Archive for May 23rd, 2004
Misunderstanding
Do you remember the Jame Bennet kidnapping attempt from a few days ago? Well, the PLO Arabs are claiming it was all just one big misunderstanding.
Palestinian Authority officials and journalists denied over the weekend that Palestinians in Rafah had tried to kidnap New York Times correspondent James Bennet.
Bennet said he was talking on a cell [...]
Premature Explodation
Arutz Sheva reports on a suicide bombing that didn’t go exactly according to plan.
A soldier and three Arabs were injured at about 13:45 this afternoon when a PFLP suicide bomber blew himself up at the Bekaíot Checkpoint north of the community of Hamra.
The commander of the checkpoint suspected the 19-year-old Arab male who was approaching [...]
Insensitivity
Something is rotten in the Girl Scouts movement. And I am not talking about the cookies that they sell.
Jewish Girl Scouts in New York, who were warned by the national Girl Scouts against marching in uniform at the annual Israel Day Parade because it would be “insensitive to Arab Scouts,” have at the last minute [...]
Political Infighting
We all know that the Knesset can get rowdy, but it could always be worse.
In March this year, embattled Police Minister Andre Haermeyer asked a member of his Labor Party branch at Deer Park if she could provide him with a tape recording of a branch meeting held four months earlier.
For a minister fending off [...]
