Tag: "Austria"

Israel's Defence Minister  Ehud Barak (R) is welcomed by Austrian President Heinz Fischer on December 9, 2011 in Vienna. DIETER NAGL/AFP/Getty Images

The Greeting

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak thought he’d show Austrian President Heinz Fischer some manly affection

Chanukah Hate Hijinx

Chanukah is the Jewish festival of lights, jelly donuts…and apparently anti-Semitic incidents. Such as this: Dozens of people led by an Orthodox priest smashed a menorah in Moldova’s capital, using hammers and iron bars to remove the candelabra during Hanukkah, officials said. The 1.5 meter(5-foot)-tall ceremonial candelabrum was retrieved, reinstalled and is now under police [...]

They’ve Got It Back to Front

April 2007: Austria strongly refuted on Wednesday accusations by abductors of two German hostages in Iraq that the European country was anti-Islamic. Austrian Foreign Minister  Ursula Plassnik stated her country rejects such accusations, noting that just six months ago, while heading the EU, Austria had hosted an international conference on Islam at a time when [...]

New Wonder of the World Discovered

An Israeli PR person who knows what they’re doing. Austria’s PR man of the year for 2008 is no other than Israeli Ambassador, Dan Ashbel. While the Foreign Ministry has been criticized over the years over its representation of Israel, especially regarding the Middle Eastern conflict, Ashbel, the ambassador to Austria has been greatly improving [...]

Haider’s Killer Revealed

Haider’s Killer Revealed

It’s official: deceased Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider was a man’s man. Stefan Petzner, the successor to Austrian right-wing populist leader Joerg Haider, has shocked the staunchly conservative country by revealing in a tearful interview that they shared a “special relationship”. Mr Petzner, 27, who was confirmed on Wednesday as the leader of the Alliance [...]

A Really Inconvenient Truth

The circumstances surrounding the death of Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider has taken somewhat of a..err..sharp turn. Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider, who died last weekend in a fatal car accident was seen partying at a well-known gay nightclub just before his death, according to German media reports. The leader of the nationalist Alliance for [...]

Another Inconvenient Truth

As more information comes to light, it seems like he really was darth daft Haider. Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider had been drinking when he died in a high-speed crash of his car last weekend, a party official said on Wednesday. “It is correct that … Joerg Haider was under the influence of alcohol at [...]

An Inconvenient Truth

It looks like Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider was the victim of his own bad driving and not the Zionist Electromagnetic Weapon of DeathTM after all. Austrian investigators say far-right politician Joerg Haider’s car was speeding at more than twice the posted limit when it crashed and killed him. Police reconstructing the fatal accident in [...]

Lights Out for Darth Haider

I guess he veered too far to the right. Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric in the 1990s was denounced as sympathetic to the Nazis, died early Saturday in a car accident. Haider, 58, the governor of the southern province of Carinthia, had been making a return to national politics with a more moderate [...]