Archive for August 17th, 2003
Warning: For Cricket Fans Only
What is it with Australian cricketers and sordid telephone relationships? First, the married Shane Warne has been accused of pestering a South African woman (with a very Jewish-sounding name) raunchy SMS messages, after allegedly fooling around with her. This is of course, not the first time Shane has apparently used a phone for his own [...]
Humanitarians
More like idiotarians.
Here is a letter from an International Solidarity Movement activist called Emma, as posted on the ISM yahoo group:
Two days ago, at our regular English lessons with high school students in Rafah, a conversation developed surrounding the word ‘violence.’ There was a question asked about Palestinian violence. The students refused the question based [...]
Outranked
In a report to be released on Monday, Israel is only ranked as the second most likely of 186 countries to be the target of a terrorist attack within the next 12 months, behind Columbia. United States is only ranked fourth. And North Korea is only in 186th place because its “repressive state has basically [...]
Get the Message?
Israel has its own unique way to remind Syrian president Bashir Assad who’s boss.
Following last week’s Hizbullah shelling in the North, the Israel Air Force dispatched fighter jets to Syria that buzzed the palace of Syrian President Bashir Assad in a warning to rein in Hizbullah, Channel 1 reported Friday night.
The warplanes reportedly swooped in [...]
Sha’ath Up!
Humpty Dumpty lookalike Palestinian External Affairs Minister Nabil Sha’ath is insisting on the so-called palestinian right of return. This despite only 10% of palestinians demanding it.
Sha’ath described the Palestinian refugee right of a return as “an integral part of the Arab peace initiative, which is one of the reference points in the road map” – [...]
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IDI DIES (AT LAST)
After lapsing in to a coma almost a month ago and then being on the road to recovery, Idi Amin is now on the express elevator to hell.
This after spending the past decade living with four wives in Saudi Arabia.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a Ugandan-Asian newspaper columnist whose family was among those Amin expelled, [...]
