Israellycool reader, real-life friend and fellow blogger Gedalia posts about a possible anti-Semitic/anti-Israel attack that occurred in Perth a few nights ago. This story started last Thursday. I received a call from a friend in Melbourne. Usual story – there are two Israeli backpackers coming to Perth. Can I take them in for Shabbat, help [...]
Do yourselves a favor and read this fantastic op-ed by Salim Mansur, a Muslim associate professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario. The 60th anniversary of Israel’s birth is a milestone as was every other such anniversary going back to that defining moment for Jews and non-Jews alike when David Ben-Gurion proclaimed [...]
Detractors of President George Bush love to insinuate that he is no Einstein. They may have a point. Speaking of the “promise of God” for a “homeland for the chosen people” in Israel, Bush told the Knesset after a visit to the Roman-era Jewish fortress at Masada: “Masada shall never fall again, and America will [...]
Inflation gone wild. Zimbabwe has introduced a new half-a-billion dollar bank note in a bid to tackle cash shortages fed by rampant inflation, the central bank said today. The $500,000,000 note is worth $A2.61c. “Introducing the new 500,000,000 bearer cheque for your convenience,” read a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe full-page advert in the state daily, [...]
Here are some highlights of US President George Bush’s speech at the presidential ‘Facing Tomorrow’ Conference. By the way, you’re better of viewing the video here, rather than clicking through to the YouTube page, unless you have an appetite for vehemently anti-Israel and anti-Bush comments.
I received the following in my email following one of our Shire Network News podcasts and I though the answer might be of interest here. Could you please explain this Israel Independence Day to me? I thought it was May 14 / 15th. Now everyone is saying it was May 8th. Then, I hear things [...]
This photo of first lady Laura Bush with Aliza Olmert during a visit to a school in Jerusalem, is crying out for a caption.
Updates below Yet another terror attack yesterday, with palestinians in Gaza firing an Iranian-made Grad rocket at Ashkelon, hitting a shopping mall at a busy time of the day. 15 people were injured, with 4 in serious condition, including a 24-year-old woman and her infant daughter. In addition, 87 people were treated for shock. Ashkelon [...]
While Qassams continue to rain down on Israel, not to mention foreign leaders for her 60th birthday celebrations, the main news item here in Perth, Western Australia is what the seat-sniffing Opposition leader may or may not have done with a furry animal. Seat-sniffing West Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has denied he once abused [...]
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad’s recent statements include, “The era of the Zionist literature and the Zionist political mechanism and the Zionist bullying policies has come to an end,” “I just want to tell you that holding a birthday party for a dead person is of no use. These gatherings can not revive a corpse,” and “The [...]
