Archive for August, 2007

They Like Us for Something

Surfin’ Porni-A (sung to the tune of Surfin’ USA) If everybody had a laptop Across the Arab states Then everybodyd be surfin For porni-a Youd seem em wearing their jammies Keffiyehs too A bushy bushy black mustache Surfin for hot Jews I guess you could call it a “monkey and pig” fetish: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict [...]

The Announcement

Fresh from the oven: Fatah’s armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, announced Tuesday it would no longer honor understandings reached with Israel, and called on its members to carry weapons to defend themselves against the IDF. “We call on all our members who handed over their weapons to the Palestinian security forces to report to [...]

Today’s Example of Mainstream Media Bias

Israeli forces kill 2 children in Gaza, screams out today’s AP headline. You have to go down a few paragraphs to get a better perspective of what probably happened. The Israeli army said ground forces fired at two Palestinians who were spotted near a rocket launcher in an area of northern Gaza where a rocket [...]

Catmeathead, Trad, and the Art of Litigiousness

Catmeathead, Trad, and the Art of Litigiousness

Sheikh Taj Din “Catmeathead” Hilaly is back in the news. But this time it is because of unpaid wages, not uncovered meat. A year after splitting from the nation’s leading Muslim group, declaring he would no longer accept money to be its spiritual adviser, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali has done an extraordinary about-face by insisting [...]

Hamass

Hamass

Hamas has removed the image of “the big chicken” from the front page of its website, and replaced it with this image: In case your vision fails you, the text reads: from surgeon depth ALQASSAM INCOMING. No, I do not know what that means. All I see is a horse’s behind. And he seems to [...]

The Targets

 Al-Qaeda has reportedly set their sights on some famous infidels. David Beckham and Justin Timberlake are the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot. An internet video, which has been posted on YouTube, brands Becks, 32, and JT, 26, as criminal influences on young Muslims. Fellow footballers Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry, as well as [...]

Red Dwarf

 I couldn’t resist this story. A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry. Daniel Blackner, or Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf, was due to perform at the Circus of Horrors at the festival [...]

Milestone

Milestone

This blog reached – wait for it – one million dollars unique visitors at 8:58:35 am Israel time, Tuesday August 21st. This represents the number of unique visitors since I installed the new Sitemeter counter in August 2004. And who was the one millionth visitor? If this is you, identify yourself in the comments and [...]

Pictures from Eilat

Pictures from Eilat

They’re a bit late coming, but here are some photos from my recent trip to Eilat. Here’s the view from our hotel room balcony. To give you an idea how close to Eilat Jordan is, those mountains in the background are Jordanian territory, and the Jordanian flag is visible where you see the red square [...]

Arrested Development

Ma’an News Agency reports: Israeli forces stormed into a wedding celebration in a village east of Bethlehem on Monday night and arrested the groom and his brother. Twenty-five-year-old Nawaf Suleyman Mubarak was receiving guests at his wedding in the village of Al Rashaidah when an Israeli military vehicle appeared and Nawaf and his brother, Mubarak, [...]