A Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant boy holds a homemade toy rocket after a news conference in Gaza November 23, 2006. Israel’s security cabinet on Wednesday decided to press on with military raids and ‘targeted killings’ massacres in the Gaza Strip but had not yet ordered a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian [...]
The French are getting testy. French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post. Wednesday, several days after meeting with an IDF general in Paris to discuss what he said was a “blatant violation of [...]
Only a few days after his racist rant against some African Americans came to light – followed by a clumsy apology on Letterman – former Seinfeld actor Michael Richards is now being accused of being an anti-Semite. According to TMZ: Did Michael Richards attack the Jews? Two Los Angeles residents have come forward and said [...]
Following yesterday’s assassination of anti-Syrian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayelin, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has pledged not to allow “the murderers control the fate of Lebanon and the future of its children.” Unless, of course, the murderers attack Israel again; then it’s ok. Yaakov Yaakobov has become the latest victim of the deadly Kassam attacks on Israel, [...]
Palestinian doctors and medics take part in an exercise during an emergency medicine course sponsored by the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights at Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv gather around a Palestinian boy, who was brought into their hospital after being shot by Israeli troops on November 20 2006. The exercise was a dress [...]
Compare and contrast: Story #1 Forget the anti-Semitic jokes, it’s the racy publicity for the film “Borat” that bothers Israel’s censors. Posters showing comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s boorish Kazakh alter ego in a skimpy posing pouch were scrapped in the Jewish state on the grounds of decency, the newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday. [...]
My gradual podfading has taken its toll, with the podcast failing to make Lair’s Ten and Only Ten list for the first time in over a year. Can’t say I disagree with him either. I am finding it extremely hard to find the time to do a podcast these days. Sure, it isn’t too hard [...]
Updated with video of apology Question: What do you get when you cross a former Seinfeld star doing stand-up, with some heckling African-American audience members? Answer: This. Update: You can read more here. And here’s a CNN segment on the incident. Update: Kramer Richards apologizes on Letterman.
To those of you who may be wondering if I have anything to say on the wedding of Tom Cruise to Katie Holmes, I have two words for you. Platform shoes.
Palestinians continue to “protest” at the homes of terrorists. Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Peretz are continuing their Itchy and Scratchy routine. Or perhaps that should be Dumb and Dumber. Vice Premier Shimon Peres has told former Likud MK Natan Sharansky that there was no-one he admired more than him. Well, no-one except hot Hollywood actresses. [...]
