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Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 20th of August 2006 at 09:09:32 PM
So says this week’s The Economist cover story. A quote from the opening paragraph:
Israel’s prime minister set himself an absurd aim�the complete demolition of Hizbullah’s power in Lebanon�and failed to achieve it. The shrewder Mr Nasrallah said victory would consist merely of surviving, and Hizbullah, however battered, did survive.
They want to be [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 20th of August 2006 at 08:49:46 PM
I truly prefer fascinated, perhaps intrigued. In my morning news prowling I came across an article in YNet about a gay porn star, Michael Lucas, make that a gay jewish porn star (a world’s first? Gay Jews are everywhere! Did you hear about this?) I make no comment about him or his lifestyle/profession, but here [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 18th of August 2006 at 09:28:18 PM
It is images like this, from NYTimes, that make me howl at the computer! I am assuming that the fence is somewhere on the southern boarder with Israel. This is not going to be the end of the influence of Hezballah has on this region, the state with in a state is note gone. You [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 30th of January 2006 at 10:37:38 PM
Cool notes about Israel:
People say Shabbat Shalom as a greeting on Fridays and Saturdays Jesus fish are all but non existent (thank G-d) Hotels have synagogues Drink the fresh juice, it is amazing, and everywhere For urban coffee lovers don’t miss Aroma, they are everywhere Guns are everywhere; a certain class of Russian seems [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Saturday, 17th of April 2004 at 11:04:14 PM
Idan has been traveling through Mexico for over a month and was around the Cancun area. I looked online and found a good deal to go visit him for a 4 days weekend. In total the trip would cost about 300$. I figured staying in a resort would give him nice break from his backpacking [...]