Tomorrow is election day here in Australia, and if the polls are to be believed, John Howard and his Liberal party are going to be voted out of office, with Kevin “Mmm..earwax” Rudd likely to be Australia’s new Prime Minister. While one late poll indicates the election may be closer than first thought, chances are [...]
Ynet reports: Greenpeace activists who arrived Thursday morning at a conference on the nuclear issue at Tel Aviv University stripped in protest a few moments before the start of a speech by President Shimon Peres. The protestors carried leaflets bearing the messages “strip the Middle East of nuclear programs” and “a new Middle East = [...]
The Jerusalem Post reports: Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio Thursday that any future agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is dependent on the Palestinians implementing their obligations in the first phase of the Road Map: to disarm all terror organizations. Now I’m confused. Weren’t all past agreements between Israel and the palestinians predicated [...]
While our neighbors have long been using terror cells to murder innocent people, Israeli doctors are using adult stem cells to try improve the lives of many. Neurologists at Jerusalem’s Hadassah-University Hospital, Ein Kerem, are the first in the world to help multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients by injecting their spinal [...]
Israelity reports: A robot programmed to work on Shabbat will do it: clear the table, turn off the oven, control the a/c and click lights off and on – especially the bathroom one that gets turned off accidentally in the middle of the night by half-awake innocents. According to the Hebrew press, “Shabbat Robot” is [...]
Anti-Israel and anti-cyber-bullying campaigner Richard Silverstein on online harassment: Tell me if you ever figure out what his [mine - Aussie Dave] real name is (I know it’s Dave L.). He likes to hide in semi anonymity on the web & I’d love to out his real name. —- But it’s funny he would visit [...]
I’m back in my hometown of Perth, Australia, and the Israeli government looks no less absurd from this distance. Despite IDF, Shin Bet’s warning that equipment could reach terror organizations, prime minister agrees to hand over to Palestinians armored vehicles from Russia, 2 million bullets as goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Abbas ahead of Annapolis [...]
I’m in Hong Kong airport at the moment, having just completed the 10+ hour flight to here from Israel. The flight was surprisingly good, due in no small part to the fact I had my own screen and console for selecting movies, television shows and games. The sad thing is, I probably would have given it all a miss [...]
Today, Israel announced that they were releasing some 441 prisoners ahead of Annapolis as a “goodwill gesture.” This evening, Israel was rewarded with the murder of a 29-year old Jew in the West Bank. And who proudly took credit for this terror attack? Fatah, of course. A spokesman for the organization said that the terror [...]
Israel, stumbling down the stairs leading to Annapolis, has made a number of “goodwill gestures” ahead of the meeting in order to appease the PA and the State Department. It is releasing hundreds of prisoners, freezing building in the settlements, dismantling others, Olmert met Abbas in PA territory for the first time, Israel granted amnesty [...]
