YangYong said...

YangYong at 11:41 PM JST - 9th January

My eyes opened wide with horrific expectation as I read the sentence, ...in the bathtub filled with but I soon slumbered back into inertia as I read water and not sand.

Posted in Woman found dead in love hotel in Shibuya at 11:41 PM JST - 9th January
YangYong at 08:06 PM JST - 9th January

Muscles: You may well have read 'Plan D', maybe even beyond its opening, but you failed to put it into context; how it was implemented and how its implementation in turn affected the people it was directed against. It's like reading the Declaration of Independence in isolation and not acknowledging…

Posted in Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket strike at 08:06 PM JST - 9th January
YangYong at 10:01 PM JST - 8th January

How are we expected to take you seriously with that 'Quickly... I did read it' and then give a snippet of a first opening paragraph with no RESPECTED interpretation or analysis?

Moderator: Readers, please keep your comments focused on what is in the story.

Posted in Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket strike at 10:01 PM JST - 8th January
YangYong at 09:06 PM JST - 8th January

ideology

Posted in Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket strike at 09:06 PM JST - 8th January
YangYong at 08:54 PM JST - 8th January

...so the likes of Mad have their mythology, we on the other hand, have truth and the history of fact, event and players in the acts; it is written to be read. S0 we all should know that the Palestinians have a reasonable grievance. The hard line nationalist, fascists even,…

Posted in Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket strike at 08:54 PM JST - 8th January
YangYong at 10:26 PM JST - 7th January

Just now: A truce plan has been accepted. Told you the window for military action had closed.

Posted in Deepening Israeli assault on Hamas divides Arab world at 10:26 PM JST - 7th January
YangYong at 08:43 PM JST - 7th January

Is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict rooted in mindless Arab anti-Semitism or Zionism’s insistence that a Jewish state must be created in Palestine, despite the fact that for over 1,300 years it had been overwhelmingly inhabited by Arabs, who in the twentieth century sought political independence in --and sovereignty over-- their homeland?

Posted in Deepening Israeli assault on Hamas divides Arab world at 08:43 PM JST - 7th January
YangYong at 08:00 PM JST - 7th January

Lots of thinking going on by our resident experts AIN and Mad et al, of course they know more than an someone who was an Israeli soldier, is an historian and commentator, of COURSE they... don't. Plus, of course the piece has subjective bias hence is tempered with 'THINK', you…

Posted in Deepening Israeli assault on Hamas divides Arab world at 08:00 PM JST - 7th January
YangYong at 07:26 PM JST - 7th January

The diplomatic clock has caught up with the military one. The window is closed.

Posted in Deepening Israeli assault on Hamas divides Arab world at 07:26 PM JST - 7th January
YangYong at 05:09 PM JST - 7th January

You're sounding like a certain administration connecting al-Qaida to Iraq. They do not hold a position of authority within Hamas. That is sheer --dangerous-- speculation on your part; and they are not part of the political apparatus of the Palestinians but if they became that, if they filled the vacuum:…

Posted in Gaza truce proposed after Israeli shell kills 30 near U.N. school at 05:09 PM JST - 7th January