Merely Tweeted, “If Only We Could Trick Qaddafi Into Building Settlements…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and a routine Smart Power (!!) update – Libya, North Korea, Israel, the Palestinians, etc – from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream:

Obama administration’s North Korea engagement going as swimmingly as rest of foreign policy http://is.gd/8nrqyU rok dprk

Poor babies. Turkey can’t finish satellite because of hostility to Israel and soft boycott of Israel defense firms http://is.gd/89z2DL

From “either with us or against us” to “if you’re with us we’re against you” in 2 years http://is.gd/Wy8aqJ

How democratic | RT @elderofziyon: EoZ: Egyptian army fires at Coptic monastery (video) http://goo.gl/fb/BmhQk

Kind of weird that the UN scandal of the week is that the US vetoed a resolution focusing on Israel, not that the UN was focusing on Israel

Palestinian Queers for BDS – real group – accusing Israel of “pinkwashing” colonialism bc Israel has gay rights but Pali’s don’t. I give up.

Of course they do | RT @GPOIsrael: Ynet: Palestinians want ‘day of rage’ against US – http://cot.ag/g2pPye

Too much tension with smart power! | RT @CiFWatch: What happened to standing by allies? http://goo.gl/fb/eVj5D

So I figure the White House doesn’t care about chilling US/Israel relationship bc US has so many allies to spare in the MidEast.

Charming AND original | RT @CAMERAorg: Palestinians expected to hold ‘day of rage’ against US veto http://is.gd/YyRlpO

US amb should complain! | RT @BreakingNews: Syria teen blogger accused of spying, given 5 yrs prison after closed hearing http://bit.ly/hnQkcJ

Why not throw in a pony? | RT @Jerusalem_Post: Abbas says Armenian Quarter belongs to Palestinians http://bit.ly/f77M9G

Between Lebanon, Egypt, it’s a banner year for US security asst |RT @GPOIsrael: Palestinian offers Hamas unity deal http://is.gd/qqPr3W

Too busy being hard on Israel | RT @rosnersdomain: Is the Obama administration soft on Gaddafi? http://is.gd/hAsByc

If we convince Obama that Iranian navy opposes public unions, I think we’ve got a chance of making him pay attn to ships in the Med

If only we could trick Qaddafi into building settlements, we’d finally get Obama to make a forceful condemnation