Theresa McDermont came to Israel to pick olives with Palestinian farmers for one month. Instead, she has been sitting in a detention cell for 12 days at Ben-Gurion airport.
McDermont, a Scottish post office worker, said she hoped to be a volunteer for Rabbis for Human Rights, the organization that runs the olive harvest project designed to help Palestinian farmers cultivate land near the Green Line.
Liar. Especially coming the day after France's shameful vote FOR yesterday's biased anti-Israel draft UNSC Resolution):
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin offered unwavering French support Sunday for Israel amid security threats, but criticized Israeli military flights over Lebanese territory.
France “Stands resolutely at the side of Israel†in the midst of new flare-ups in Mideast violence, and Israeli security will require an end to conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Villepin said. “The halt to all violence is indispensable,†he told a meeting of the World Jewish Congress’ governing board, meeting for the first time in Paris.
Now this is good. Very good. If it pans out, let's hope everyone doesn't thank Israel all at once:
HAIFA, Israel, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Israeli process for producing energy from oil shale will cut its oil imports by one-third, and will serve as a guide for other countries with oil shale deposits, according to one company.
A.F.S.K. Hom Tov presented its oil shale processing method on Tuesday, outside Haifa and just down the street from one of the country's two oil refinery facilities.
"Because the patents for this process belong to (the company), Israel is the most advanced in the world in the effort to create energy from oil shale," Moshe Shahal, a Hom Tov legal representative and a former Israeli energy minister, told United Press International.
Shahal estimated that the company's Negev Desert facility would begin full-scale production in three to four years, while other countries with oil shale deposits will need five to six years to reach production.
Pollard video. The commentary is a bit overdramatic, and there's no news here, but visual aids are sometimes helpful:
VIDEO - Ron Olive, the FBI agent who apprehended Jonathan Pollard has released footage taken from a surveillance camera showing the convicted spy taking suitcases full of top secret documents to his Israeli operatives.
“This is Pollard actually in the act of stealing highly classified information," says Olive during the presentation, "1500 top secret documents in a matter of seconds."
Meanwhile, Elaine Zeitz Esther Pollard seems to think she's picking up President Bush's brain waves on her ham radio. Or something:
US President George W. Bush would release Jonathan Pollard, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is deliberately ignoring the issue, Pollard's wife, Esther, said Sunday ahead of Olmert's meeting with Bush in Washington.
"It's terrible," Esther told Army Radio. "[Olmert] doesn't pay a bit of attention to his agent, and he's going to meet Bush, and knows that Bush would release him if Olmert officially asked him to."
Stanger than fiction.
