Via SpiegelOnline: A new exhibit in Lebanon celebrates Hezbollah’s 2006 war against Israel and commemorates fallen military leader Imad Mugniyah. Though gruesome and kitschy, the show has been a huge success.
Photo Gallery: Hezbollah Honors Fallen Leader
Britons may be more vulnerable to Aids due to Roman invasion
Via the Telegraph: Researchers found that people who live in lands conquered by the Roman army have less protection against HIV than those in countries they never reached They say a gene which helps make people less susceptible to HIV occurs in greater frequency in areas of Europe that the Roman Empire did not stretch to. The gene lacks certain DNA elements, which means HIV cannot bind to it as...
The Jewish Battalions of the British Royal Fusiliers
In 1915, the Jewish Battalions of the British Royal Fusiliers was formed, consisting of Jewish volunteers from America, England, and Israel. Their goal was to join the efforts of the British Army in World War I to liberate Israel from Turkish rule. The idea was first proposed by Zev Jabotinsky, and by 1919, some 5,000 Jewish volunteers were participating in the battalions. Excerpted from Today In...
Palestinian TV Teaches Children of a World Without Israel
Via PMW: Palestinian children are taught to see a world in which “Palestine” replaces all of Israel. A children’s quiz broadcast Sep. 3 on Fatah-controlled PA television shows Palestinian children routinely identifying every Israeli city and landmark as part of “Palestine.” Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat are described as Palestinian ports, the Sea of Galilee is said to be a Palestinian lake, and the...
Oprah Winfrey’s duplicity
Via Drudge Report: Oprah Winfrey may have introduced Democrat Barack Obama to the women of America — but the talkshow queen is not rushing to embrace the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket! Oprah’s staff is sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. “Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on,” an insider explains. “Oprah’s website is...
Photos of Taliban Posing in Dead Soldier’s Uniform Shock France
Via TimesOnline and CNN: A picture of a Taliban fighter in the uniform of a dead French soldier drew anger in France Wednesday as the army came under new fire over its conduct in an ambush that killed ten paratroopers in Afghanistan last month. Paris Match magazine was condemned by politicians, the military and soldiers’ families for publishing a spread of Taliban posing with their French...
CAIR Involved in Criminal Fraud
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a tax exempt, so-called “public interest law firm”, which promotes itself as the “largest Muslim-American civil rights organization”, stands accused by Muslims themselves of having been involved in criminal fraud. Federal prosecutors have long-identified CAIR as a co-conspirator in the financing of international Jihad-terrorism. That seems to be...