The Dubai Assassination Squad Facebook group lives! The Dubai police chief must have gotten bored with being a nobody again. He’s says he’s identified five more suspects, and of course, the uncritical press is lapping it up. And yet, with all that video footage, there’s none of the suspects at the door of the ex-terrorist’s hotel room. Or any video footage of him, who he was meeting, and why he was there.
Well, at least it wasn’t the Israel-hater: The U.K.’s election appears to be a rerun of Bush v. Gore. Pass the popcorn.
And it’ll work, too! Seriously? The Iranians are hosting a dinner for members of the UN Security Council, hoping it will blunt sanctions? Geez. They didn’t need to expend the effort. There aren’t going to be any “crippling” sanctions. There may be some that “bite.” But I’m betting the bite is on the level of the sand shark. (They have no teeth.)
Can you say “Waste of time”? I knew you could. What, exactly, does slamming Goldstone’s past accomplish? The report is out, it is being used as a weapon to bash Israel, the damage is done, and the man has gotten what he wanted. How on earth does this “investigative” report do anything more than make Yedioth Ahronoth look like a publication out to smear Goldstone however possible? I thought you were better than that.
Admittedly I thought the revelation about Goldstone was pretty damning. But when I forwarded it to a South African blogger he said it will never work because Mandela already certified Goldstone as Kosher. (or words to that effect.) Good call.
(BTW, Goldstone has disputed the number, he said it was only two and it was for committing murder in the course of a robbery.)
I’m sure that Galloway will continue to turn up like a bad penny until he’s mercifully rubbed out of The Book Of Life like the blot on humanity he is.
-ls/cm
OT:-sort of.
Hey Meryl: I quoted your ‘Antisemites of the world just die already’ line-with attribution of course-on a FB friend’s post.
He got a friend-request from a Neo-Nazi and it just seemed so appropriate.
re: british election.
the bush/gore analogy doesn’t work in a parliamentary system.
cameron won the most seats in parliament but fell just short of a majority. As minority prime ministers go Cameron’s position is quite strong. He needs only a few votes from just one of opposition parties to pass a bill. That he do on a case by case basis(it doesn’t need to be the same MPs each time)
The Labour party will now descend into a internal blood letting that might last quite some time. The Liberal Democrats, with their disappointing results might be in a similar position.
Neither party will be chomping at the bit to go back to the polls in the near to mid future.
Cameron’s position is much more similar to that of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Since 2006 Mr Harper and his Tory party are also just short of a majority in Parliament but due to the weakness of the Opposition he has been able to govern for the most part as if he had a majority.
You thought Yediot was better than that? The English version must be way better that the printed tabloid rag I read here in Israel. Mind you, the competition is even worse…
Maariv – Like Yediot, but without even the pretense of dignity and professionalism.
Haaretz – Snobby traitors (and I mean that literally, see Uri Blau and Anat Kam) who think being a journalist means “everyone who disagrees with my opinions is a fascist.”
Israel Today – BS propaganda mouthpiece for the highest bidder.
I think the only one to resemble an actual newspaper worthy of reading is the JPost. And it’s biased, so…
Twerp: Awesome. I haven’t been bothered by them yet on Facebook. Hope it stays that way.
Lair, that’s great news. I must post about that.