The Holy Land

27Oct04 — 0

Future News: November

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 […]

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22Sep04 — 0

Biting The Hand

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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22Sep04 — 2

The Dangers Of An Israeli Accent

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 […]

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15Sep04 — 4

Virgin International

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. […]

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22Aug04 — 0

Glad We’ve Got That Sorted Out

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 […]

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15Aug04 — 4

Coming Out

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 […]

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10Aug04 — 0

Beebwatch!

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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17Jul04 — 3

Beyond A Joke

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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17Jul04 — 1

Separate Questions

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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22Jun04 — 0

Money Tip

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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13Jun04 — 0

Get Out. Get Ahead.

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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03Apr02 — 0

03Apr02

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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