TM of Jewlicious takes smugness to a new level, with this post from today: Media badmouths settlers again What are we going to do? Some of those poor settlers are suffering from non-stop attacks on their character, their true intentions with respect to the pullout plan, their attacks on the current PM of Israel and [...]
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has been consoled by Sharon after hurting himself. No, not that Sharon. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom slipped while stepping off the runway in Switzerland Saturday fracturing two ribs, but was compensated by a visit from actress Sharon Stone. Shalom tripped on the ice-covered sidewalk after stepping off a plane [...]
Alan Abbey of YnetNews has contacted me, graciously listening to what I have to say about the Ynet blog. Regarding complaints about the absence of a trackback feature, Alan writes: We also will add additional blogging technology soon. Remember – the site is beta, and we wanted to establish the blog as a presence [...]
US comedian Jamie Kennedy apparently does not have a sense of humor when it comes to Sydneysiders. American comedian Jamie Kennedy has given the people of Sydney a big thumbs down. Kennedy spent five months in Sydney last year shooting the action-comedy, Son of the Mask, at Fox Studios and, while promoting the film in [...]
When I read this over a month ago, I couldn’t believe someone could be so stupid as to place super glue next to eye drops in the refrigerator, and then glue their eyes shut. But apparently there is a whole world of such stupid people. An elderly Thai monk accidently glued his eyes shut [...]
One reason why the Gaza disengagement plan is a bad idea: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan is a victory for the Palestinian people, the Palestinian terror group Hamas said. In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri called the planned Israeli pullout “a result of the heroic resistance of our people.” One reason why the prisoner [...]
Have you ever watched a television show and afterwards felt like you just wasted the last few hours of your life? This is exactly how I felt after watching the torturous (not tortuous) grand finale of The Ambassador last night. For a start, at over two and half hours, it was already going to [...]
Ever noticed how the foreign press photographers have a way of expressing their biases through their pictures? For instance, today Israeli Finance Minister and former Prime Minister ’Bibi’ Netanyahu voted against evacuating communities in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. For his efforts, he gets this sinister photo.
Welcome to Ynet News in English. The Hebrew version is already Israel’s largest news site. Whether or not this English version can become the largest Israel news site in English remains to be seen. But it shouldn’t have any trouble surpassing the rather lame Jerusalem Post website (I am loathe to admit that Ha’aretz has [...]
Pain a Hitler moustache on Spanish Crown Prince Felipe, and you end up with Syrian ‘Dorktator’* Bashar al-Assad * Thanks to Meryl Yourish for the apt term
