Archive for August, 2006
Responsible
Ha’aretz reports on the latest from Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Thursday that a prisoner swap with Israel was being considered by his government but that “nothing has materialized.”
Siniora said Lebanon was “continuing the contacts” with Israel about a possible swap in which two Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted by Hezbollah [...]
More Photo Doctoring?
Sometimes a dog with its leg on the couch is really only a dog with its leg on the couch.
Or so they would have us believe.
Now This is Great Journalism
Tim Blair rips Martin Chulov of The Australian (who covered the Red Cross ambulance story and rejected claims that it was a hoax) a new one. Bigger than the hole in the ambulance’s roof, in fact.
Hammering Gibson
John Kesselman, director of the sequel to The Hebrew Hammer, has an interesting idea as to how Mel Gibson can atone for his anti-Semitic ways.
The sequel, called “The Hebrew Hammer 2: Hammer vs. Hitler,” depicts a very drunk Mel Gibson spilling out of Moonshadows, two blondes on each arm and a bottle of Irish whiskey in hand. Gibson [...]
Quote of the Day
“You wanna know something? I actually like Bush…In some ways, I’m the George W Bush of hip hop – nobody likes me, but I’m still gonna run it for the next four years.”
- Rapper 50 Cent.
This is not the first time that 50 Cent has heaped praise on Dubya. Late last year, he was [...]
Israellycool Podcast #49: The Return
The latest Israellycool Podcast
(#49) is now up on my podcast
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On this week’s show, I
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One Day in Damascus
US civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson meets Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal…
Mashaal: “I wouldn’t be picking my nose if I were you. Don’t you know that is the reason behind Mahmoud’s ‘condition’?”
The Lowest Common Denominator
I guess now that their photo doctoring has been exposed, they are resorting to more tried and tested ways to influence public opinion against Israel.
A Lebanese woman walks past the rubble in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, that was heavily attacked by Israeli bombardment during the 34-day long Hezbollah-Israel war. (AP [...]
“The Most Significant Piece of Reporting To Come Out of the War”
So writes fellow Anglo-Israeli blogger Lisa Goldman, about this footage of a fierce battle between the IDF’s Nahal Brigade and Hizbullah, taken by Israeli journalist Itai Anghel on the night of August 6-7, using a camera equipped with a night vision lens
Wikipedia – The Fight Begins
As I suspected, no sooner had one of you written a Wikipedia article on Israellycool, that someone else has proposed it be deleted. The reason?
It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:
Non-notable blog
If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please [...]
