What is happening my Party Plaid People?  Sorry for the incredible incorrigible inconvenient incognito that I have indulged in for several weeks, but what can I say? Sometimes when you fall in cahoots with a couple of Asian hotties while working undercover to infiltrate a top-secret lingerie factory outside Rangoon…well, let’s just say that you lose track of time.

But now I’m back! And lo and behold! All hell has broken loose in the Strip! Now typically when I hear the word ‘strip’ it has nothing but positive connotations in my experience abroad.  But when the strip in question is the Gaza Strip, we’re talking about a whole different type of being fucked.  I have the distinct feeling that most Americans don’t have an utter clue about the importance of the events in Palestine in the last two weeks, and we need to change that. 

Some serious shit has gone done there—and I mean history-altering type of shit. Everything in the Arab-Israeli dispute, the ‘two-state solution’, and peace in the Middle East is going to be different from here on out. Would you like to know more? Would you like to be among the 1% of Americans that actually know what the hell is going on in this situation? Then tune in for the next several days my friends and I’ll do my best to clue you in.  Let’s do a Plaid Avenger first: a multi-day blog on a single subject. How about a line-up that looks like this:

Day 1: Who the hell is Hamas?

Day 2: What the fuck is Fatah?

Day 3: When did all this shit go down: a timeline

Day 4: Where the hell are these places we’re talking about? Territory matters!

Day 5: Why is the ‘2-state solution’ now totally tanked?

Day 6: Wrap-up; likely scenarios and what outside forces will do.

Damn!  The who-what-when-where-and why of current events in Palestine.  That is too damn good!  Now I hope I can deliver the goods.  Sound good to you folks? Drop me a line in the comments section—seriously.  In fact, I think from now on this blog should only be written to answer specific questions or approach specific current events posed in the comments or emailed directly to me. 

If you build it, they will come.  If you ask it, it shall be written. That is my inebriated pledge to you, my friends.

Shit, now I’ve got to sleep off this hangover and figure out Hamas. I must be out of my mind. Check this out while you wait:

Mid-East leaders gather at summit

Haniya rejects Israel-Arab summit

Israel and U.S. agree on Palestinian approach