Once upon a time, not too long ago, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock made us all fear McDonalds with his award-winning film “Super Size Me”. If you recall, Spurlock spent 30 days eating nothing but McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and documented his deteriorating health on film, in between scenes of his journey through the […]

A video grab shows the last frame of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana before he was fatally wounded by an Israeli shell whilst working in the Gaza Strip April 16, 2008. Shana, a 23-year-old Palestinian, died after he stepped from his vehicle, apparently to film Israeli forces positioned several hundred metres (yards) away. Soundman, Wafa Abu […]

When your dream house becomes an Israeli military post. The sad thing about this is that there are people who will still justify it, and I think you really need to view Palestinians, or Arabs in general, as truly less than human to be able to justify it; even to yourself.

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The man who stabbed the German tourist a few weeks back has been charged by a military court with committing a “terrorist act”, after earlier being passed off as a mentally deranged person with no terrorist intentions by the Interior Minister. The charge has to be approved by the attorney general and it probably will […]

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian authorities on Wednesday released Jordanian Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, a leading al-Qaeda mentor, after several years imprisonment without trial, security sources said. They said Maqdisi, who was regarded as the spiritual mentor of slain al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been in solitary confinement since he was rearrested […]

While everyone waits with bated breath the results of today’s deadly primaries in the US, here are a few del.icio.us pickings I’ve been reading these past couple of days:
- A Rose By Any Other Name: An Iranian court has ordered a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses that he promised in her dowry, […]

Probably in response to Abbas’ decision to break off contact with Israel, but I found this incredibly ironic, but you be the judge…
“Absence of negotiations would lead to a ‘Gazaization’ of the West Bank, and anyone who can’t see this is lying to himself,” - Prime Minister Olmert. March 3, 2008. [source]

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Going to work on a Saturday, especially when most of the employees that don’t “have” to work are absent, just throws the whole week off. Saturdays become Sundays, and Sundays become Mondays, but by the time Thursday comes around, your mind is already sleeping in on a Friday morning, except it’s really only Thursday. So […]