Archive for August, 2006

Buoyed Hezbollah plans next move

Monday, August 14th, 2006

To the surprise of almost nobody, the Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire amounts to a great victory for the terrorists. Few can remember Israel acting tepidly in war, but this instance they certainly have. Israel has left the Hezbollah militants feeling good, and acting as the superior armed force, even embarrassing and ridiculing the Lebanese army. IT was [...]

Fox News Journalists kidnapped in Gaza

Monday, August 14th, 2006

There are reports that two journalists for Fox News have been kidnapped. There are reports that two journalists from the U.S. Fox News television channel have been kidnapped by armed men in Gaza. An American correspondent and an Irish cameraman were reportedly seized after gunmen intercepted their car in Gaza City, witnesses told news agencies. [...]

Our friends, the British

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Well, at least one of them anyway. I suspect that a rather large number of British citizens feel this way, but Mr. Gimson has articulated the sentiment most eloquently. We are inclined, in our snobbish way, to dismiss the Americans as a new and vulgar people, whose civilisation has hardly risen above the level of [...]