Ladies, get in line

Marrying a pirate is every Somali girl’s dream. He has power, money, immunity, the weapons to defend the tribe and funds to give to the militias in civil war.

Jihadists have fun online

Those feisty terrorists dare to use new technology to further their aims? Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.

Don’t let this man near the White House

Never forget the first rule of Western political life: any association with the Palestinian cause will automatically connect you with “extremism” and “terrorism”. Take this example from an increasingly desperate right-wing blogger: The LA Times is holding a video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who are openly hostile towards Israel.…

Jewish hatred for all to see

Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 26: My settler colleague, Israel Harel, his community’s champion at rolling his eyes, playing innocent and speaking with a honeyed tongue, is once again grieving and playing the victim. In a column published here last week (“Have we become Sodom?” October 23), he complained that the reason for what he termed…

Never. Believe. Washington.

What happened to Iran being the centre of world terror? Several American media outlets reported on Saturday that President George Bush is likely to announce after next month’s presidential elections that he intends to restore the diplomatic relations with Iran, almost 30 years after they were suspended.

You can’t stop the debate

How to censor online speech one step at a time: A Turkish court has blocked access to the popular blog hosting service Blogger (Blogger.com and Blogspot.com owned by Google), since Friday, October 24th, 2008. According to BasBasBas.com, a Dutch blogger based in Istanbul, who alerted us to the issue: It is suspected that the reason…

The Jewish gift to the world

Palestinian human rights have been abused throughout 40 years of Israeli occupation, according to the UN General Assembly’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. In a report to the UN General Assembly in New York, Richard Falk said Israel’s occupation – of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and, until 2005, the…

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