I wonder where these were headed, exactly?
Turkey says it has seized a large quantity of missiles, rocket launchers and other arms from a ship which was heading from Ukraine to Egypt.
Customs officials said the weapons were found in two containers after the ship was searched at the port of Ambarli on the north shore of the Sea of Marmara.
The ship's crew was arrested and an investigation was launched.
Here, perhaps?
Here's a truly fascinating item.
The Palestinian Ministry of Information has officially started referring to border area between the Gaza Strip and Egypt as Salah a-Din instead of Philadelphi, in response to the protests of a Rafah children's organization.
The demand was made Wednesday by the Palestinian Children Parliament in Rafah, a forum dedicated to children and modeled on the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Yes, I'll wager the "children" thought this one up all by themselves. How cute.
The "parliament" urged the Palestinian and Arab media to use the Arab name of Salah a-Din, the 12th-century Muslim warrior who conquered much of modern Israel from the crusaders, to describe the strip. It accused Israel of seeking to "obliterate the history and culture of southern Palestine" by changing the Arab names of some areas.
It also said the decision to use the name Philadelphi was similar to the Israeli attempt to call the Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem as the Temple Mount.
Is Khaled Abu Toameh pulling our leg here? What, pray tell, was the historical Arab name for the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt that Israel "changed" by adopting the name "Philadelphi?" 'Cause this Salah a-Din thing is a brand new invention there.
And by what slight of mind could these mental microbes convince themselves that Har HaBayit (Temple Mount), a name that's been used for around 2500 years to describe the singular edifice that once stood there, could possibly represent an attempt to "obliterate a history and culture" (let alone a building) that's less than half that old. The mind boggles.
