Links for January 28th

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 28th:

Host of UN Holocaust memorial skips event after U.S. Jews threaten walk-out - Haaretz - Israel News - Pathetic.

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: "Your Era, O Bin Baz" - Angry Arab on fomer Saudi mufti Bin Baz, who makes it at the very top of my shit-list, the retard pedophile bastard.

Magharebia.com | Al-Qaeda denies rumoured Algeria "Black Death" outbreak - Black death rumor may not be true. I never worry about being sick, but am terrified of the plague.

Report: Gaza detainees held bound for days - Israel News, Ynetnews - "We were handcuffed and blindfolded. They put us in a three-meter deep ditch with some 70 other people," Majdi Muhammad Ayid al-Atar, 43, from northern Gaza described in his testimony. "We spent two days there without any food, water or blankets. They also didn't let us go to the toilet. Afterwards they moved us to another ditch. The soldiers kept beating anyone who dared ask for anything," he recounted.

Hamas slams France for sending frigate to Gaza - Yahoo! News - If the Israelis need foreign ships to enforce arms embargo, why do they talk about tunnels so much?

The Arabist