21 Jul
The haunting tune in the reproduction of my post on Israel is called “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” which means “Jerusalem of Gold” when translated.
If you’d like more information on the song, please visit this site dedicated entirely to the song.Footnote: For the movie buffs, this song was featured at the ending of Schindler’s List.
21 Jul
The Middle-East conflict is not about Israel’s ‘occupation’ of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The entire premise of the Middle-East conflict is about the Arabs not wishing to see any Zionist state, i.e. that Israel must not exist and must be eliminated.
And this premise is, under no disguise, a call for the Second Holocaust, one bigger and more terrible than the first which the Jews suffered under the Nazis.
Yet no mainstream media report has ever brought up this fact.
20 Jul
Not many people actually know this, but a team of rogue developers at Microsoft has developed what might perhaps be the most exciting offline blogging tool (to me at least).
Called Windows Live Writer (WLW), the tool is currently in Beta 2, and already has me actually singing the praises of a Microsoft development team and product in just under a few minutes test-running it.
19 Jul
Back in July, on Independence Day, I wrote a piece which highlighted the fact that Americans are slowly but surely losing civil liberties under the current Bush administration. Unfortunately, I did not archive that and it’s lost now.
What is present, though, is the fact that as of July 17, President George W. Bush has declared it legal for the Federal Government to block the properties of persons under U.S. law if they have been found to have undermined “efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people”.
18 Jul
The Waqf Muslim religious trust is using an excavator to “dig a ditch from the northern side of the Temple Mount compound to the Dome of the Rock as a prelude to infrastructure work in the area, generating protests from archaeologists”.
Archaeologists are arguing that, by using an excavator to dig the ditch, there is danger that precious ancient artifacts dating back to the time of King David and Solomon might be destroyed, and with them, priceless information that could be gleaned from these artifacts on Jewish history.
17 Jul
16 Jul
In perhaps the biggest study carried out into sexual motivations, psychologists say they have identified 236 reasons why people have sex.
Besides the obvious reason for enjoying a roll in the hay, i.e. love and intimacy, the 235 other motivations include relief of boredom, keeping warm on a chilly night, help in falling asleep, and even the spiritual where at least one respondent said it brings him or her closer to God.
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