Archive for November 10th, 2008
Ramallah Heist
Ma’an News reports:
Palestinian police in Ramallah arrested a man on Monday they said was a member of an armed gang that stole a large sum of cash at gunpoint from another man.
Police said the gang stole 99,000 US dollars from the man, who said he was planning to purchase a bulldozer with the money. The [...]
Separated At Birth: Happy Campers Edition
Clearly, Israeli MPs Ehud Barak and Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu look nothing alike.
Most of the time.
Separated at Birth: Greenback Edition
Yasser Arafat’s nephew Nasser al-Qidwa, and Baron Greenback of DangerMouse fame.
Letter From Sderot
Here is a letter from an 18-year-old girl called Tzippora, written to her grandparents in the US. Tzippora’s parents are family friends, and would like a wider audience for this letter since it gives an insight into what is happening on a personal level here in Israel, and more specifically in the embattled city [...]
Beating a Dead Horse
Yawn.
Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died four years ago this week, was poisoned by Israel, a relative says.
“Every day there are statements and clues about the elimination of Arafat and every day we draw closer to the poisoning theory,” Nasser al-Qidwa, a nephew of the late Palestinian leader, said.
“In a year or two, the [...]
