There’s only time for Snark News Briefs this morning.
Soldiers won’t eat in front of Palestinians: That headline does not mean what you think it means. No, it’s not another damning report from another European-funded, Palestinian-staffed NGO about how IDF soldiers are humiliating Palestinians. It’s the fact that the IDF have been instructed not to eat, drink, or smoke in public while working in Palestinian areas on Ramadan. Once again, brought to you by the Better Than Them report, because many Israeli Arabs have no such compunctions respecting Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur.
David Miliband finds terrorism that he disapproves of: Looks like the Foreign Minister of Britain only condemns terrorism that doesn’t take place on his home turf. I’m shocked, shocked, to discover that he’s appalled by the hero’s welcome the Lockerbie bomber received in Libya. Those terrorists are simply going to have to learn to distinguish the good terrorism from the bad! (Footnote: What the hell did they expect? When has an Arab nation ever showed dismay at one of its own murdering hundreds of infidels?)
Top gun, but without the bad eighties hair and music: The IAF staged a competition over the Negev recently. And while one squadron won the competition, the real winner, of course, is Israel, especially in light of reports that Russia could sell fighter jets to Iran. Hey, I’m all for that. Better jets than missiles, because the IAF will do to the Iranian air force what it did to Syria—shooting down 80 Syrian fighters without a single loss of their own.
Must-read: The UNHRC Goldstone Commission will be presenting its biased report to the UN soon. Irwin Cotler has a must-read, in-depth series of articles at the JPost about how the report was rigged from the get-go. Part one. Part two. How biased was the assignment? So biased that even Mary Robinson said it was anti-Israel. Read in full recommendation.
Brilliant new Obama peace plan: Playground politics. Remember when you were kids, and you dared each other to do something? “You go first.” “No, you.” “I know! Let’s do it together!” That is the essence of Obama’s new peace plan. That’s right. Let’s make simultaneous actions. That will solve everything. So, will it work? Of course not. Not while the Palestinians keep getting support for their insistence that it is Israeli settlements that are preventing peace—not Palestinian intransigence and the unwillingness to recognize the rights to Jews to have a state in their ancestral homeland.
Hey, Meryl, nobody’s perfect. Some IDF soldiers eat or drink in front of Muslims during a Muslim fasting holiday. And some Palestinians blow up a seder and murder nearly thirty Jews during Passover. I feel sure that our president would tell us that each side needs to work on respecting the other side’s sensibilities.
Besides, I bet the Israelis are just doing this because if their soldiers are caught scarfing a felafel in front of a mosque it’ll spark a UN Security Council meeting.
One Israeli plane was shot down by a SAM during the Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot.
“So biased that even Mary Robinson said it was anti-Israel.” I am not sure what this means. I would have to see her actual comments, as she may just be reinforcing her own preconceived feelings that “it was anti-Israel†and not necessarily untrue. What really bothers me is our “dear leader†honoring this woman with a medal!
From the tribute to Capt. Gad Marasha:
He served as commander of the trackers unit in the IDF Southern Command – the only Jewish member of a unit composed of Bedouin.
Lt.-Col. Nimer related: “Gadi always gave his soldiers the feeling that he was part of them. During the month-long Ramadan fast, he did not eat or drink in their presence. The Bedouin soldiers respected him for this. He fostered relations of trust and appreciation.”