Category Archives: The Holy Land

Crap Headlines Of The Week

04Nov04 – 01:37

Thanks to Claire for this one from The Guardian. Here’s one that was changed at the source, so I only have a screenshot of the Google News link. And this one is from those sexually liberated Aussies.

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A Kind Of Blue

29Oct04 – 08:08

The West Bank: members of the Official Palestinian Smurf Fan Club crown this year’s winner of the Papa Smurf lookalike contest. Who’s The Daddy?

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Future News: November

27Oct04 – 21:33

Live from next month, more of “Pooter’s Futures”: The Middle East The body of one of the militants believed to have been responsible for the bombing of the Hilton hotel in Taba on Egypt’s border with Israel has been washed up on a bank of the river Nile near the Egyptian town of Aswan. When challenged about […]

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Biting The Hand

22Sep04 – 21:32

This is a fun, skeptical report on the various genome projects. I didn’t catch it when it first appeared in Ha’aretz: ” The circumstances which led to a visit by the head of the U.S. National Human Genome Institute astonished scientists in Israel. Collins has received many invitations to participate in scientific conferences in Israel, […]

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The Dangers Of An Israeli Accent

22Sep04 – 09:19

Listening to Radio 4 this morning I heard Humphrys ask Ehud Barak, “Would it be right for Israel to kill Yasser Arafat?” I almost fell over at the reply, “Arafat is toast.” What Barak actually said was , “Arafat is a terrorist”. Let’s hope anyone who has to translate his words into Arabic has sharper ears […]

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Virgin International

15Sep04 – 07:58

Some friends of mine are off on holiday to Rome later. As usual when anyone I know is going to a place with vaguely religious connections, I have asked them to bring me back a glow-in-the-dark virgin, an icon I recall with both spiritual and aesthetic horror from night stays at my Grandma’s in Preston. When […]

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Glad We’ve Got That Sorted Out

22Aug04 – 08:50

Globe-trotting teacher of English as a foreign language and funnyman ‘Blogger Harry Hutton puts me right over at Chase Me Ladies. It isn’t the Jooos who are to blame for the World’s ills; it’s the Joes. UPDATE: Ever alert, US Homeland Security bans Joes from flying. UPDATE UPDATED: Ted Kennedy is one of the main subjects of […]

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“Attempting To Empower Banality”

18Aug04 – 21:23

It’s rare I’m at a loss for words twice in one day, but, just as I am recovering from Arafat admitting to “mistakes” and promising to rein in corruption, I accidentally find this.

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Views

17Aug04 – 22:12

The Beeb uses Flash well to deliver this slideshow of the views of an Arab-Israeli campaigner living in Jerusalem.

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Coming Out

15Aug04 – 20:55

Golan Cipel, the man at the centre of the sex scandal engulfing former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey declared to the press today, “I am a straight Israeli.” He continued, “Many people in the World today believe that there is something unnatural about my nationality; some even refuse to believe that citizens like me exist. […]

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Beebwatch!

10Aug04 – 18:55

Adam proposes a vigil. He asks how long will it take for this Ha’aretz story about Arafat’s latest shenanigans to appear here, where the BBC covers “the Middle East”.

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Beyond A Joke

17Jul04 – 22:13

Palestinian militants launch kidnappings to protest UN Envoy's accusations that Palestinian leadership has failed to establish law and order in Palestinian areas. Satirist surrenders.

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Separate Questions

17Jul04 – 00:24

There's a difference between approving fully of Sharon's policies in dealing with the threat of Palestinian terrorism—I don't—and acknowledging seriously that they are working—they are. This is a difference too subtle for Barbara Plett of the BBC. In saying this, I am assuming that her disapproval of Sharon's approach is the reason she chooses to […]

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It's Quiet Around Here…

07Jul04 – 12:02

…because I'm busy. This morning Adam sent me a link to an interesting interview with a very interesting man in Ha'aretz.

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Money Tip

22Jun04 – 13:54

Since moving from New York to The Jewish State a few years ago, Judith has discovered that popular prejudice about the country's inhabitants is wrong in many ways. One less important example is that Israelis repeatedly demonstrate to her and her husband (ex-Wall Street workers both) their chronic incompetence in the supposedly competitive field of […]

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Get Out. Get Ahead.

13Jun04 – 09:21

Thomas Friedman has some advice for the Israelis today. PooterGeek's Israel correspondent's on it. [May require free registration with the New York Times; contains small moving fonts; not suitable for dyslexics.]

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The Generation Game

20Apr04 – 08:31

Judith tips us off to the delights of Hezbollah TV, as reported in the New York Times [free registration blah-de-blah].

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03Apr02

03Apr02 – 00:01

Our Woman in Israel, Judith Wrubel Levy, sent a link to this excellent, balanced and grimly realistic article on how the U.S. and U.N. should respond to the situation in Israel. You need to register (free) with the New York Times online to read it.

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