Mumbai. [...]