So it turns out, the food at Heathrow sucks. Truth in stereotypes we suppose.
In unrelated news, go read all of this:

It seems that allowing university-funded student organizations to hire speakers who openly advocate violent anti-Semitism and terrorism is causing students to become... violent anti-Semites and terrorists:

This shouldn't be surprising. The kind of viciousness regularly on display at UCI Muslim Student Union events doesn't emerge in a vacuum - it represents a sensibility built on the ground of very particular beliefs about Jews, Israel, and the US government. It's unsurprising that, constantly bombarded by the most vulgar anti-Semitism, students would become anti-Semites.
Even if the militant speakers who regularly speak at UCI Muslim events failed to convince even a single student to become a terrorist, the environment created by the students groups would still provide a perfect hiding place for terrorism - a place where the terrorists could hide in plain sight. Many of the Islamofascists brought to the UCI campus are too careful to advocate armed confrontation (although unbelievably some are confident enough to occasionally let even that mask drop). But even MSU-sponsored speakers and events did not advocate violent confrontation, they advocate virtually every other thing that actual terrorists believe. That speakers occasionally slip up and actually cross the line into advocating violence makes them indistinguishable from actual terrorists - which definitionally makes the cesspool that is UCI's Islamofascist community the perfect hiding place for terrorists.

When former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to implement the Gaza disengagement plan, there were a lot of different justifications given by his administration and by his administration's informal spokespeople. We thought most of them were false - we never thought that the international community would bring itself to support the Jewish State for any length of time, and we certainly didn't think that the Palestinians would deign to stop trying to kill Jews. But we were convinced that the critics who insisted on the mendacity of the international community were also bound to recognize the inevitable consequences of that mendacity - that is, the inevitability that, if Israel didn't act unilaterally, Israeli leaders would be pressured to withdraw anyway later if not sooner. Incidentally, we also hoped that Sharon would be able to walk the tightrope to a final consolidation of Israel's boundaries... but as we all know, fate intervened in a particularly unkind way. We also hoped - as we believe Sharon knew - that given any significant responsibility Palestinian society would be exposed as unable to sustain a state and as broadly supportive of terrorism.
In late 2005, Aluf Benn criticized precisely this attitude toward the Palestinians - an attitude we were relatively more comfortable with:

Yet two days ago, Charles Johnson opined that it’s very difficult to argue that the Gaza disengagement was a success..
Oh, we're not so sure about that:

We're quite ready to admit that the disengagement has damaged Israel's deterrent and that there has been an increase in terrorism - even that Al Qaeda has established a foothold in the Gaza Strip. Charles ends with ostensibly the most damaging consequence: the disengagement "probably contributed to the election of the Hamas government". Well, what's so bad about that? Given that there seems to be a general consensus on the right that there is broad support for terrorism on the Palestinian street, how exactly is the very public declaration of such support uniquely bad? If Fatah was Hamas by another name - and they are - and if Fatah was doing slowly and without general acknowledgment what Hamas does blatantly - and they were - just the acknowledgment of such dynamics would be valuable. And now it seems that terrorist factions are fighting each other as well as Israel.
Conservatives regularly celebrate how the Reagan administration maneuvered Iraq and Iran into a debilitating war during the 1980s. We're pretty sure that we can find posts on LGF celebrating the US military's strategy of turning indigenous Iraqi insurgents against foreign terrorists. The strategy that was good for President Reagan and is good for President Bush doesn't cease being good for Israeli Prime Ministers.

Our new HateWatch post is now online at Winds Of Change.NET

This entry's highlighted topics include extensive commentary on some of the more acute bigotry, anti-Semitism, and outright idiocy from April 2006:

* Religious Hate: Global Islamist mass murder in India, Egypt, Iraq, and Israel; Hindu holy building destroyed in Malaysia; Saudi cleric seeks fairness, balance for Hitler; New terrorist announcements raise unsettling possibility that extremist Muslims hate Jews, not just Israel; Pakistani snuff films very popular; Pathological, disgusting consequences of Islamist debasement of women; Widespread Swedish, European capitulation to Islamism; Anti-Christian violence in Egypt

* Idiotarian Seethings: Pro-illegal-immigrant marches fail to inspire icons of patriotism; Anti-war marchers openly admit: we're here for the therapy; College students publicly take off clothes for reasons almost as dumb as Mardi Gras beads; Ann Coulter smacks around Alec Baldwin; Islamists support, aid pro-illegal-immigrant marches; NBC searches NASCAR for bigoted rednecks

* Race and Culture: Dutch turn on Ayaan Hirsi Ali in last ditch effort to appease Islamists, Hitchens calls for minimum show of support for Ali; American film and TV companies become pathetic apologists for terrorism; Muslim students show Paradise Now in protest of libertarian panel complaining that it's OK to excuse terrorism, but not to do anything that offends Muslims; Nation of Islam moral crusader attacks bouncer to get access to strippers; Major Australian paper: guy who wants to chop up Prime Minister may - or may not - be a terrorist; Legitimacy of anti-Semitic insinuations mysteriously spreads in wake of Mearsheimer and Walt paper; New York Times: Jews really are chimps; Extreme Leftists don't read so good; Intimidation against Rightist bloggers; Colbert bombs; WaPo discovers Jihadist rap

* A Hopeful Note: Fighting anti-Semitism in the academy; Anti-terror marches in Belgium; Anti-terror marches in Egypt; Support for Salman Rushdie; Catholic Church increasingly wary of Islamism

Maybe they should have thought of that earlier:

Hey, but at least the Gil party is in the government! Way to send a message to The Establishment, kids.

Ann Coulter's new column is about the all but open Leftist indoctrination that is the American academy. That might not have any relevance to you, but it's the most immediate excuse we could find for posting this two year old link, which only dropped into our mailbox this morning:

Wow. We would never have come down so hard on B'nai B'rith for being a politically correct waste of space if we knew they were doing all this good stuff too. Sinister Zionist student organization indeed.

Charming.
For the record, the "dire consequence" was a Title VI lawsuit against the University for allowing institutionalized anti-Semitism to spread throughout the campus - a lawsuit that the ZOA will win. When they do, that victory will probably have something to do with how UCI seems to be in the practice of taking interviews with hate groups who write about how "the Jews" are causing trouble and threaten that people are about to "lose patience with them". It'll also have a lot to do with the whole their Muslim student groups fund violent anti-Semites thing, too.
And here's the Coulter connection: UC Irvine rakes in millions and millions of government dollars every year - only to have hate groups amplifying the University's position that Jewish students are the ones antagonizing Muslims. That's when the money isn't being used to pay for openly anti-American classes.

In "story" that counts as "news" only for people with amnesia and for very small infants, Islamic Jihad announces no stop to terrorism:

Well, now that that's announced, we can stop maniacally refreshing Google News. Because we were on needles all morning, wondering which way it would break.

A mostly Christian nation with a relatively secular government threatens a Muslim theocracy. Reult? Threaten to wipe out Jews:

But who knows - maybe negotiations will work.
Also, maybe we'll walk into our living room and it will be filled with ponies and rainbows.

We interrupt hour 17 of writing an argumentation paper to bring you this bad argument from Canada:

They're right that this has nothing to do with Veffer's religious beliefs. But it has everything to do with the international community's fetishistic insistence that randomly humiliating Israel through legalistic rituals makes them seem credible. Seriously, it's very important for Canada to remain an honest broker. If they're really lucky, this vapid gesture may give them the last ounce of credibility to bring Israel and Hamas to the bargaining table. Because that's what's standing in the way of a reinvigorated peace process: Canada's willingness to insult Israelis.