Love 'em or hate 'em... great message from Nickelback

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No text is worth a human life | Bankrate.com

"No call, no text, no update is worth a human life," said NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman in announcing the recommendation. "Needless lives are lost on our highways, and for what? Convenience? Death isn't convenient.

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Jonathan Kay reporting from Washington: America's Zionist mission | Full Comment | National Post

I haven't changed the title of the seed from the article; but, I'm not sure I agree with the use of the word "Zionist" here.

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Hamas set to reject violence: report | Full Comment | National Post

Hamas renouncing violence?  Uh, huh.  Anybody want a bridge, cheap?

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Israel and the Arab Awakening - NYTimes.com

Israel Cannot Afford to do Nothing

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Iran's escalating conflict with Gulf neighbours increases risk of war | News | National Post

Speculation Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear programme has been rife in the Israeli media and oil markets in recent weeks, with concerns that Tehran might retaliate with devastating attacks on Gulf oil shipments. But that debate, experts say, misses large parts of the  …

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Erol Araf: The day Tel Aviv died | Full Comment | National Post

Erol Araf describes what could happen if a single nuclear missile got through Israel’s defences:

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Jerry Amernic: Why we're forgetting the Holocaust | Full Comment | National Post

The understanding of the Shoah, the events that led up to it and the resulting changes in the geo-political world after the war, are being lost as it becomes less relevant to the youth of each passing generation. "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (p …

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It depends on your defi nition of 'peace'

For peace negotiations to succeed, it's not enough for both sides to want peace in the abstract. They must also ascribe the same meaning to the term - and the two sides in the Middle East do not.

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Shopping Malls Go Green in Israel | Green Prophet

The 80,000 sq meter building, scheduled to open its mid March, 2012, is being built with special glass “sky lights” in the upper floors to let it utilize natural lighting during the daytime. The AC system will be more energy saving and the water from condensation f …

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1000 Naked Israelis Strip to Save the Dead Sea | Green Prophet

This is so cool. 

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Nation & World | Egypt new PM claims more powers than predecessor | Seattle Times Newspaper

"The powers given to me exceed any similar mandates," he said, looking uncomfortable, grasping for words and repeatedly pausing as he spoke. "I will take full authority so I'm able to serve my country." and

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Nation & World | German war memorial features Nazi bell | Seattle Times Newspaper

I have to agree with the mayor on this one.  A sign explaining the significance/history of the bell should be added; but the bell should remain as an acknowledgement of the past.  A lesson learned, so to speak,

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Israel expects 'a grave erosion' of peace treaty with Egypt, Minister says: Peter Goodspeed | Full Comment | National Post

The peace treaty with Egypt has been a cornerstone of Israel’s security doctrine for three decades, guaranteeing relative quiet along its southern border and allowing Israel’s military to focus on threats elsewhere. Israel and Egypt’s militaries learned to co …

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Top 25 most-hacked passwords revealed - The Globe and Mail

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Forget Wall Street, Occupy Hollywood | Full Comment | National Post

Really good take on the OWS movement, and who they should be targetting

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Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas' founder, says there is no hope to reform Islam | Full Comment | National Post

Life as Israel’s unlikeliest spy When he published his book, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheik Hassan Yousef, also announced that for 10 years he had worked undercover as a collaborator for Israel’s internal security service

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Conrad Black: Middle East truth-telling, from an unlikely source | Full Comment | National Post

Simon Deng, the South Sudanese delegate at the recent Durban III conference on racism (in New York), shattered the hypocrisy of the anti-Israeli front one normally witnesses at such meetings. Mr.

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Anti- Semitism on the fringes of the Occupy Wall Streeters

It seems no protest is complete without Jew hatred

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Alan Dershowitz: Should Israel Have Agreed to Exchange Terrorists for a Kidnapped Soldier?

The Israeli government has agreed to release hundreds of properly convicted Palestinian terrorists in exchange for one illegally kidnapped Israeli soldier.

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'Palestinian spring has been born,' Abbas says | World | News | National Post

Even before Abbas’s flight from New York touched down in neighbouring Jordan, the Palestinian leader said that he would spurn an offer from the Quartet — the UN, the U.S., the European Union and Russia — to resume direct peace talks without preconditions withi …

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The return of the NDP's anti-Israel fringe

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Fouad Ajami: The U.N. Can't Deliver a Palestinian State - WSJ.com

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