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 [...]

Separated At Birth: Happy Campers Edition

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

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 of [...]

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 [...]