Author Archives: Peter Drubetskoy

What do Palestinians want?? 2/3 say Rockets must stop. 3/5 say Hamas should recognize Israel

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Peter Drubetskoy

Sky Redoubt writes: This is rather interesting: I am translating more or less verbatim from a lefty blog in Hebrew. A post from 01/28/09 by Eyal Niv entitled “What do the Palestinians Want?”. What do the Palestinians want? It’s best…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 12 Comments

Tale of a family split between Israel and Gaza, and now dismembered

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Peter Drubetskoy

Sky Redoubt translates this heartbreaking passage from Haaretz Hebrew edition (more or less literal, abridged): Galit Popok [female] was married to Rama Kadara, a Palestinian from Gaza, and lived with him and their 6 children in Natzrat Elit [a mostly…
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Lullaby for Israeli pilots–Numu numu

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Peter Drubetskoy

Watch this. It is a beautiful video called Numu Numu, an Israeli lullaby, set to pictures of Israeli might and Palestinian destruction. Found on a blog of Hadash supporters (an Arab-Jewish party), it is old but perfect for now. The…
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To explain Hamas rockets, Haaretz describes ethnic cleansing of Majdl (Ashkelon) in 1953!!

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Peter Drubetskoy

Skyredoubt translated portions of a piece in Hebrew by Benny Tziper, in Haaretz, only Haaretz, and posted it on his flickr site. [...]A nice man was there at the entrance to the museum, an invalid of IDF from the Yom…
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Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 19 Comments

the Holocaust belongs to humanity

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Peter Drubetskoy

At the emergency demonstration in NY yesterday… photos by Sky Redoubt
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A little hope: a Golanchik marvels at his former commander’s transformation re Gaza

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Peter Drubetskoy

As I have to remind myself and readers, I’ve spent all of 10 days in Israel, and sometimes dehumanize the Israeli experience. Here’s a note from someone who’s spent more time on-the-ground, my friend Peter Drubetskoy, a veteran of the…
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Posted on December 8, 2008 by Peter Drubetskoy

Another Drubetskoy picture from his picture a week thing. To me this one is about the comedy of history. It’s a deeply ironical foto of the museum/ warehouse of history, with all its glorious phases locked away forever like bric-a-brac,…
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