Archive for February 25th, 2004

Eyewitness Account of Hague Rally

Regular Israellycool reader Micol has sent me an eyewitness account and photos of the anti-terrorism/pro-Israel rally in the Hague earlier this week.

We met in Brussels at 6:45 to leave for the Hague leaving around 7:15. The bus leaving Antwerp left half an hour later. In total we were 52 people, which is actually dissapointingly little. [...]

Feeling Safe?

With the issue of airline security gaining prominence in the aftermath of September 11, it is good to know that we are in good hands.
A security screener at the Denver airport has been disciplined for sending himself through an X-ray machine.
“I cannot ascribe any sort of motive to why anyone would do this,” said Mike [...]

Pay-Per-Death

According to an article run by WorldNetDaily, PLO Arab terrorists work on commission:
Terror organization Hezbollah rewards organizers of suicide bombings with monetary bonuses for each person killed in the attacks, the head of Israel’s parliamentary Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee said today.
According to a Dow Jones Newswire report, Yuval Steinitz says the Lebanon-based group has [...]

Outing the Jews

Tim Blair posts about an article by activist Kalle Lasn, in which Lasn points out that half of the 50 most influential neocons are Jewish. Lasn laments:
Drawing attention to the Jewishness of the neocons is a tricky game. Anyone who does so can count on automatically being smeared as an anti-Semite.
As Michael Totten [...]

Stress Test

The following picture was used in a case study on stress level at St. Mary’s Hospital. Look at both dolphins jumping out of the water. Both dolphins are identical.
The researchers concluded that a person is under stress if he/she finds both dolphins look different. If there are many differences found between both dolphins, it means [...]

Pardon Me?

Will someone please explain to me the logic of this?
“Israel’s separation fence is threatening Jordanís demographic balance”, said Jordanian ambassador to the UN, Prince Zeid Hussein during deliberations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague. “A new wave of refugees is threatening my country in light of the fence”, he added.
Given [...]

Eek!

I can’t quite figure out which of these Reuters photos is scarier.