Updated throughout the day French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to show creativity and try to make some gestures. Well, you can’t say he isn’t creative, given that he is forging ahead with his plans to help set up a palestinian state, even after finding out his peace partner’s organization [...]
Meet Kevin Rudd, the man favored to defeat Australian Prime Minister John Howard in the next Australian federal election. Via News.com.au
Noah Pollak of Azure has written a very insightful piece on Israel’s PR problem and suggests some reforms to address it. While I agree with Noah’s assessment and recommendations, he is missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: the role of citizen journalists, such as bloggers. It is imperative that the Israeli government and public [...]
Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin has revealed that a cell from “moderate” PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah planned to carry out an attack on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on August 6, en route to the Prime Minister’s meeting with Abbas in Jericho. Some of the suspects were actually meant to guard Olmert’s convoy. In [...]
“I remember at the Academy Awards a few years ago she was frenching her brother. She was giving her brother lip kisses like I never saw before in my life. And she had just said she made love to Billy Bob Thornton in the back of the limousine on the way over. And I wouldn’t [...]
Apparently at some point, Borat became the President of Belarus. “This is a Jewish city, and the Jews are not concerned for the place they live in. They have turned Bobruisk into a pigsty. Look at Israel – I was there,” the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, said during a live broadcast on state radio [...]
Hollywood director David Lynch, currently visiting Israel, believes he has a way of bringing peace to the Middle East. Transcendental meditation anyone? David Lynch, on a five-day visit to Israel to encourage transcendental meditation, met with Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres. —- The 61-year-old director, who has received Oscar nominations for [...]
If you live in the Hamas controlled territories, it’s probably not a wise idea to reveal yourself as the Muslim messiah. The Palestinian police force in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, formerly Hamas’ Executive Force, on Tuesday opened fire at a local resident who claimed he was the prophesised redeemer of Islam ‘Mahdi’. [...]
A Palestinian weapons dealer displays arms in the West Bank city of Hebron September 20, 2007. Four months after Islamist Hamas routed secular Fatah in the Gaza Strip, fears that clashes between the Palestinian rivals could erupt in the West Bank and uncertainty ahead of a U.S.-led peace conference are fuelling a scramble for guns. [...]
