Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Islamic Jihad again

Monday, February 26th, 2007

From YNet news:

The [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad [PIJ] has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack which left an Israeli man dead on Sunday night.

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Salam Fayyad

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Salam FayyadUS-educated economist Salam Fayyad has agreed to be Finance Minister in the Hamas-dominated Palestinian unity government.

Fayyad is generally held to be a ‘moderate’, and if anyone will be able to get the US and others to disgorge financial aid for the Palestinians, he will.

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Jews against Israel

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

By Vic Rosenthal

What it is about some Jews that makes them irrationally hate Israel?

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Peretz’s x-ray vision

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

PeretzMaybe Amir Peretz knows how to use the Force, but he’s not so good with binoculars: note the lens caps!

Of course it could be Photoshopped. But who would want to make fun of the Defense Minister?

No peace for the forseeable future

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

There is only one conclusion, and Moshe Dayan already said it in his eulogy over the grave of Roi Rutenberg, who was murdered by Arabs from Gaza in the 1950s: “This is our life’s choice: to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword slip from our hand and our lives be cut down.”

From a column by Ze’ev Schiff in Ha’aretz. Ha’aretz is left of center in Israel, but everyone is beginning to understand that for the forseeable future there will be no peace for Israel.

Read Schiff’s column here.