Meanwhile, elsewhere in Italy, the Swedes are acting positively French. The Swedish government has pulled out of an international military exercise in Italy at short notice, after discovering that the Israeli air force was due to take part, local media reported on Wednesday. The F17 Blekinge Wing, which was to have taken part in the [...]
In Italy, nothing quite commemorates the victory against fascism like….trampling and burning Israeli flags. The Vatican newspaper on Wednesday called the trampling and burning of Israeli flags during a march in Milan a “disgusting” offense to all Jews. In a news article about the march, the L’Osservatore Romano newspaper called the anti-Israel protests a “serious [...]
Introducing Gadafy: the Opera. Can an opera about the Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafy really be a good idea? There are precedents: in John Adams’ Nixon in China, for instance, Mao duets with the American president. Evita’s husband was a despot. Hitler is name-checked in Mel Brooks’s The Producers. And let’s not forget Trey Parker’s film [...]
Who said being a magician was a useless profession? He made 13 people disappear into thin air during his Kravis Center show Sunday night, but magician David Copperfield couldn’t duplicate the feat with armed teens who robbed him and two women near the venue two hours later. No one was injured in the incident. [...]
Look’s like our favorite police squad has been watching too many Shaft movies. And speaking of Shaft, it looks like one of these policemen has a bit of a complex about his “size.” Can you guess which one it is?
You can add Andy Garcia’s name to my list of Hollywood celebrities with their heads screwed on correctly. This according to the IMDB’s movie news: Movie star Andy Garcia’s controversial new movie The Lost City has been banned in parts of South America because it depicts romantic revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in a terrible light. [...]
Mahmoud Abbas does his roaring tiger impersonation.
Daniel Wultz, the 16-year old American Jewish teenager injured in last week’s terror attack in Tel Aviv, is still in critical condition, having already lost a kidney, his spleen, and part of his leg. Please keep him in your prayers. (His Hebrew name is Chaim Meyer Naftali ben Sarah). Update: Daniel has regained consciousness, [...]
“The lesson of World War II is that appeasement, concessions, and weakness are a recipe for a holocaust” – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, at the official Holocaust Day ceremony
At least 22 people have been killed, and over 150 wounded, after three explosions rocked the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, located in Sinai. Updates 9.50PM: Israel’s Channel 10 has reported that the Government know of the presence of Israelis in Dahab (most of whom are Israeli Arabs), but have no word of any Israeli [...]
