Wandering around downtown Nablus the shops and restaurants I saw were full. There were plenty of expensive cars on the streets. Indeed I counted considerably more BMWs and Mercedes than I've seen, for example, in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. ... The shops and restaurants were also full when I visited Hebron recently, and I was surprised to see villas comparable in size to those on the Cote d'Azur or Bel Air had sprung up on the hills around the city. Life is even better in Ramallah, where it is difficult to get a table in a good restaurant. New apartment buildings, banks, brokerage firms, luxury car dealerships and health clubs are to be seen. In Qalqilya, another West Of course, not all sceptics are worth listening to, either. If we are to be sceptical about the work of reputable and learned meterologists [sic] and palaeoclimatologists then we must be all the more so about the counter-claims of their armchair critics. No impartial observer could fail to note that this debate has a formidable array of international scientists on one side, and (with some notable exceptions) noisier, less qualified pundits on the other. No impartial observer could fail to note that this is total codswallop. A formidable array of no fewer than 700+ international scientists, a number of them current or former participants in the IPCC, have registered their scepticism of the theory...
Thursday, 3rd December 2009
What the Palestine Solidarity Campaign unleashes
6:27pm
This is the kind of Judeophobic bigotry attracted by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -- whose event on Tuesday night was hosted at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church. For shame.The good life on the West Bank
5:51pm
In the Wall Street Journal, Tom Gross provides an eye-opening antidote to the usual boilerplate fantasies about Palestinian deprivation:
...Less than qualified punditry
4:59pm
A particularly asinine editorial in the Timestoday opines, in the wake of the global warming scandal at the University of East Anglia:
Thursday, 3 December 2009
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