Daily Archives: 07/17/2007

Simpson mania

File this under: You can’t make this stuff up. Okay, the setting: There’s a 400-year-old giant chalk outline of a pagan fertility god in a field in England. Sensing a publicity moment, Fox hired the field next to the pagan … Continue reading

Posted in Humor, Pop Culture | 8 Comments

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The end is online

Someone posted images of the final chapter of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows online. I have no desire to read the ending before the novel is published, but be warned. If you don’t want to know, stay away … Continue reading

Posted in The Catmage Chronicles | 7 Comments

Italian FM shills for Hamas

The Italian Foreign Minister thinks that Israel should stop isolating Hamas. This is what is wrong with people like him: They acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization, then say that if we don’t “engage” Hamas, it might push them … Continue reading

Posted in Hamas, Israeli Double Standard Time, World | 4 Comments

Sixty years later, same old Europe

I’m sorry, but I fail to see much difference between the attitudes of Europeans about Jews today, and the attitudes of their grandparents and parents in the 1930s and 1940s. So the results of this poll by the ADL come … Continue reading

Posted in Anti-Semitism, World | 4 Comments

Palestinians trapped in Egypt start riot; world yawns

Palestinians that Hamas will not allow to re-enter Gaza because they refuse to allow Israel any control over the crossing are rioting in Egypt. About 100 Palestinians smashed doors and windows inside an airport building in this Egypt-Gaza Strip border … Continue reading

Posted in Israel | 3 Comments

Why the amnesty is bad for Israel

Guy Bechor writes in Ynet about how bad this deal with Abbas is for Israel: Back to Oslo illusion Israel’s immunity gesture will restore terror infrastructure in West Bank The Palestinian terror infrastructure in the West Bank has been embroiled … Continue reading

Posted in Israel, Terrorism | 2 Comments

Comments moderation update

I’m still seeing normal user comments go into the spam queue. There’s not even a spam score; they’re being tagged with question marks. I’ve recovered a few more and taken out something that I think may be confusing Spamkiller, but … Continue reading

Posted in Site news | 1 Comment

UN impotence in action

I really like this quote: Ban Ki-Moon says he has “done a lot” to get Hezbollah to release the soldiers they kidnapped a year ago. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that he has “done a lot” to try … Continue reading

Posted in Israel, World | 1 Comment