Archive for September 26th, 2004

A Familiar Tale

The excellent Bloghead brings us the story of an Israeli applying for a job, and receiving the following rejection letter:

Thank you for your CV, but in you’re not we’re looking for. The ideal person for us will be first an foremost an illustrator, as our advertisement specified – working with a pen and brush – with [...]

Elvis Costello on Iraq and Israel

As regular readers will know, I am a huge Elvis Costello fan.
Today, I was prompted by the following two unrelated posts to find out what EC’s thoughts are on Iraq and Israel:
1. Arthur’s post on the Boss
2. Harr’s post mentioning that EC has a new album out this week
 
After searching via Google, I could [...]

Wanted: More Like Him

The man on the right is Yunis Owaidah, a PLO Arab who is proud of the fact that he “collaborates” with Israel.  
 
The Jerusalem Post have a fascinating article on him, which I implore you all to read, if you have not already done so. Here is an appetizer:

Owaidah explained that he decided to work with [...]

Le’ Terrorist

Yasser Afatrat perfecting his “French look.” (AP)
 

“I am committed to the destruction of Israel. You know that sh*tty little country with the loutish Prime Minister.”
(Added to The Many Faces of Afatrat)

It’s All in the Spelling

It seems that the whole Cat Stevens brouhaha, in which the singer-turned-Islamic-fundamentalist was deported from the US, was the result of a spelling error.
 
Apparently, he had said that he wanted to “thrill the Jews.”

Bomber Background

As I posted last week, the female suicide bomber who murdered two Israelis, while trying to murder a whole lot more, had a choice. And she chose to do evil.
 
In my post, I quoted Ha’aretz, who said she was from “the Askar refugee camp.” I also wrote the following:

Apologists will claim that she was desperate, [...]