Archive for October 12th, 2007

Israeli News Briefs – October 12th, 2007

Updated throughout the day

3 hitchiking Israeli teenagers have been kidnapped and robbed after being picked up by a palestinian driver. Luckily this was all that happened to them, as police arrived and saved them while a mob surrounded them.
Lebanon has freed Daniel Sharon, the Israeli arrested in Beirut four weeks ago on suspicion of involvement [...]

Getting Behind

A Palestinian man walks next to the controversial separation barrier with graffiti that reads, “Palestine don’€™t worry Gaza team is behind you” in the West Bank village of Abudes.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)
Actually, that is exactly why they should worry.

On The Fast Track

Wow, I guess I was wrong about Ann Coulter. She sure is effective.
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive “Supermax” prison where he is being held. Pelley also reports [...]

All You Need to Know About Jimmy

“He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland. While he provided indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement and was instrumental in forging a peace agreement with Israel in 1993, he was excluded from the negotiating role [...]