Points to Ponder

This is just Jeremy Clarkson’s regular Sunday Times column, this time a rather gross account of him checking himself for prostate cancer. I just thought I’d highlight a rather amusing comment of his.

‘But with knowledge gleaned solely from the BBC website — which almost certainly will blame the rise in popularity for prostate cancer on either the Israelis or global warming — and with nothing to hand except a soapy index finger, I’m afraid I wasn’t able to say whether whatever I’d found had cancer or was in rude good health’.

Cost of War

The Lebanon War Will Cost Israel NIS23 billion, that’s £2.7billion or $5.2billion. NIS12 billion is in direct costs and the downturn in economic output will wipe NIS9 billion off of GDP. The state will also pay NIS2 billion in emergency aid to affected regions.

Syria Transfers Arms to Hizballah During the War

This is the report I was referring to in an earlier post regarding continued Syrian connivance in the war

‘Syria continues its efforts to transfer large quantities of war materiel, including rockets, to Lebanon, in an effort to assist Hezbollah in its war against Israel, a senior Israel Defense Forces source told Haaretz on Saturday....

...Senior Syrian army and intelligence officers are involved in the arms smuggling, according to the senior IDF source, who says it is unlikely this continues without the explicit support of the regime in Damascus’.