Morning (J)Blog Roundup - 2006-09-18
* AK Sommer says they're throwing a tantrum. Meryl says to call them the Religion of Whiny Children (with weapons). Muqata says they behave like two year olds.
* Speaking of infantile schoolyard tactics, a little while ago the United States has suggested that maybe Iran shouldn't be allowed in the UN (mostly because Iran violated the condition for entry into the UN, which is that you don't threaten to wipe out other member states). In response - we couldn't make this up - Ahmadinejad said "I am rubber, you are glue" and is demanding that the US get thrown out of the United Nations instead. Finally, American conservatives and Islamist lunatics find common ground.
* Unlike Pamela, we do think that Red Hot Chili Peppers is torture. Her post is super cheerful. We especially call your attention to the part where Bernard Lewis commented last week that "I can't help thinking that if Churchill had to face the obstruction and opposition that Bush now faces, that we probably wouldn't have won the war". Bernard Lewis has never been wrong. About anything.
* Another pro-Israel blogger falls for the old Hamas/Fatah civil war tease. Not gonna happen. We don't care if the unity government is on hold - even they're not dumb enough to screw this up.
* With due respect to rightist Israeli bloggers - an Olmert-Peretz-Livini land-for-peace deal? Seriously, this is what we're worried about? And it's going to pass a referendum in what country? Massive terrorist enabling prisoner exchange maybe. And that's just maybe.
* We've been remiss in not linking to Israellycool's ongoing gallery of lazy clusterfucks that is the new UNIFIL force structure. And when they're not doing nothing, they're providing LGF with powerful visual metaphors.
* We don't want to jinx anything, but some non-Muslim religious leaders in some places are starting to wake up. Alas, the Jews are being punished for something. We think you really far right Jewish lunatics wrong - Sharon's illness wasn't punishment for disengagement. Chief Rabbi Amar is the punishment for disengagement. It's the extra eight days of rice in their diet - the carbs just go right to the brain.
* Soccer Dad: Firestorm. Seriously, someone give the Palestinians East Jerusalem. They + Christian Holy Places = Awesome.
* Ed Lasky with links and analysis about the daughter of Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA). The lobbyist-employed-by-the-Saudi-government daughter of Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA). If the Walt-Mearsheimer-Duke thesis about Israeli control was based on argument and rationality, this news would really be a problem for them.
* Vital Perspective is always a source for intriguing questions. Reading this article, for instance, made us ask ourselves "what does someone even do with 2,200 of Ammonium Nitrate"? Turns out, you make bombs out of it. Really big bombs, apparently.
* Nasrallah says he's coming out of hiding because he intends to join the global jihad against the Pope. No, just kidding. But wouldn't that have been awesome? He is coming out of his rathole though.
* Meryl compliments the AP on discovering Middle East Christians. The AP is a little late to the party though - in the West Bank towns that witnessed Jesus's ministry, the Christian presence has almost been eliminated. Last figures we saw - and we don't know how accurate they are, but they're probably quite close - is that Christians are down to 1.7% of the Palestinian population.
* George Allen - this guy makes John Kerry look like Ronald Reagan. Seriously, wtf?
* Speaking of infantile schoolyard tactics, a little while ago the United States has suggested that maybe Iran shouldn't be allowed in the UN (mostly because Iran violated the condition for entry into the UN, which is that you don't threaten to wipe out other member states). In response - we couldn't make this up - Ahmadinejad said "I am rubber, you are glue" and is demanding that the US get thrown out of the United Nations instead. Finally, American conservatives and Islamist lunatics find common ground.
* Unlike Pamela, we do think that Red Hot Chili Peppers is torture. Her post is super cheerful. We especially call your attention to the part where Bernard Lewis commented last week that "I can't help thinking that if Churchill had to face the obstruction and opposition that Bush now faces, that we probably wouldn't have won the war". Bernard Lewis has never been wrong. About anything.
* Another pro-Israel blogger falls for the old Hamas/Fatah civil war tease. Not gonna happen. We don't care if the unity government is on hold - even they're not dumb enough to screw this up.
* With due respect to rightist Israeli bloggers - an Olmert-Peretz-Livini land-for-peace deal? Seriously, this is what we're worried about? And it's going to pass a referendum in what country? Massive terrorist enabling prisoner exchange maybe. And that's just maybe.
* We've been remiss in not linking to Israellycool's ongoing gallery of lazy clusterfucks that is the new UNIFIL force structure. And when they're not doing nothing, they're providing LGF with powerful visual metaphors.
* We don't want to jinx anything, but some non-Muslim religious leaders in some places are starting to wake up. Alas, the Jews are being punished for something. We think you really far right Jewish lunatics wrong - Sharon's illness wasn't punishment for disengagement. Chief Rabbi Amar is the punishment for disengagement. It's the extra eight days of rice in their diet - the carbs just go right to the brain.
* Soccer Dad: Firestorm. Seriously, someone give the Palestinians East Jerusalem. They + Christian Holy Places = Awesome.
* Ed Lasky with links and analysis about the daughter of Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA). The lobbyist-employed-by-the-Saudi-government daughter of Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA). If the Walt-Mearsheimer-Duke thesis about Israeli control was based on argument and rationality, this news would really be a problem for them.
* Vital Perspective is always a source for intriguing questions. Reading this article, for instance, made us ask ourselves "what does someone even do with 2,200 of Ammonium Nitrate"? Turns out, you make bombs out of it. Really big bombs, apparently.
* Nasrallah says he's coming out of hiding because he intends to join the global jihad against the Pope. No, just kidding. But wouldn't that have been awesome? He is coming out of his rathole though.
* Meryl compliments the AP on discovering Middle East Christians. The AP is a little late to the party though - in the West Bank towns that witnessed Jesus's ministry, the Christian presence has almost been eliminated. Last figures we saw - and we don't know how accurate they are, but they're probably quite close - is that Christians are down to 1.7% of the Palestinian population.
* George Allen - this guy makes John Kerry look like Ronald Reagan. Seriously, wtf?
