(J)Blog Roundup - 2006-10-19
You know what we like about the UN? Nothing.
* Richard Landes is blogging his own TNR article about the Al Durah maybe-death maybe-not-so-much-death scandal. That's totally meta.
* If anyone wants to see Anne Lieberman get all gooey and maternal, now's about the ideal time. Icky.
* Michelle Malkin's adjective "unhinged" is among the best of the various attempts to isolate and encapsulate the psychological tangle of pretense and resentment that is the Ugly Left. Jim Hoft has a roundup of leftist MSM coverage, including a quote from Newt Gingrich that is quite to the point on this.
* Is Daled Amos right? Is Jimmy Carter really about to publish a book accusing Israel of apartheid? Looks like it. The similarity is clear - just think of all those independent states with border rights, tax privileges, and representation that South Africa offered its black population.
* We like Israellycool, but this is just unfair. Peres was mocking the press's wailing about how no one in Israel had the international credibility to be President by pointing out that - more or less - they were idiots because he has massive credibility. That doesn't mean that gaining international credibility is his goal. It means that, to the extent that helping Israel is his goal, he thinks that it's important that Israelis know they have someone on their side who is welcome in the halls of European power.
* Thousands of Mac geeks crushed to death every year? What can we do to help?
* Is it wrong to hope for an unconventional attack on a US stadium this weekend so we have an excuse for why we didn't finish our papers? You're sure? No wiggle room on this? Sigh.
* France believes that Iran is a force of stability in the Middle East. Israel Matsav is passing on a YNet report (read: not totally not credible) saying that there's proof that Iran paid Hamas fifty million dollars not to release Shalit. You may draw your own conclusions about whether France is stupid or mendacious, but we urge you not to exclude the possibility that it could be both.
* President Bush has thrown his weight behind Secretary Rice's insistence that Israel negotiate about and give broad concessions regarding land under Israeli military occupation. Wow, we guess we'll have to apologize to all those people who said we were crazy to say that international pressure on Israel to evacuate from Gaza was inevitable in even the best circumstances, and that said pressure would be broader than the specific issues of land. Or at least, someone in that debate has to admit they were wrong.
* Ahh, basic logic. An old foe for many on the international Left. Memo to Gorbachev: a wall built by country A to keep people inside country A is fundamentally different than a wall built by country B to keep people from country A out. They're differnet letters and everything
* Terror attempts against Israeli civilians continue almost without pause.
* Israel Matsav joins the chorus of jbloggers rounded up yesterday who think that a full-scale invasion of Gaza in imminent. When it happens, the NYT spin will be that Olmert is trying to regain domestic support after the 'disastrous war in Lebanon, which saw his poll numbers drop to the lowest levels in recent Israeli history'. Are we're not joking about that being the headline - we bet that within 24 hours of an invasion, we'll be able to find 5 distinct articles using that phrase or something almost exactly identical to it.
* Richard Landes is blogging his own TNR article about the Al Durah maybe-death maybe-not-so-much-death scandal. That's totally meta.
* If anyone wants to see Anne Lieberman get all gooey and maternal, now's about the ideal time. Icky.
* Michelle Malkin's adjective "unhinged" is among the best of the various attempts to isolate and encapsulate the psychological tangle of pretense and resentment that is the Ugly Left. Jim Hoft has a roundup of leftist MSM coverage, including a quote from Newt Gingrich that is quite to the point on this.
* Is Daled Amos right? Is Jimmy Carter really about to publish a book accusing Israel of apartheid? Looks like it. The similarity is clear - just think of all those independent states with border rights, tax privileges, and representation that South Africa offered its black population.
* We like Israellycool, but this is just unfair. Peres was mocking the press's wailing about how no one in Israel had the international credibility to be President by pointing out that - more or less - they were idiots because he has massive credibility. That doesn't mean that gaining international credibility is his goal. It means that, to the extent that helping Israel is his goal, he thinks that it's important that Israelis know they have someone on their side who is welcome in the halls of European power.
* Thousands of Mac geeks crushed to death every year? What can we do to help?
* Is it wrong to hope for an unconventional attack on a US stadium this weekend so we have an excuse for why we didn't finish our papers? You're sure? No wiggle room on this? Sigh.
* France believes that Iran is a force of stability in the Middle East. Israel Matsav is passing on a YNet report (read: not totally not credible) saying that there's proof that Iran paid Hamas fifty million dollars not to release Shalit. You may draw your own conclusions about whether France is stupid or mendacious, but we urge you not to exclude the possibility that it could be both.
* President Bush has thrown his weight behind Secretary Rice's insistence that Israel negotiate about and give broad concessions regarding land under Israeli military occupation. Wow, we guess we'll have to apologize to all those people who said we were crazy to say that international pressure on Israel to evacuate from Gaza was inevitable in even the best circumstances, and that said pressure would be broader than the specific issues of land. Or at least, someone in that debate has to admit they were wrong.
* Ahh, basic logic. An old foe for many on the international Left. Memo to Gorbachev: a wall built by country A to keep people inside country A is fundamentally different than a wall built by country B to keep people from country A out. They're differnet letters and everything
* Terror attempts against Israeli civilians continue almost without pause.
* Israel Matsav joins the chorus of jbloggers rounded up yesterday who think that a full-scale invasion of Gaza in imminent. When it happens, the NYT spin will be that Olmert is trying to regain domestic support after the 'disastrous war in Lebanon, which saw his poll numbers drop to the lowest levels in recent Israeli history'. Are we're not joking about that being the headline - we bet that within 24 hours of an invasion, we'll be able to find 5 distinct articles using that phrase or something almost exactly identical to it.
