No, I’m not talking about that kind of solicitor, I’m talking about the other kind of solicitor. The one who tells you what the law is. You may think you can shake us off, but the evidence shows we’ve been around for a lo-o-o-ong time, at least 3700 years. Researchers from the Hebrew University of [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in History, Law, Religion
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Tagged Akkadian, archaeology, Bava Kamma, Bible, Code of Hammurabi, cuneiform, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, History, Judaism, lawyers, lex talionis, Rabbis, restitution for wrongs, Talmud, Torah, tort, weregild
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Okay, I’ve just got to get this off my chest because it’s been bugging me for the last few days. Helen Thomas, famed White House reporter, retired suddenly after a controversial video interview on a website called RabbiLive.com, when she was asked whether she had any comments on Israel. She was reported to have said: [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in History, Media, Politics, Religion
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Tagged anti-Semitism, Helen Thomas, History, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Wales, WWII
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I’ve deliberately avoided discussion of the Gaza Flotilla issue, largely because it’s one of our ‘hot-button-issues-that-attracts-insane-loonies’ (along with AGW and abortion), but this deeply cynical but extremely well informed analysis from STRATFOR is simply too good to pass up. Money quote? This: Israel is now in uncharted waters. It does not know how to respond. It [...]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused foreign election observers of fraud during last year’s disputed vote. Fraud had been widespread, Mr Karzai conceded, but he blamed foreigners for it, saying the UN was its focal point. Mr Karzai singled out Peter Galbraith, the then deputy head of the UN mission, who he said had organised [...]
The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook. The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, Internet, Law, Politics, Religion
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Tagged binyamin netanyahu, Facebook, IDF, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, pope benedict, West Bank
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O wad some Power the gift tae gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion. From Robert Burns, To a Louse The course Burns commends has, of late, become unfashionable. Instead of observing others unlike ourselves and reporting back, we have been enjoined to [...]
February 18, 2010 – 2:53 am
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said there is no proof the Mossad spy agency carried out the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai. But he did not fully deny that Israel carried out the killing, citing its “policy of ambiguity” on such matters. Dubai believes 11 “agents with European passports” killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. [...]
February 15, 2010 – 6:30 am
This story has been something of a slow burn over here, but it’s starting to gain a bit of momentum now, to the stage where the implications are actually pretty awful: A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims. [...]
December 12, 2009 – 9:15 pm
It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence that he had weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair has said. The former UK prime minister said it was the “notion” of Saddam as a threat to the region which tilted him in favour of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. [...]
