Archive for April 22nd, 2007

The Prophecy

Via Lisa, comes this photo from today’s Maariv newspaper.

The photo is of a young soldier named Yonatan showing dark humor as he holds up a piece of paper with the words “I am going
to die” written in Hebrew.
3 days later he was killed while rescuing wounded soldiers in Lebanon.

Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day)

22,305 have been killed in battle since 1860, the year in modern times when Jews first left Jerusalem’s walls to establish neighbourhoods outside
233 IDF soldiers and veterans died over the last year
1,635 civilians have been killed in hostile actions since the establishment of the state
Source

More Great Moments in Attempted Suicide Bombings

Yesterday, I posted about the palestinian who wanted to blow himself up over a gun. Well, it looks like this non-72-virgin induced suicide bombing trend is really taking off.
A Palestinian youth has threatened to detonate an explosive belt and blow himself up in a police station in Ramallah, if the police will not return his [...]