Archive for July 5th, 2004
Quote of the Day
“The road map calls for the unification of the security services. We surmounted this obstacle. It called for striking and uprooting the organizations. We surmounted this obstacle, too…”
– ‘Moderate’ ex PLO Arab Puppet Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in his resignation speech to the PLO Arab Parliament, September 2003
Bibispiration
From the Strange But True department:
When it comes to lashing out at Israel, Arab leaders are well-practiced.
Yet this custom was broken when Iraq’s new president, Ghazi al-Yawer, admitted that Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu inspired him to pursue a career in politics, in an exclusive interview with the Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published on Wednesday.
Yawer told [...]
Gallery of Fools
Some people just never learn.
The Flinders Street gallery that was embroiled in controversy after exhibiting an art work deemed anti-Semitic finds itself at the centre of another cultural imbroglio. In May, Melbourne’s Jewish community was outraged by an installation at the 24seven gallery featuring the Israeli flag superimposed with questionable statistics about the plight of [...]
