Archive for July, 2006

Liveblogging the War: Wednesday July 19th

The IAF struck over 20 targets in Lebanon overnight, including a Zelzal rocket launcher (capable of firing long range missiles), an arms cache, a truck carrying ammunitions, a road serving rocket launchers, buildings used by Hizbullah operatives, and building used to finance terror activities. In addition, IDF cannon batteries fired artillery rounds at Katusha launch [...]

Liveblogging the War: Tuesday July 18th

Barrages of Katusha rockets rained down on at least 16 towns in northern Israel last night and this morning. Approximately 50 rockets landed in total, wounding over 30 people.   The IAF has continued to strike targets in Lebanon, including a military base, bunkers in southern Beirut, a weapons cache, trucks used to carry arms [...]

Liveblogging the War: Monday July 17th

Katushas have continued to rain down on northern Israel, landing north of Nahariya, in the western Galilee communities, and in the Akko area. There have been reports of 4 people being lightly injured. One rocket directly hit a house, ;wounding the father of a family, while his wife and children were not hurt.   Southern [...]

Liveblogging the War: Saturday July 15th – Sunday July 16th

First things first – I am alright, in case you were worried. If you are a new reader to this site, you would not have realized that I do not blog on the Jewish Sabbath. I planned on posting a pre-Sabbath post, but the Wi-Fi was turned off without warning, and that was the end [...]

Liveblogging the War: Friday July 14th

After I went to bed last night, the IAF struck a Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Lebanon, known to be a Hizbullah stronghold – a “place where the Hezbollah leaders, including Hassan Nasrallah, are located on a regular basis,” according to IDF spokeswoman Miri Regev. 3 people were killed, and 55 wounded. This is the neighborhood [...]

A War on Two Fronts

My country is at war, and I have hardly any time to write about it.   Northern Front   When I went to bed last night, Israel had already decided on a severe response to yesterday’s events on the northern border. Our Air Force has since launched a number of attacks, including a strike on Beirut [...]

Operation Summer Rains: Day Fifteen

Just after midnight, IDF infantry soldiers and tanks entered central Gaza for the first time since Operation Summer Rains began, seizing control of the road leading from the Kissufim checkpoint to the former Gush Katif settlements, and effectively cutting the Strip in two. This represents an expansion of IDF operations, deemed necessary in order to [...]

No Butts About It

If you had been following the World Cup of soccer for the past few weeks, you probably are already aware of the infamous Zidane headbutting incident from Sunday’s final. If not, here is the incident that led to France’s Zinedine Zidane receiving a red card – an incident that ultimately, might have cost France the [...]

Caption Contest – Winners

Here are the winners to our caption contest: 1st place: Wart “Holy smokes! Did the Israelis knock out the mouthwash factory too??!!??” 2nd place: neoZionoid “Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetopWhen the belt blows, their cafe’s will rockWhen they withdraw, the Qassams will fallGive us Gaza, but we’ll kill for it all” 3rd place: Wart “I [...]

New York’s First Chasidic Cop

Did you hear the one about the Chasidic cop?   No, it’s not the opening of a joke. The NYPD has recruited an unorthodox new officer – its first Hasidic cop.   Joel Witriol, a 24-year-old Talmud scholar from Brooklyn, starts his training at the department’s Police Academy today. “I realized there were so many [...]