HEBRON, West Bank AFP — Anti-war activists and fashionistas have carried the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh across the globe, but in the West Bank producers of the headscarf are struggling to compete with Chinese imports. The black-and-white checkered scarf -- which became an international symbol of the Palestinian struggle when...
Dunkin' Donuts Caves in to NutsTrue, but...I think you're right, and I actually have the same position with respect to the actions of the company. I think that the core issue is really with the behavior of Michelle Malkin for making the spurious association between Ray and a fashion...
Attention food executives: it's good to pay attention to what's being said about you online, but caving in to attention-mongering ideological nutbags isn't a good strategy. Don't spend money on advertising campaigns only to send that money down the chute when crazy bloggers and syndicated columnists make ridiculous, conspiracy-theory claims....
Hundreds of Palestinians marched through the streets of Jerusalem yesterday to protest against plans to build a museum on part of a centuries-old Muslim cemetery. The Museum of Tolerance is intended to promote understanding in a city divided by ethnic and religious rivalries, but protesters say building it over gravesites...
AMMAN AFP — A Palestinian-born woman academic pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the beginning of her trial for allegedly insulting King Abdullah II and discriminating against students of Jordanian origin. The state security court accused Zuhryeh Abdul Haq, 60, a vice dean for education at the private...
HEBRON, West Bank AFP — Anti-war activists and fashionistas have carried the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh across the globe, but in the West Bank producers of the headscarf are struggling to compete with Chinese imports. The black-and-white checkered scarf -- which became an international symbol of the Palestinian struggle...
It's hot this time of year in Cuba. I hope Rachael Ray, the Dunkin' Donuts spokeswoman, has a lot of iced coffee to take with her when Homeland Security comes to lock her up for being an enemy combatant or terrorist sympathizer or whatever name they come up with. ...
BAQUBA, Iraq AFP — Hundreds of members of an anti-Al-Qaeda front in Iraq's central city of Baquba on Friday donned keffiyeh headdresses and took to the streets demanding the police chief be sacked, witnesses said. Fighters ran militia-style through two neighbourhoods in the capital of Diyala province, ordering...
* For months (or maybe it was years?) there was a FADER tradition called "Libertines Fridays," which subsequently disappeared-although it continues to live on in office folklore as some kind of freeform, hedonistic, fun as shit way to spend the last day of the workweek, or just work in general,...
By YnetNews.com Arab students attending the Haifa University distributed on Tuesday a leaflet titles "The Palestinian Student's Journal," which featured texts regarding the reoccupying of Jerusalem. The leaflet was distributed, they said, to mark both the anniversary of former...
"When the wise man points to the stars, the idiot looks at his finger. " --Chinese Proverb I. In the center of downtown Jerusalem, when red lights halt vehicular traffic every three minutes at the intersection...
As we huddle around a campfire in front of a long Bedouin tent, a waning moon throws a mystical light over the surrounding wadi, a dried-up riverbed the size of an Olympic stadium. Teasing the fire with an acacia branch, Ide, our Bedouin host, recounts tales of tribal warfare as...
Ehud Olmert's Daily Affirmations 10) "Why bring back a failed leader of the past, when I'm failing pretty well right now?" 9) "I bet Hassan Nasraliah doesn't have to worry about bank fraud charges." 8) "A 14% approval rating isn't so bad ... when was the last time even 14%...
Fashion duo claim their 'Zionized' keffiyeh will be de rigueur for style-conscious Israelis - and promote peace. Tel Aviv - It's been four decades since Yasir Arafat made the black and white keffiyeh part of his daily wardrobe-and an indelible symbol of Palestinian nationalism. Now, two Israeli entrepreneurs have repackaged...
RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas assured tens of thousands of supporters that he was determined to prevent further factional clashes with rival Hamas after weeks of internecine bloodshed. "Preserving national unity and preventing internal clashes is our priority," Abbas told a crowd of flag-waving, chanting supporters...
By Ha'aretz The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on Wednesday sentenced a man convicted of throwing a pig's head at a mosque to nine months in prison. Shimon Ben-Haim was convicted of throwing the pig's head into the courtyard of...
"I believe that all of us, the lucky ones who've been able to go to school, have an intellectual responsibility to live our lives in a correct way. And revolution is not a part of history but a spirit with which we [must uphold] justice," says MC Yan, aka Syan,...
PETRA, Jordan AFP — Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took a brief break from his first tour of the crisis-hit Middle East to visit the ancient Jordanian city of Petra. "Unforgettably impressive!" a joyful Koizumi, sporting a keffiyeh, exclaimed in English as he gazed upon the open-air amphitheater...
AMSTERDAM AFP — Nine members of the so-called Hofstad group were convicted of belonging to a terrorist organisation and sentenced to up to 15 years in prison, ending a trial seen as a test case for the Netherlands' tough new anti-terrorism laws. Mohammed Bouyeri, already convicted of murdering...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP — The hotels may not be full and Israel's "wall" may have cut it off from Jerusalem, but after five years of misery, Bethlehem is looking forward to a slightly happier Christmas. The birthplace of Jesus Christ has been the scene of some of...
