In the palestinian (not so well) controlled territories, if you are at a funeral and dead, you are not necessarily the person being buried. A member of Islamic Jihad named Hussein Al-Buji was killed on Wednesday after fighting erupted during a funeral procession for an Islamic Jihad leader wounded in similar clashes in the city [...]
What is it about these weblog awards that turns otherwise articulate and thoughtful bloggers into the equivalent of high school kids desperately seeking validation? Note: If you are going to accuse me of similar behavior in the past, I will respond by saying: 1. I have never taken the actual results seriously and always seen [...]
If you are Israel, you help it build sewage treatment plants: Ahead of the winter and fearing that sewage cesspools in Gaza could once again spill over and flood nearby villages, the IDF Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA) has stepped up efforts to enable the Palestinians to complete the construction of a new sewage plant [...]
The (probable) future Prime Minister of Australia continues to be a real worry. Mr Rudd arrived at the mall an hour later, fresh from two campaign announcements – $150m to build emergency accommodation for homeless people, and $2.5m for a GP super clinic at Wyong Hospital. But he appeared to be a candidate for hospital [...]
Last week a bunch of internal, informal memos written by Donald Rumsfeld were leaked out and caused a minor embarrassment to the White House. In one of them, Rumsfeld wrote that oil wealth has at times detached Muslims “from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of [...]
