Morning Israel News Roundup - 2006-09-20
Sometimes we get exasperated questions from readers and friends. They'll call us and ask "Mere Rhetoric, how can it possibly be the case that European civilization - the civilization of Nietzsche, Napoleon, and Churchill - how can it possibly be the case that this civilization refuses to recognize that primitive, illiterate barbarians are mere years away from rampaging through and destroying testaments to human greatness that have been standing for two hundred, five hundred, two thousand years". And in response, we often say "well first of all, it's not nice to call them barbarians - that makes them angry, and then they act like barbarians... ditto for 'illiterate' - when you call them illiterate, they respond by forgetting to read - it works the same way... anyway, in answer to your question, we've actually figured it all out... you see - " and then we make the static noise and pretend that the cell phone reception cut out.
Anyway, here's a healthy serving of "we're all doomed", the breakfast of bloggers. How do you say bon bon appetit in Arabic?
* Hamas... you're never going to believe this... Hamas says... seriously, total surprise... Hamas says that they're backing out of the Arab League peace initiative. It turns out that they don't want to make peace with Israel after all.
* The Palestinians are still firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and Israeli civilians are still being wounded. HELLO? Is anybody listening? Rockets. Civilians. Every couple of days. Like in a war, except routinely.
* New AWACS enhances IAF's vision. Now they can see even more Hezbollah targets they're not allowed to fire at. Awesome.
* Off the Ha'aretz ticker: "11:26 Annan: Failure to end Mideast conflict will harm UN efforts to end other conflicts (AP)". Well maybe we could make some progress on that front if he'd stop feeding and housing a population of radicalized, intransigent, terrorist-supporting, fifth-generation "refugees" who think that if they wait long enough they'll get to overrun Israel. Tool.
* Military coup in Thailand. Tourists were taking pictures of the soldiers as they rolled into town to set up checkpoints and destroy democracy. JPost covers the coup, musing out loud that 'coups aren't that bad... sometimes they're useful... especially if your civilian government is corrupt and useless... if we were living like that, we'd sure want the army to coup...' It's not explicit, but it's in the rhetoric of the article.
* Israel's Jewish population has decreased in the last five years. We're going to be very skeptical the next time someone quotes that stupid "there's no demographic time bomb" study at us.
* Seriously, this anti-terror raid on West Bank terrorist financers happened two weeks ago, but they couldn't print it till now because of military censors. Which means you couldn't know about it unless you live in Israel, have a cell phone, and have ever been in the army.
Anyway, here's a healthy serving of "we're all doomed", the breakfast of bloggers. How do you say bon bon appetit in Arabic?
* Hamas... you're never going to believe this... Hamas says... seriously, total surprise... Hamas says that they're backing out of the Arab League peace initiative. It turns out that they don't want to make peace with Israel after all.
* The Palestinians are still firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and Israeli civilians are still being wounded. HELLO? Is anybody listening? Rockets. Civilians. Every couple of days. Like in a war, except routinely.
* New AWACS enhances IAF's vision. Now they can see even more Hezbollah targets they're not allowed to fire at. Awesome.
* Off the Ha'aretz ticker: "11:26 Annan: Failure to end Mideast conflict will harm UN efforts to end other conflicts (AP)". Well maybe we could make some progress on that front if he'd stop feeding and housing a population of radicalized, intransigent, terrorist-supporting, fifth-generation "refugees" who think that if they wait long enough they'll get to overrun Israel. Tool.
* Military coup in Thailand. Tourists were taking pictures of the soldiers as they rolled into town to set up checkpoints and destroy democracy. JPost covers the coup, musing out loud that 'coups aren't that bad... sometimes they're useful... especially if your civilian government is corrupt and useless... if we were living like that, we'd sure want the army to coup...' It's not explicit, but it's in the rhetoric of the article.
* Israel's Jewish population has decreased in the last five years. We're going to be very skeptical the next time someone quotes that stupid "there's no demographic time bomb" study at us.
* Seriously, this anti-terror raid on West Bank terrorist financers happened two weeks ago, but they couldn't print it till now because of military censors. Which means you couldn't know about it unless you live in Israel, have a cell phone, and have ever been in the army.
