The PLO Arab terrorists are at it again, this time murdering a 3-year-old child and 50-year-old man after firing two Qassam rockets at Sderot. At least 9 people were also injured. One of the rockets – fired by Palestinians militants in the Gaza Strip – landed close to a kindergarten in the Neveh Eshkol neighborhood, [...]
A Saudi man has divorced his wife for the unforgiveable sin of phoning in to a talk show. A Saudi has divorced his wife for participating in a television programme by telephone when he had previously warned her against phoning in to talk shows, a newspaper has reported. Khadija F. Fares, a 31-year-old Saudi woman, [...]
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The Media Line reports: A joint venture between the American company Whizsoft and the Israeli firm Atlas is developing a wireless polygraph, which will be able to identify if a person is telling the truth or lying, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. The project has received a grant of $750,000 from the U.S. Homeland [...]
“We couldn’t be the best forever” – French soccer player Bixente Lizarazu being philosophical after his side’s exit from Euro 2004. Good to see that the French are humble in defeat.
According to Fiddish’s Steven I. Weiss, what is a quality J-blog? The answer is this one. Let’s see..we have rubbishing fundamental beliefs of the Jewish religion: Never missing an opportunity to make Orthodox Jews look like fundamentalist maniacs, Aish HaTorah provides this lovely article on “The Spiritual Roots of Anti-Semitism,” citing antisemitism as God’s punishment [...]
The Jerusalem Post reports: Lamenting the divisions in the Arab world, Lebanon’s prime minister on Thursday urged Arab nations to follow Europe’s lead and band together in a common market to face future challenges, such as unemployment. In an opening speech to the 10th Arab Investment and Capital Markets conference in Beirut, Prime Minister Rafik [...]
I fully support Israel building the security fence around Ariel. The aim of the fence is to minimize the number of terrorist infiltrations into Israel. And while Ariel is beyond the “Green Line”, it should be afforded this protection. Israel has always stated that she will not retreat to the 1967 “Green Line”, but rather [...]
Saddam Hussein’s lawyer has accused US soldiers of abusing his client, drawing comparisons between his treatment and the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. A lawyer for Saddam Hussein has accused the former Iraqi dictator’s American captors of abusing him, citing a “capture card” that described his condition as “slightly wounded.” A senior Pentagon official in [...]
“Liar!”: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday rejected former US president Bill Clinton’s assertion, made in his new book, that he had been prepared to give up the Golan Heights. Netanyahu responded that Clinton’s version of events is incorrect, and that the Americans were never involved in any stage of the secret contacts between him and [...]
