As the “road to Annapolis” (as all the TV news broadcasts here in Israel have been subtitled for the last few weeks) marches to it’s sorry end, I bring you something that Winston Churchill wrote while furiously warning that letting a militaristic Germany re-arm was global suicide: “Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are [...]
From Gulf Daily News: MPs demanded an apology yesterday after Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa accused them of having Palestinian blood on their hands. An MP, who urged the minister to wash his hands after meeting Israel Foreign Minister Tzipora “Tzipi” Livni, later backtracked saying he was only suggesting that Ms Livni [...]
Reading The West Australian this morning, I was struck by this image of two high profile Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) members who are no longer part of the state Labor party (the drongo on the left was expelled last month following remarks he made about then Prime Minister John Howard, while the [...]
