Dan Gillerman, outgoing Israeli ambassador to the UN, is always good for a sound-bite. Here are a couple of highlights from an interview in yesterday’s NYT: You recently called Jimmy Carter a “bigot” after he met with Khaled Meshal, the head of Hamas. Is it true you were reprimanded by the U.S. State Department? There [...]
In the wake of Israel’s release of despicable murderers of Jewish children, prominent Jordanians are asking King Abdullah to do the same: King Abdullah II was urged on Sunday to pardon a Jordanian soldier who is serving a life sentence for killing seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997. “After around 12 years in prison, Ahmad Dakamseh [...]
In the Saudi province of Hail, a 64-year old Saudi man has married a 10-year old girl. You see, the new husband only had one wife and was being taunted by the father of the 10-year old. He dared him to marry his daughter, and sweetened the deal by offering 100,000 Saudi Riyals (about $26,000) [...]
I’m beginning my journey back home to Israel tonight, so there will be no posts from me for the next 1-2 days. Hopefully, Elder or Brian will be able to fill the void. In the meantime, treat this as an open thread and discuss whatever you like in the comments.
A number of years ago, my father was interviewed for the Jewish Migrant Oral History Project. Thankfully, I have a copy of the interview, and I will be publishing excerpts from it in his memory. Previous installments: 1, 2, 3 Interviewer: I want to talk about how life was to change. Presumably you didn’t have [...]
Israel has called for the removal of the two UNIFIL soldiers who were photographed saluting the coffins of Hizbullah terrorists during Wednesday’s prisoner exchange. But instead of doing the responsible thing and removing the soldiers, the UN has defended their actions! Israel is calling for removal of two United Nations soldiers from Lebanon after photographs [...]
Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei believes our intelligence is there to be insulted. How else do you explain his statement that Iran is a friend of the Satan brothers? The deputy to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran was a friend of Israel, Iranian news agencies reported. “Iran wants no war with any [...]
I haven’t plugged the Israellycool store in a long time, but given the blog hosting bill I recently received (not to mention my third trip to Australia in half a year), it can’t hurt. You can order something by clicking here or on the Blogad on the right. As an added bonus, if you order [...]
Ami Isseroff brings to our attention the latest example of anti-Israel propaganda/anti-Semitism going mainstream. The culprit? Yourdictionary.com Yourdictionary.com is the latest example of how anti-Israel propaganda, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism have gone mainstream. Previously, we noted how anti-Israel propaganda had permeated Wikipedia, thanks to the efforts of a few dedicated anti-Israel editors. But Wikipedia, despite its [...]
Released murderer Samir Kuntar would like everyone to know he envies the Zionist enemy. Kuntar, who spent decades in an Israeli jail after killing a 4-year-old girl and three others in 1979, said Thursday he envied the lengths to which Israel goes to retrieve the bodies of its soldiers, the Jerusalem Post reported. “I’m jealous [...]
