Archive for November, 2007
Israellycool Podcast #54: Father and Son
Israellycool podcast #54 is now up on my podcast site.
On this week’s show from Australia, me and my dad discuss the Australian elections, the upcoming Annapolis conference, and a subject closer to home.
Or you can listen directly here:
Ehud Barak, 2002
After the failure of Camp David and the resultant intifada, Ehud Barak spoke about what went wrong:
Barak today portrays Arafat’s behavior at Camp David as a “performance” geared to exacting from the Israelis as many concessions as possible without ever seriously intending to reach a peace settlement or sign an “end to the conflict.” “He [...]
As Sir Winston Churchill Once Said: “Doom Marches On”
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 no [...]
Tzipi is a Dirty, Dirty Girl
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 was [...]
State of the Union
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 [...]
Shire Network News Podcast joins the Army
This week my usual gig, Shire Network News, is hosted completely by Tom Paine, it’s original host. I’ve been too busy this week. I have to say that gives me the rare pleasure of listening to the show just for fun and I can safely say (because I’m not on it) that it sounds great [...]
Aussie Dave’s Cartoon Time: Cheney And The Shrink
Previous Efforts:
Mahmoud’s Rant
Bill’s Confession
When Shimmy Met Jerry
Israeli President Shimon Peres meets visiting American comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Shimon Peres: “No, really. I did win the Presidency.”
Related: Cosmo Peres
Israeli News Briefs – November 25th, 2007
Updated throughout the day
Israel’s diplomatic team of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has left for the inevitably disastrous Annapolis conference. In other news, Israel mysteriously experienced 3 earthquakes this week. Just saying.
Hamas say they are shocked – shocked, I tell you – that Arab foreign ministers [...]
About That Gaza “Humanitarian Crisis”…
From Ma’an (Arabic):
The commander of the [Fatah-based] Ahmed Abu Rish Martyr Brigades yesterday claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Sufa three military-type missiles Amr 2.
The battalions in a press release wrote: “This operation came in a series Covenant and fulfill the spirit of the martyr leader Yasser Arafat, the symbol, stressing adherence to the [...]
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