Is there a reason we've never read this site before? Other than the usual mix of hydrocodone ground up in vodka (not our fault - we read about it on Defamer!)? Smooth Stone is a 3 year old (somewhat JavaScript addicted) pro-Israel blog. Judging by the award banners on the right, we're about the only ones who don't have the site RSS'd. Positives: it is very content rich, and appears to be monitoring all the right sources so you don't have to (IMRA, MEMRI, etc). Downside: an affinity for starting posts with a Rush Limbaugh like "Folks". And no link to Mere Rhetoric.
Across much of the rest of the pro-Israel blogosphere - from liberal Americans to not so liberal Canadians - there is much wailing and knashing of teeth because Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to moderate the Likud. Since both of these sites are written by friends of MR, we'll try to ask this gently: wtf? Seriously, two words: polling data.
Over at KesherTalk, Judith Weiss is basically putting on a clinic on how to embarrass errant filmmakers who unwisely venture into seas they are wildly unequipped to navigate. As we sit here on the USC Annenberg porch (current time: 10:55pm, current temp: 61F), mere feet away from the Spielberg Music Scoring Stage, we think: geez, moral equivalence really is pretty stupid.