Archive for February 26th, 2006

I Recognize

Reuters reports:
Hamas’s prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday denied he had suggested the Palestinian Islamist group might one day recognize Israel, saying there was only a possibility of achieving a long-term truce.
Hamas chose Haniyeh, a 43-year-old Gazan viewed by many Palestinians as a pragmatist, as the new prime minister after its election victory on January [...]

Today I Almost Died

Today I almost died.
 
I have been ill for the past few days, and was still feeling under the weather when I woke up this morning. For a few minutes, I debated myself on the topic “Shall I go to work today?”, and me #2 convinced me #1 that I needed to come to work and [...]

Try Explaining a ‘Googly’ to Him

It seems that Dubya might have great taste in sports:

US President George W Bush said this week “I’m a cricket match person” – and he’ll have a chance to show it at a cricket event during his brief upcoming trip to Pakistan.
 
Details were hard to come by, but White House aides said on Friday that [...]

Hammertime!

MC Hammer has a blog (hat tip: Egyptian Sandmonkey).
I just wish he would blog more about Israel, given his pro-Israel leanings.

Copacabanannibal

There’s no accounting for some people’s taste:
A convicted German cannibal wants to make Barry Manilow, Hugh Grant, Robbie Williams And Liam Gallagher his next victims.
Armin Meiwes is currently serving an eight and a half year jail sentence for eating the dead body of Bernd Juergen, a 43-year-old engineer he met on the internet in 2004.
Now [...]

Mahmoud Wants a Hand

The Israeli response to this latest chutzpah from neo palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas should be “Talk to the hand.”
Speaking of which..

“I’m no-one’s puppet, am I Mr Hand?”

Israel Video Blog

Shame on me for not mentioning this earlier, but the Israeli Consulate in New York launched an online video blog over a week ago.
The site received more than 100,000 hits on its first day, which places it slightly above Israellycool on the traffic rankings.*
Thank you to Meryl for reminding me about this site. She posts:
Calling [...]

Brotherly Love

Here’s a story that has been totally overlooked by the mainstream media.
Extremists are threatening to blow up the Palestinian Bible Society in the Gaza Strip if the people who work there do not close up shop and abandon their ministry by the end of February, a Christian source told Cybercast News Service.
The threat appears to [...]