Archive for August 13th, 2003

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SERVING THE PUBLIC
Israel’s answer to the ox, Shimon Peres, has stated that he hopes to still be serving the public for a long time to come.
Opposition leader Shimon Peres, who turns 80 on Saturday, said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that he hopes to still be serving the public when he turns 90. [...]

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MOTHER OF ALL EVILS
The mother of one of yesterday’s suicide bombers wants to kill the terror leader who dispatched her son.
Islam Qteishat, a young recruit of the Islamic Hamas group, exploded at the entrance to the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel, not far from his own home.
With curses, his mother, Yusra, 40, cried out [...]

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THE JEW WHO DEFENDED A TERRORIST
One of the alleged September 11 terrorists has hired a Jewish lawyer.
The second alleged Sept. 11 terrorist to face trial in Germany has been painted as a fanatical Muslim. So his choices for lawyers a woman and a Jew have raised eyebrows.
Abdelghani Mzoudi goes on trial Thursday in the same [...]

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PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT CONTINUES
WorldNetDaily reveals that in the week leading up to yesterday’s suicide bombings in Israel, Palestinian Authority television began rebroadcasting a music video glorifying martyrdom.
The music video [high bandwidth, low] broadcast in the past week depicts “martyrs” joining beautiful maidens in heaven.
The television clip begins with scenes depicting a romance cut short when soldiers [...]

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ANOTHER OFFENSIVE CARTOON
You may recall the anti-Semitic Auth cartoon that reared its ugly head a few weeks ago, and was subsequently found to bear an uncanny similarity to a Nazi cartoon. Today, I found the following cartoon by Moir in the Sydney Morning Herald, which makes no attempt to hide its nazi imagery.

The cartoon has [...]

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AFTERMATH

The two Israelis murdered in yesterday’s suicide bombing were Yechezkel Yekutiel, 43, a repairman from Rosh HaAyin, and Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Elon Moreh. As I write this, two more people are fighting for their lives.
In the meantime, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (whose name actually means “monkey cloud” in Hebrew) issued a predictably equivocal [...]