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.
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
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 [...]
A palestinian has threatened to blow himself up. Nothing unusual there, except for the fact that instead of wanting to do it to get to seventy two virgins, he wanted to do it to get to one gun. A Palestinian fugitive threatened to blow himself up Saturday in central Ramallah if authorities did not return [...]
New Zealand has a novel approach to dealing with its human waste problem. Auckland has come up with a novel plan for getting rid of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste – use it to fill one of its many extinct volcanos, then turn it into a regional park. I know just the [...]
While the palestinians are promising to honor Jacques Chirac, we are set to honor a real leader, and not just with a street name. Prime Minister John Howard will be honoured with a Jewish National Fund (JNF) forest in his name at a gala dinner in Melbourne next month. To be named the John Howard [...]
Shotgun wedding, palestinian style. Seven Palestinians were injured during a wedding in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday evening when shots were fired in the air. Palestinian security sources reported that the groom’s brother started shooting in the air using an automatic weapon. Just minutes later, his hand slipped and he injured 7 [...]
Oh, what suffering the palestinians have to endure. There’s the humiliating checkpoints.. Palestinian Interior Minister Hani Al-Qawasmi affirmed on Sunday that he would start practical steps towards implementing his new security plan, which the Palestinian cabinet ratified. —- In a press conference held in Gaza City on Sunday evening, Al-Qawasmi explained that the plan would [...]
Look up in the sky..is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a freakin’ pig. The Foreign Press Association has condemned a decision by Britain’s National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli goods, saying it runs “counter to core journalistic values.” The FPA, which represents nearly 500 journalists from international news organizations covering [...]
5. It is costing me money to run this blog. I could move to a free blogging platform like Blogger, but trust me, you don’t want that.4. Another blogger currently soliciting for donations has raised over $100 in a week, yet is calling his readers “cheap bastards.” I have raised $0 in a week, and [...]
