Archive for August 27th, 2007
Near Lynch
An IDF officer today mistakenly entered a palestinian town, and almost got lynched for his troubles.
Luckily for him (and unlike in the case of the October 2000 events in Ramallah), palestinian policemen helped save him from the lynch mob, rather than joining it.
An IDF officer was rescued Monday afternoon by Palestinian Authority police officers after [...]
Reaching For The Stars
While palestinian first-graders are learning how to become martyrs, their Israeli counterparts are learning the regular things first-graders learn. You know…reading, writing…astrophysics and astronomy….
Pupils in Jerusalem’s Har Homa neighborhood can now aspire to reach the stars, thanks to a new curriculum from first grade that includes astrophysics, astronomy and space studies. It will be offered [...]
The Planting
The palestinian Ma’an News Agency reports:
A Palestinian citizen was killed by Israeli forces on Monday, east of Al Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources informed Ma’an that 43-year-old Farid Abu Thahir died on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli forces opened fire at him while he was cultivating [...]
A Life Without Taste
Having already targeted Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, and Diana, the late Princess of Wales, Germaine Greer has now set her sights on……cuddly toys.
Teddies and bunnies are taken into exams and sat on the desks, as if to be without them for three hours would induce hysteria and fainting spells. Soft toys are left along with [...]
