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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday said that only people suffering hallucinations believe it is possible to realize the dream of holding onto the greater Land of Israel, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War.
An interesting little quote here from the besieged Israeli PM here; he knows that Israelis are increasingly keen [...]

Knesset MK Avigdor Lieberman said some very disturbing things today, as reported in the Jerusalem Post:
Israel Beiteinu chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman swore to “rid the Knesset of all its Arab Factions” Monday, adding to the growing animosity between the two groups.
Remind me again how this guy was elected? Seriously…

So it happened this morning, one of the most significant moments in Australian history, and certainly the greatest day in the history of indigenous Australians at the very least since the 1967 referendum.
I’m quite sceptical about the national apology, but that’s or another time. I understand that it’s now happened, and that’s that. Surely now [...]

Nice to see that just a day after Barack Obama won the Democratic South Carolina primary, Senate stalwart Teddy Kennedy has given his all-important endorsement to Obama. The Times reports a story about Obama:
It was on a November day in 2005, near the end of Mr. Obama’s first year in the Senate, when he [...]

As it does sometimes, The Age has decided to run two articles, with two contrasting points of view on the one subject. It often chooses the Israel-Palestinian conflict because it evokes so much emotion in so many people. This time, it has an article in the Palestinian corner by Australians for Palestine’s Michael Shaik (I’ll [...]

Apparently British PM Gordon Brown wants England to have a national motto but, according to the New York Times, it was met with distaste. Apparently, The Times “cynically” ran a competition to find the best motto from the plebs:
The readers’ suggestions included “Dipso, Fatso, Bingo, Asbo, Tesco” (Asbo stands for “anti-social behavior order,” a law-enforcement [...]

Everyone’s talking about George W.’s Middle East peace conference in Annapolis which aims to “an independent democratic viable Palestinian state” by the end of the President’s term in 2009. Yeah, right.
Even though this conference is a positive step — it is, after all the first multi-national effort to ‘resolve’ the Arab-Israeli conflict in since Oslo [...]

I’m in two minds about last night’s election result. I’m not overly un-happy that the ALP got in, but I am very disappointed that Kevin Rudd happens to be in charge at the moment, and will become Australia’s 26th prime minister.
I didn’t think it was time for a change, but I do agree with some, [...]

The Age reports today that a paintball facility had been proposed to be built near Melbourne Airport but has been rejected by VCAT because it “could in effect become a Trojan horse for a terrorist or group of terrorists.”
Seriously, let’s think about this: Just as building a paintball park near the airport poses great security [...]

What is it with the buzz word ‘economic conservative’ that Australians seem to want to hear? Both John Howard and Kevin Rudd have being so keen in this election to show their fiscal responsibility — which I guess is no surprise with the economy going full-steam ahead and Howard leading by so much in the [...]