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The Day In Israel: Thursday Mar 18th, 2010
In his first interview with Fox News, US President Barack Obama has denied there is a crisis in US-Israel relations.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
10:08PM: Yet more media bias?
Which begs the question: how does the AFP stringer know that this is a fake rocket? After all, the guy carrying it is a real Hamas [...]
The Day In Israel: Tuesday Mar 16th, 2010
Police are bracing themselves for violence after Hamas announced a “day of rage” in response to Israel’s latest outrageous outrage – the dedication of the restored Hurva synagogue, which was destroyed by the Arab Legion in the War of Independence.
Large forces will continue to be deployed throughout the city, with 3,000 police and border [...]
The Day In Israel: Monday Mar 15th, 2010
After waking up this morning, I was greeted with this sobering report:
‘U.S.-Israel relations at their worst in 35 years’
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country’s diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office to project a sense [...]
The Day In Israel: Sunday Mar 14th, 2010
US President Barack Obama has issued a stern ultimatum to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
A widely predicted crisis between Israel and the United States upon Benjamin Netanyahu taking office as prime minister finally erupted this weekend.
U.S. President Barack Obama did not hold back in condemning the humiliation caused to Joe Biden with the Israeli announcement [...]
Saturday Night Haniyeh
Although making fun of the rolly polly Hamashole is good any day of the week.
This soccer refereeing thing is even more fun than playing.
I’m gonna wash that grey right out of my hair…
“Not. Feeling. Well. What’s in this pita bread”
“I’m a natural with kids.”
“There, there Ahmed. Nothing to be afraid of. Those men with masks [...]
Banned!
Hamas continues to impinge on the rights of palestinians in Gaza, with men now being banned from working in women’s beauty parlours.
“The Palestinian authorities (in Gaza) have decided to ban men from working in women’s beauty parlours following instructions from Interior Minister Fathi Hammad,” said a statement on the website of the Hamas-run police force [...]
The Day In Israel: Thursday Mar 4th, 2010
Australian Federal Police officer recently landed in Israel to investigate how three forged Australian passports were used to turn Hamashole Mahmoud al-Mabhouh into worm food.
Then things got weird.
Australian Federal Police officers were involved in a hit-and-run car accident in Tel Aviv early this morning, just hours after landing in Israel to investigate how three forged [...]
The Day In Israel: Tuesday Feb 23rd, 2010
During talks yesterday in Brussels, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband demanded full cooperation from Israel with a British inquiry into the use of bogus passports.
The Serious and Organized Crime Agency (who I guess are serious and organized -ed.) or SOCA is investigating how the identities of British citizens were stolen.
“He made clear that we were [...]
The Day In Israel: Sunday Feb 21st, 2010
Britian’s Sunday Times seems to have it all worked out.
In early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the “midrasha”.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, [...]
Tip-Off
No, the title of this post is not a reference to the punchline of a popular circumcision joke, but rather a Daily Mail report that the Mossad tipped off M16 that their agents were about to carry out an overseas operation using fake British passports.
A member of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the Foreign [...]
