Religion of Peace Wakes Up Grumpy
So its still very early morning in the Middle East, but it seems that the Religion of Peace has forgotten to put on its public-relations makeup this morning:
An Israeli official said that Israel received a letter from Libya in which it states its decision to halt all contacts, reported the London-based daily al-Asharq al-Awsat on Friday.
The letter contained "strong language" and expressed Libya's anger with Israel over the leaking of information regarding alleged meetings between Libyan and Israeli officials in Europe, which Libya strictly denies, wrote al-Sharq al-Awsat.
A senior official in the Israeli Foreign Ministry told al-Sharq al-Awsat that Libya's letter was "a harsh blow to Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's efforts to open a new chapter in Israel's relations with Arab countries."
Dejafoo political prediction - look for FM Silvan Shalom to get quite rightly blasted in the next couple days for bungling this. Everyone's busy blasting Libya for being duplicitous right now, but he'll get his. Seriously, can't this government keep the most basic of secrets? First it was the leak about the Iraq war, now this.
At this rate, who knows what the rest of the day will hold?
UPDATE: As if on cue, here's this morning's touching cartoon from the frontpage of the Arab News, (via Allah Is In The House, with more details on the incident from Jihad Watch):
Dejafoo will award a prize (although, you should know, not a very good one) to the reader who finds the most number of distinct anti-Semitic themes in this picture. The current number to beat is 4.
