Ireland is, both in population and land mass, a tiny country. As a result, the total number of daily deaths from Covid 19 in Ireland is unlikely – barring absolute catastrophe – ever to hit the horrifying four-figure numbers we’re getting close to seeing in the UK, and the USA, and Spain and Italy. Add […]
Dr. Gal Peleg, an Israeli doctor working in Italy’s coronavirus epicentre, has warned that many hospitals will no longer be giving respirators to anyone aged over sixty. Dr. Peleg who works in Parma, Italy, told Israeli Channel 12 news that respirator machines are in such limited supply that healthcare professionals need to strictly prioritise how […]
To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
When US Marines invaded Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2nd 2011, they brushed past his wife and children, moved upstairs to where the 9/11 mastermind was hiding, and shot him in the face. They then took his body with them to the USS Carl Vinson, the closest available aircraft carrier. There, […]
Reada Cronin, a newly elected Sinn Fein TD for Kildare North, regularly made controversial statements in the years before she was elected, including statements where she said she would be ‘unsurprised’ if ‘loads of judges’ were paedophiles; that she had thought a picture of monkeys in a building was a photo of the Israeli embassy […]
Donald Trump has said no Israelis or Palestinians would be uprooted from their homes if his Middle Eastern peace plan was adopted by both sides, but a proposed Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements might prove to be the biggest sticking point in the proposed two-state solution.
Netanyahu’s page had warned voters against voting for a government composed of “Arabs who want to destroy us all — women, children and men.”
Irish peacekeeping forces in the Lebanon came under munitions fire over the weekend from Israeli forces, as they returned fire after being attacked by Hezbollah militants. Israeli forces came under attack when Hezbollah launched anti-tank missiles at Israeli army positions. Israel also stated that an ambulance was attacked in the exchanges. The Irish UN peacekeeping […]