You give up the money, idiot: It’s not heroic to fight off armed robbers, it’s stupid. Especially when you’re only carrying $5. It’s stupid. And now a rabbinic student is hospitalized for his stupidity. There’s a Talmudic lesson in here somewhere.
That’s why we call him “Mad” Mahmoud: Neener neener neener, Israel is a cow-ard… that’s what Mad Mahmoud is telling Al Jazeera, anyway. Sure. Because Israel is the nation that hides behind two proxy armies, and Israel is the one that’s helping Al Qaeda murder Americans in two other countries. But hey, Israel is too weak to attack Iran. You know what? I hope he never finds out the truth, because that would mean the Iranians took care of their mad mullahs and didn’t leave it to the rest of the world to take out their garbage.
The precondition is now a postcondition: The Palestinians will be pulling out of the peace talks at the first opportunity. Hell, they’re telegraphing it: Saab Erekat says the Israelis can have “settlements or peace,” which of course is a false choice. But that is what the media line will be. Just wait for it. In fact, Erekat has already informed Barack Obama that if Israel doesn’t extend the settlement building freeze, the Palestinians will walk out of the talks. All of this, of course, will be spun as Israeli intransigence, when it will be the Palestinians who walk away from the peace talks. Because, as the conventional wisdom goes, settlements are an “obstacle to peace.” (770 hits on Google News alone with that search phrase.) What biased media?