Monday snarks

Of course he is: President Obama is reportedly on board with the latest insistence that Israel makes unilateral “goodwill gestures” while the Palestinians do nothing—which pretty much summarizes the entire peace process over the last few decades. The goodwill gestures, of course, include releasing convicted murderers. Because they’re part of the PA, you see.

When is a precondition not a precondition? When the Palestinians say it isn’t. Abbas says he’s not insisting on preconditions, but he won’t talk peace until there’s a complete freeze on “settlements.” Uh-huh. Say, if I say a piece of green paper is a twenty dollar bill, think I can convince a cashier to take it?

I hate British Nazis: Apparently, the theft of the Auschwitz sign was done at the behest of a British neo-Nazi. The proceeds of the sale were to go to neo-Nazi hate attacks in Sweden. Boy, was I wrong in thinking it was just really stupid thieves. It was really stupid British Jew-haters.

Occupation isn’t occupation when Arabs are doing the occupying: The Dead Sea Scrolls, clearly artifacts of Israel’s Jewish heritage, were recovered from Jordan’s grasp in the Six-Day War. They are currently on display in Canada. Jordan wants Canada to seize them under the Hague Convention, insisting that Israel should hand back the “cultural artifacts” because it is occupying east Jerusalem, and an occupier is not allowed to steal the cultural artifacts of the occupied. This begs the question: When Jordan was occupying the West Bank and took the rest of the scrolls, was it not doing exactly what it now accuses Israel of doing? Of course it was. This is yet another example of the famed projection of Arab nations on Israeli behavior. Read the article in full to see the utter hypocrisy of the PA and Jordan regarding these scrolls of the Torah, a book which the Arabs utterly disdain.

Ew! Jew cooties! An Iranian soccer official resigned because someone in his office sent new year’s greetings to Israel. But it’s not anti-Semitism, it’s anti-Zionism.