While promoting his new movie Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson said people should just let his drunken, anti-Semitic rant of 2006 go. “It’s said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words,” he said. “I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized – [...]
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner talks to Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere at a dinner at the foreign ministry in Paris.. Kouchner: “Who the hell invited Lily Tomlin?”
Israel is to send a police delegation to Haiti in the next two weeks to take part in an international policing effort with the immediate aim of “supporting the community and maintaining public order”, and the long term goal of “helping international efforts to train and rebuild the Haitian police force.” At least those are [...]
Some child from an advertisement on the new and improved Jerusalem Post site, and a troll.
Sean “Spicoli” Penn meets a Haitian earthquake survivor as IDF Medical Corps look on. “I wish I could have come sooner, but it’s the darnedest thing. I ran into boat troubles again. Speaking of which, do you have a cup?”
A couple of days ago, Osama bin Laden or someone purporting to be him (depending on whether you subscribe to the “He’s alive” or “He’s dead, Jim” school of thought) released an audio message endorsing the failed attempt to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day, and threatened more attacks against the US “as [...]
With the IDF winding up its humanitarian efforts in Haiti, former CNN correspondent Frida Ghitis has written this must-read piece. For once, the main topic of discussion in Israel has no connection to war, politics or even the Middle East. From huge newspaper headlines to private conversations in small towns, Israelis can’t get enough information [...]
While I waded in the filth that is Richard Silverstein’s blog, I noticed a post of his on an article about Israel’s rebuttal to the Goldstone Report (http://tinyurl.com/yec7g5a). In particular, this reaction: On a final note, I was also astonished that B’Tselem allowed itself to become part of Bronner’s case that Israelis universally condemn Goldstone’s [...]
According to the Hamas website, Gazans have joined efforts to provide assistance to the devastated country of Haiti. Well, kind of. They’re donating “symbolic amounts of food and some cash donations,” but very real amounts of anti-Israel propaganda. “We have been living a man-made disaster actually for the past 62 years,” said Palestinian parliamentarian Jamal [...]
