The Greeting
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak thought he’d show Austrian President Heinz Fischer some manly affection
Tag: "Austria"
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 [...]
Dec 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Feb 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Oct 24, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Oct 17, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Oct 15, 2008 | 5 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Oct 13, 2008 | 3 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Oct 11, 2008 | 6 comments | View Post
