Archive for October 29th, 2007

Leave Israel Alone

Inspired by this (hat tip: JPost BlogCentral).

Israeli News Briefs – October 29th, 2007

The palestinian soccer team is blaming Israel after it missed its World Cup qualifying match. In other news, the palestinians have a soccer team eligible to try qualify for the World Cup, despite the fact that they do not have a country. We really should Ban Ki-moon. A palestinian traffic police officer has died after [...]

Quote(s) of the Day

“Olmert should not resign because of his condition..this type of illness will not impair his functioning… [He should resign] despite the tumor, because of his failures.” – Member of Knesset Arieh Eldad (National Union-National Religious Party), after PM Olmert’s announcement that he has prostate cancer “The PM doesn’t have to resign because of his condition, [...]

The Perils of Being a Zombie

It’s not always easy being undead. Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police. The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg [...]

Channeling the Scoob

I couldn’t resist cracking a smile at this (hat tip: Elder of Ziyon) The Zionist lobby and its meddling in the Darfur crisis is a major problem facing the war-torn province, a Sudanese official has said. The Secretary General of the Council of Foreign Media at the Sudanese Ministry of Information, Bakri Mallah, told Alalam [...]

True Lies

True Lies

When is a drug not a drug? When it’s a leaf! The governor of California says marijuana is not a drug, a British magazine reported today. Arnold Schwarzenegger told the British edition of GQ magazine that he had not taken drugs. The former bodybuilder and Hollywood star has acknowledged using marijuana in the 1970s and [...]

Separated at Birth

No, this is not that kind of post. I’m talking literally. Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein lived very similar lives. They were both born in New York, edited their high school newspapers and studied film at university. And both were adopted in 1968. It was only at the age of 35 that they discovered each [...]