Ew, Jew cooties: The Turkish PM not only refuses to talk to Netanyahu, but he’s not going to attend a climate change conference if Bibi shows up. He says that Israel is close to losing Turkey as a friend. Hey. Moron. Friends don’t send armed thugs to attack Israeli forces. We’ve got your number, Islamist jerk.
Twice zero is still zero: Hamas says they’re ready to resume talks on Gilad Shalit, but of course, with an ultimatum—they have to start where they broke off. If I recall correctly, they broke off because Israel said NFW are they releasing terrorist masterminds back into anywhere but Gaza, and Hamas insisted they be released into the wild. Yeah, sure, I’m totally expecting these talks to accomplish as much as the current talks with the Palestinians. And remember, twice nothing is still nothing.
Israel’s partners in peace: Boycott Israel. The Palestinians want the OECD to boycott Israel’s debut meeting. Because they totally want peace with Israel. The movement to delegitimize Israel in all world forums continues apace. The good news is, it’s not yet working. Keyword being “yet”.
Don’t let those facts get in the way of my opinion, please: Somehow, I don’t think this news will spread nearly as wide as the original: Netanyahu has ordered a change to the loyalty oath so that all new immigrants, not just non-Jews, will have to swear allegiance to the “Jewish and democratic state” of Israel. The fact that Israel has listened to objections and agreed to change what bothers people will not matter one whit in the discussion of this subject. Refer back to this post to see why.
Brush up on your Aramaic and Greek: Coming to an internet near you: The Dead Sea Scrolls. Of course, this great news could not be delivered by the AP without pointing out that “experts have complained only a small number of scholars were allowed access to the scrolls.” I’m surprised they didn’t also carry that idiotic Palestinian claim that the scrolls are theirs because they were found in the West Bank.
I wish to demonstrate my strange, almost mystical predictive powers:
If Shalit is still alive and is released, he will be released in return for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, most of whom are happily self-confessed murderers and many of the remainder would have been murderers if they could have been. The ratio will be one Israeli for hundreds of Palestinians and the only question will be how many hundreds to one?
And I predict that no one, absolutely no one, will suggest that one Israeli for hundreds of Palestinians is “disproportionate.”
“Turkish Jew cooties” .. that is too much! An old story is instructive: “When Philip II of Spain was accentuating his persecution of Jews, he decided that every Spaniard with Jewish blood must wear a hat of a certain shape. Foreseeing trouble, the King’s Fool appeared the same evening with three such hats. ‘For whom are these, fool?’ asked Philip. ‘One for me, nuncle, one for thee, and one for the Grand Inquisitor.'”