One Jerusalem Radio's Omri Ceren Show goes on the air in a little under an hour. Remember that to hear it live - and to participate - you need to go to the show's main page here. Continuing with this morning's "let's see how this goes" theme, I won't be doing a full guest interview for the first time ever. You're not totally getting abandoned - Dan Diker is still dropping in for 15 minutes of updates and analysis - but the rest of the show will be handed over to news and commentary.

Scheduled topics Dan will be discussing: (1) the renewed diplomatic push on Syria and why - if everything works out perfectly - it'll merely end up being a huge waste of time and (2) the train wreck that is zero Israeli public diplomacy plus the Goldstone Report plus a global anti-Israel delegitimization campaign of unprecedented venom. That would make this the third or fourth week in a row where a different security expert emphasizee that public diplomacy is a strategic necessity for Israel. On the plus side there's no way you're getting bored, since every time this comes up there's a different way Israeli oversights have limited the Jewish States's wartime options. So there's that.

The rest of the show will be the usual scattershot pile of international and domestic controversies, albeit with a skeptical eye towards arguments like "it's not Islam that's behind how the overwhelming number of terrorists are Muslims, it's just extremism in general." Definitely on the agenda: Obama's "dismay" that Jews would try to return to areas in East Jerusalem that Jordan had ethnically cleansed, the unhinged left's obsessive sexist hatred of Palin, the WH's weird habit of suppressing intelligence on Syria and Iran so liberals can keep up their engagement fantasies, and a bunch more. The words "bow" and "grovel" and the phrase "pathetic obsequious scraping" might come up.

The chat room will be open and the phone lines will be active. We're looking for questions, comments, and criticisms. In nothing else today's episode should give you a good idea on how you want to vote in the "What Should TOCS Change" poll.

References:
* Netanyahu To Obama: Actually, We're Going To Keep Letting Jews Build Homes In Jerusalem [MR]
* Progressive Democrats To Palin: Get Back In The Kitchen [MR]
* The Omri Ceren Show - Martin Sherman Wrap Up, Changes To The Show (POLL!) [MR]

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