Striking original photography for - and against Israel (Original photo)

Endless Summer (Photo: Dave Bender)

TrekEarth (along with its sister sites, TrekLens, and TrekNature) is a very active, well moderated photographic site for amateur-level to pros wanting to feature their original photography.

Israel is well represented, and updates several times a day. I have posted photos there, as well.

So are the Palestinian territories, as well as our neighboring countries. Although most of the imagery is simply peer-reviewed and enjoyed, many if not most of those about PA area shots are accompanied by agitprop, in a sort of "soft-propaganda" exploitation, unfortunately (no surprise, right?).

So, I recommend clicking over and getting am eyeful of great (...and, umm, almost great) photography - and also learning something of why the basic assumptions against Israel abroad, vis a vis, say, the West Bank and Jerusalem security barrier are so prevalent (read the comments below the pic).

(Cross-posted at Israelity)

Syria warns: Watch out for those wascally Zionists

Ahh, geez... they're onto us. Wait! I know! Let's just tell 'em we're just tourists with the International Solidarity Movement (Zionism? We don' need your stinkin' Zionism, Senor'...).

Huwaida Arraf, an ISM founder was recorded at two national conferences on two occasions admitting the ISM works with terrorist groups like Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and Hamas. She even wrote to the Washington Post admitting as much. Paul LaRudee was deported after it was determined he changed his name to defraud Israeli border authorities to meet and work with groups that even he says might be affiliated with Hamas, he just “doesn’t ask these things.”

American ISM members pose with Palestinian gunmen in West Bank.

And meanwhile, to the north...

"Arab strategist divulges Israeli plan of new immigrations"

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 06:55 PM

DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Chairman of the Arab Center for Strategic Studies Nasser Mohammed said Wednesday that the Zionist International Organization, conspiring with Western governments and the Israeli entity, are managing a new plot aims at attracting a million Jewish emigrant to Palestine in a step to expand its imposed colonial existence in the region by the human factor and the frightening power.

"The Israeli entity's extreme aggression, killing and expanding settlements goes a long with its seeking for imposing normalization and economic cooperation on the Arab countries in order to push them toward a New Middle East determined by the USA, Israel and the Zionist movement as a substitution for the Arab integration," he said.

He clarified that the New Middle East plot aims to fragmentize the Arab regional entities on one hand, and re-distribute the land, humans, wealth and powers according to the new map of the Middle East.

Arab Center held in Damascus a workshop on policies and programs required for directing possible future scenes in of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in 2015.