Dimona Homicide Bomber Had a Coffee First

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This article certainly deconstructs the myth that starvation is a root cause of Muslim terrorism. From Dimona Homicide Bomber Had a Coffee First: Revital Biton, 29, owner of Revital’s World Class Pizza in Dimona, said Tuesday she wished she had called police when the jittery Arab man came in. Her customer apparently was the bomber who successfully detonated his explosives. “Coffee, quick!” the bearded young man in a red coat demanded, Biton recounted. “He was tense, his eyes darting back and forth with worry….He looked strange to me. I suspected him a bit. Only half an hour later, when I

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Travel Brings Surprises to Gazans

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And travel brings surprises to Egyptians who were in Gaza, and found no one starving. From Travel Brings Surprises to Gazans: A little travel has gone a long way toward changing perceptions in Gaza. Many Gazans who visited Egypt remarked on the discrepancy between their more glamorous image of urban Egypt – derived mostly from movies – and the run-down border region of unpaved streets and small houses they encountered. A trickle of Egyptians also made it into Gaza. Mohammed, an Egyptian truck driver who rented his truck to Palestinians to ferry goods into Gaza, pointed to cars crowding a

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