Awesome! Lebanon screws itself by mapping its borders: The Lebanese are trying to steal the gas fields that Israel discovered, so they’re defining the maritime borders between Israel and Lebanon—and giving Israel more territory than previous claimed. Those wily Zionists! Stealing territory by making the Lebanese give it to them!
Abbas resignation alert: Mahmoud Abbas hasn’t threatened to quit in quite some time, but he’s doing it now. He says if the peace talks fail, he’ll quit. Shyeah. Sure. Uh-huh. And if he quits, I’ll convert to Buddhism.
A stone’s throw away: Mad Mahmoud now supposedly won’t be throwing any rocks at Israel. Too bad. I say Israel could consider it a terrorist attack and take him out as a result. I wonder if he realizes how vulnerable he will be at the border, particularly if he takes along Chipmunk Cheeks Nasrallah. Talk about your target-rich environments. Alas, Israel wouldn’t send out a Hellfire missile. It would set a precedent that terrorist groups would be all too willing to follow.
Of course they’re “open” to it: It’s another way to stall: The Palestinians now say they’re “open” to extending the settlement freeze two more months. Of course they want the freeze. They got a ten-month freeze and had only to have indirect talks, then one direct one, in ten months. At that meeting, nothing happened. In ten months, nothing happened. Prediction: They’ll have no more than one if the freeze is extended (and I doubt it will be). And nothing will happen. The settlement freeze: It’s like the Seinfeld of international relations.