Since the so-called ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that was announced six days ago, palestinian terrorists have fired a mortar shell at the Negev (last night), fired four Qassams at Israel today, as well as planned another attack on Israel. Now the thing about a ceasefire is that it comprises of two parts – “cease” [...]
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana greets US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice… “Javier, you ate onions again, didn’t you?”
Over two years ago, in a post entitled Nice Jewish Girl, I posted how Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow was getting back to her Jewish roots. Gwyneth Paltrow has started taking her Jewish roots seriously after missing out on two years of fasting during the religion’s high holy days. The actress was pregnant with baby Apple [...]
A palestinian medical student has reportedly been murdered in the Ukraine. Ma’an is there…to somehow blame it on Israel. The body of a Palestinian medical student who was murdered in the Ukraine on June 19 will arrive on Monday by plane to Jordan then to his home village Sourif, sources close to the Palestinian embassy [...]
Ha’aretz reports on some interesting poll findings: A recent opinion poll conducted by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government found that 77 percent of Israeli Arabs would rather live in Israel than in any other country in the world. The survey of 1,721 Israelis, both Arab and Jewish, also showed that 73 percent of the [...]
Ehud Olmert talks to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy.
How utterly predictable: The Shin Bet security service has identified a recent increase in terrorist activity in the Gaza Strip, The head of the intelligence agency Yuval Diskin said Sunday. He added that arms smuggling into the Hamas-controlled territory had been stepped up, as was training. Diskin addressed the Egypt-brokered cease fire between Israel and [...]
Here’s a nice story from Israel about a group of Israelis and palestinians playing Australian Rules Football of all things! You can view it here (go to the AFL kicking goals in Israel story). I was very close to playing against this team on Wednesday evening, but, alas, couldn’t find the time (Given that the [...]
Ma’an reports: The family of an 18-year-old Palestinian civilian, who died after being shot by Israeli security guards a few weeks ago, have donated his organs to save the lives of six Israelis. Patient “A” was clinically dead when he was transferred to the intensive care unit in Shiba medical center in Tel Hashomeir. But [...]
