Not in our mandate…
I was looking at various news service websites last night, shortly after 4 UN observers were killed (incidentally, shortly after Jan Egeland, the UN’s humanitarian official reported that the Israeli response was disproportionate and stated that “Civilian infrastructure is protected. The law is very clear. You cannot have any interpretation in any other way.”). BBC [...]
Red Sun
Superman Returns is fantastic. As in, Batman Begins fantastic. (I actually think it’s a bit better than BB but it’s a very different film to be honest). The film is a more troubled than Superman 1 and 2 (it’s predecessors; 3 and 4 have been ignored, which is fair enough), a bit more questioning, yet [...]
Say what?
Israel has warned Lebanon not to fire on Israeli aircraft. If your aircraft were invading my sovereign airspace, bombing my capital, my roads, power, bridges… I’d sure as hell shoot back.
Mumblemumble – mumble.
Oh yes. Oh yes oh yes.
Al-Nakba
Sandy Tolan writes an extremely well-informed article on the current crisis in Palestine today, and how it is related to al-Nakba, the Catastrophe July 11, 2006 | Under the pretext of forcing the release of a single soldier “kidnapped by terrorists” (or, if you prefer, “captured by the resistance”), Israel has done the following: seized [...]
Aah, la France
Honestly a shame, after having a spectacularly successful career, to go out like this.
The Ring
Well, just got back from the Nurburgring on Sunday night… and what a joyous experience it was too. My car handled beautifully, even better than I had expected… and thanks to the World Cup, the Nordschliefe was practically empty on Saturday. Friday night, I took the train over to Calais and met up with a [...]
