Archive for March 13th, 2008

Inaccurate Reuters Caption of the Day

Israeli men pray as hundreds attend a memorial service for eight students, who were killed by a Palestinian gunman in a shooting attack last Thursday, in a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem March 13, 2008. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (JERUSALEM)
Perhaps we can forgive the Reuters caption writer for thinking the Israelis are praying, although they are clearly not [...]

The Small Minority Fallacy

Ma’an News reports on a large show of support for the 4 terrorists who are now fertilizing the soil.
About 50,000 Palestinians converged on Manger Square in the center of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday for the funeral of four Palestinian fighters who were assassinated by undercover Israeli forces on Wednesday night.
Mourners carried [...]

Asking For Pointers

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, meets the visiting star of Prison Break, Wentworth Miller.

“I don’t suppose you learned how to actually break out of a prison?
Just wondering.”

Australian PM’s Motion For Israel’s 60th Anniversary

I’ve tracked down the full text of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s motion for the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel.
The motion that had some ALP and Liberal Party MPs foaming at the mouth.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s motion for the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel
I move:
That the House:
(1) celebrate and commend the [...]

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As you were.

AFP Shows Yet Again its Anti-Israel Bias

This is not unusual but it is a textbook case of how media bias works.
Check out this AFP headline:
Gaza violence lull ends with Israeli strikes, rockets
In normal English this means that Israel ended the “lull” in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes and Israeli rockets.
The first paragraph is slightly more accurate but no less biased:
GAZA CITY (AFP) [...]

Striking Terrorists

Some breaking news from the palestinian Ma’an News Agency:

I don’t quite understand. How do “National and Islamic Forces” (i.e. terrorists) declare a strike? Since their day job is trying to kill Israelis, wouldn’t a strike mean desisting from this? In other words, a ceasefire (or lull)?
Unless what they mean by strike is a rocket strike [...]

Lull-a-Bye

Oh lull, how I never knew you..
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad said that it fired at least 15 rockets into the western Negev early Thursday, ending a week-long Egyptian-brokered moratorium in what it called an “initial” response to deadly Israeli raids in the West Bank.
No one was hurt by the salvo just after midnight against the [...]

Aussie Dave’s 80s Faves

Talk It Over – Grayson Hugh

Today’s Terror Darwin Award Candidate

He turned out to be quite bashiti terrorist.
An underground tunnel collapsed early Wednesday near Egypt’s border with the Gaza strip, burying alive one smuggler and injuring another, a security official said.
Palestinian smuggler Mohammed el-Bashiti and five others had nearly finished expanding the 600 meter tunnel from Gaza into Egypt located 10 meters beneath the [...]