Archive for March 7th, 2005

Checkmate

It is not just Abu Hamza who is having troubles in the lock-up: Chess grand master Bobby Fischer was placed in solitary confinement at a Japanese immigration detention center for four days after a fracas with guards at breakfast, his fiancee and ex-bodyguard said Monday.   The former world chess champion is fighting deportation from Japan [...]

Not the Most Popular Prisoner

And now for today’s “feel-good” story (hat tip: Bloghead): Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, charged in Britain with 16 offences including incitement to murder Jews, has been attacked by a fellow detainee in the high security Belmarsh prison, The Sun daily reported on Monday.   “It was a violent physical incident involving another inmate [...]

Goodwill

With Israel ready to hand over control of Tulkarem to the PLO Arabs, in yet another “goodwill gesture” (after releasing 500 PLO Arab terrorists), the PLO Arabs have a few “goodwill gestures” of their own.   Like this ‘surprise party’ for our soldiers: Palestinian gunmen wounded two members of the Border Police, one seriously and [...]

Russ vs Osama

One can only assume that Osama bin Laden is not a huge fan of Gladiator. Actor Russell Crowe was the target of an al-Qaeda kidnapping plot in 2001 and has had FBI protection since.   The Oscar winner was first contacted by the FBI in 2001 and warned of the threat, The Daily Telegraph newspaper [...]

Jewish Cuisine

Mmmm..kosher deli food: check out these advertising ideas for Bernstein’s Deli.   Warning: Not for the Jewish humor impaired.         (taken from here)

Reasons to Hate the French #23501

..as if we don’t have enough already.. Israel is accusing a French aid organization, as well as a French national, of assisting the Hamas terror organization, according to Agence France-Presse.   According to the French new agency’s report, the IDF recovered documents indicating that the French group transferred funds to banks in Ramallah and assisted [...]

More UNseemly Behavior

Some UN peacekeepers take the words “UN Aid” too literally (or should that be UN AIDS?) Although U.N. peacekeepers were dispatched to the Congo to keep order and improve the lives of Congolese, some leave behind disease and heartbreak.   Juliette, a Congolese woman who had a relationship with a peacekeeper, is the mother of one [...]

Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back

TV host Jay Leno has not let Michael Jackson’s trial get in the way of a good joke..or two. TV host Jay Leno drafted in a substitute to tell his jokes about Michael Jackson because a gag order prevents him telling them himself. Leno brought in Everybody Loves Raymond star Brad Garrett to read the [...]

Israeli Response to Red Ken

The Israeli cabinet has now weighed in on the latest tirade by London Major Ken Livingstone. The response? A cabinet resolution expressing outrage, coupled with a nice little jab aimed at Livingstone’s oversized ego. The cabinet expressed its “outrage” Sunday over what it called London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s “anti-Semitic” remarks “against both Israel and Prime [...]

Hearing the Truth from a Lebanese Woman

If you read one article today, let it be this one (reprinted below). A Lebanese-born woman who later lived in Israel told a Columbia University forum today the Muslim Arab world’s hatred of the Jewish state is blinding it to reason.   Brigitte Gabriel, founder of American Congress for Truth, recalled being raised on “a [...]