“This is the problem with the Filipino decision, you see..They’ve acceded to the demands of terrorists and within a day or so of the Filipinos doing that six more people were taken hostage in Iraq..Unfortunately, these actions have encouraged terrorists to continue these threats so now we are subjected, as the Italians are and the [...]
Here is an op-ed by Ted Lapkin from Thursday’s The Australian, which almost slipped past my radar..but not quite. In it, he questions the agenda of New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark, who recently came down hard on Israel in the wake of the “passport affair.” It makes you wonder about Helen Clark’s priorities. In [...]
Via Arutz Sheva, here is a blog from people who actually live in Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza): Yesha Speaks Out. The blog’s owner, Yoel Ben-Avraham, has this to say about the reason for his turning to blogging: “Since the beginning of the ‘Oslo Process’ there has been a real need to counteract the negative [...]
Summer in Israel means really hot weather..and reality television. Subscribers to Yes satellite are treated to all sorts of guilty pleasures. I am not exactly sure what makes it interesting. Perhaps it is the same human instinct that makes us turn to the side of the road as we pass the scene of a crash. [...]
Yet another Israeli contribution to the world: Upright-walking monkeys. A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only ó aping humans ó after a near death experience, the zoo’s veterinarian said Wednesday. Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv, began walking exclusively on her [...]
Nope. While Afatrat may try to be the Fonz, he can never be anything other than the Fortz. (AFP) (Thank you to Laurence for beating me to the punch!)
“Mr. Big, are you Jewish?” a group of American teenagers shouted to the Sex in the City television star Chris Noth as they saw him getting out of his van at the entrance to the Western Wall Plaza on Tuesday evening. “No, Catholic,” responded Noth. “It doesn’t hurt that much,” joked Tourism Minister Gideon Ezra, [...]
I think Jenna Bush sums up my sentiments with poise and elegance.
The United Nations has long been a lonely place for the state of Israel. In 1947, the international body voted in favour of the partition of Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state. But since then, votes in Israelís favour have been rarer than a pork chop at a barmitzvah. The security council has [...]
“Mr President, allow me to start with a vote of thanks. Thank God that the fate of Israel and of the Jewish people is not decided in this hall” – Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman after the UN vote calling on Israel to abide by the recent ICJ ruling Amen.
