Archive for February 21st, 2007

Mother Load

BNA reports:

PALESTINAIN WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO FIVE TWINS
 
A PALESTINIAN WOMAN TODAY GAVE BIRTH TO FIVE TWINS FOUR MALES AND ONE FEMALE IN HER SECOND PREGNANCY AFTER GIVING BIRTH PREVIOUSLY TO TWINS A BOY AND A GIRL, AMID ASSASSINATIONS AND ARRESTS CAMPAIGNS IN THE PALESTINIAN LANDS AS A RESULT OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION.

Incredible…five sets of twins, [...]

Fayce the Truth

Here’s someone I bet wasn’t invited to speak at Israel Apartheid Week.

At first glance, Fayce (not his real name), looks like a normal, young Tel Aviv resident. His native sounding unaccented Hebrew – complete with all of the Israeli slang – and his mannerisms bear all the hallmarks of someone who has lived in Israel [...]

More Useful Tools

The Jerusalem Post reports on yet another palestinian kidnapping of foreigners, which ended predictably, if not quicker than usual.
Three American women were briefly kidnapped Tuesday in the West Bank city of Nablus and were released later in the evening, Palestinian security officials said.
There was no claim of responsibility by an armed Palestinian group.
At one point, [...]

Judge Mental

Australia’s most decent dissent judge has shown why he should quit his day job.

High Court judge Michael Kirby yesterday accused America of being “obsessed” with September 11, 2001, saying more people died each day of AIDS than perished in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
 
Justice Kirby played down the significance of the attacks [...]

Germ Warfare

Does this woman ever shut up?
Germaine Greer has slammed as simpering and unmanly the gallery portrait of Steve Irwin that replaced hers.
Greer said it was disgraceful that it had taken the Australian National Portrait Gallery six months to to hang a portrait of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.
While she commended the gallery for finally [...]

Separated at Birth

Australia terrorist David Hicks (according to an identikit), and Australian musician Bernard Fanning
 

 
(hat tip: Tim Blair)