The AP’s new meme: Israelis are fat

You know, I can’t get a handle on the AP these days. They are utterly obsessed with the body fat ratio of the average Israeli, it seems.

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israelis began the eight-day festival of Hanukkah at sundown Sunday with a warning against overdoing the holiday culinary specialties from someone who should know – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Families gathered at sundown to light the first candle of the Hanukkah festival, which commemorates an ancient victory of Jewish forces in the Holy Land against foreign conquerors.

After the candle lighting, many families sat down to a traditional meal that included delights like fried potato pancakes and jelly-filled doughnuts.

Many assume they’ll gain weight during the festival, when children are off from school, families get together and – in the rainy days of winter – there is little else to do than sit and eat.

Well, at least they’re not as bad as the CBC. Their headline for the above story?

Israelis begin Hanukkah festival with warning against overeating

And to that I say: Latkes, latkes, latkes, and sufganiyot, sufganiyot, sufganiyot. In other words: Plptptptptptpt!