"...who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer..."[1]

Yes, yes, BBC, she was crushed. Not tragically run over, even martyred herself if you want to go the opposite direction. Those terms are way too pro-Israel and do not show the situation on the ground which you have to report as an agency whose job it is to deliver an opinion to uneducated ( Read more... )

"Protecting BART is a difficult assignment, he said, since it's a public transportation system open to the public." [1]

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=60172

very interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/07/us/20090407-immigration-occupation.html

way not to respond to provocations by turkey's hardliners. line about armenians is classic ( Read more... )

"Only 10% in a four-year study of California State Fair judging were able to consistently give the same rating, or something close, to the same wine sampled multiple times in a large blind tasting.
...[1]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-

Bnay Simon of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is a highly esteemed academic and political analyst with excellent sources, especially on sensitive issues concerning espionage, top secret diplomatic initiatives, and facts concealed by the authorities and not reported by the mainstream media ( Read more... )

To answer delusions that some people may have about how ALL Muslims just want peace, here is an interesting article about how kids are getting brain-washed by Hezbollah about going straight to heaven by become a suicide bomber ( Read more... )

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123154826952369919.html

Editorial by George Bisharat, a Palestinian-American professor at UC Hastings Law School.

Israel's current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious ( Read more... )

"... Palin's 2007 trip to Iraq, which the campaign had forwarded as evidence of foreign policy experience, was actually a trip to a Kuwait-Iraq border crossing. The campaign earlier had said the trip -- her only one outside North America -- included a visit to Ireland, but later acknowledged that was a refueling stop."[1 ( Read more... )

The local Israeli embassy organized a helicopter to airlift an Israeli backpacker injured during a trek in a mountainous area. Moments after he arrived safely at the hospital, his mother called the consul and asked him to send the helicopter back to where her son was picked up, because he had forgotten his backpack ( Read more... )