Archive for December 2nd, 2003

Sharon and Ozzy

Israel News Agency, which reports Israel-related news from world media, have included this headline (Tue Dec 2 11:02:00 UTC+0200 2003) Sharon admits cheating on Ozzy with his guitarist… Which begs the question – how is this Israel-related news? Unless they think that “Sharon” is referring to “Ariel Sharon”. Oh dear, can the media blame him [...]

One Day at a School in France

With the EU shelving a report that concluded that Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups have been behind many anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, due to its inflammatory nature, would it be “inflammatory” of me to draw more attention to the following incident that occurred in France? A Jewish pupil attending a highly rated Paris secondary school was [...]

Shameless Request for Nominations and Money

Nominations for the 2003 Weblog Awards have begun. Someone has already nominated me for Best New Blog, which I appreciate, even if I am a bit surprised. If you enjoy this blog, pop on over to Wizbang and nominate Israellycool as your pick for Best New Blog and/or Ecosystem Crawly Amphibians. I have no hope [...]

Quote of the Day

“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – [...]

From Heroes to Zeros

Here is an interesting, but sad, article dealing with the phenomenom of firefighters leaving their wives for September 11 widows, who in many cases they were assigned to look after.

On Geneva

In case any of you are wondering what my opinion on the Geneva Accord is, I am going to cheat and invoke Krauthammer. And why not? He says it so well. On Monday, a peace agreement will be signed by Israelis and Palestinians. This “Geneva accord” has gotten much attention. And the signing itself will [...]

And Still on the Subject of Geneva

The Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines moderate as: professing or characterized by political or social beliefs that are not extreme Bearing this in mind, I am at a loss to explain why the BBC labels the Israeli Geneva architects as moderates. Here is a document that forgets the last 10 years of Israeli and Middle East [...]