Day November 24, 2006

From the NY Times An Israeli advocacy group, using maps and figures leaked from inside the government, says that 39 percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians. Link via…

Six Sunnis leaving a mosque were burned alive with kerosene in an apparently random reprisal for yesterday’s bombings in the Shia area of Baghdad. (Title of this post is a lyric from ‘War Pigs’ by Black Sabbath)

It was deliberate poisoning, according to health officials. In a message released after his death, Litvinenko blamed his death on Putin.

Israel – by a wide margin too, no other country was even close to being ranked as badly in this international survey. P.S. For all the talk of ‘Islamo-fascism’, the only fascist party ever to have emerged in the Middle…

Starting January 23, US citizens will need a passport to return from Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. If you don’t have one, you can apply at selected Post Offices. Lines are expected to be long given a last minute passport…