Thursday morning un-brief briefs

Living in peace, if peace means “trying to kill people by throwing cement blocks at their cars:” Yep, those peaceful Palestinians, who are only waiting for the stubborn Israelis to stop causing them to do things like throw cement blocks at passing cars and fracture the drivers’ skulls, are not obstacles to peace. The drivers are.

The anti-Semitic Time’s Man of the Year: Can’t really tell who to give the top Jew-hating title to, Time or Recip Tayyip Erdogan. Reading this utterly anti-Israel p.o.s. piece on voting for the Islamist who is moving Turkey towards becoming a fascist, Islamist state is rather nauseating. “Man of the Year” used to mean the person who most influenced world events. That’s why people like Hitler got it. Erdogan has influenced some Middle East events, but nowhere else, really. As for the utterly biased account of an Israeli “raid” killing Turkish “activists” delivering “aid”—well, this is the [so-called] newsmagazine that helpfully put “rhymes with Fagin” as a how-to-pronounce guide of Menachem Begin’s last name. And may I say: Eff you, Time, and all your Jew-hating writers and editors.

Buh-bye, Jihadis: IDF got another couple of terrorists in Gaza. I’d say “Tuna for terrorists,” but the kitties get canned food every day now, so no tuna for them. Bonus points: These are the jerks that kidnapped the BBC reporter (who still hates Israel, though). Al Qaeda is now threatening Jews in Hebrew over these killings. Because it makes a difference if they use our language or theirs. Duh.

What’s missing from this AP piece on the freeze? The fact that the Palestinians have said they will not resume talks without a full settlement freeze. Funny, the Israeli press can find quotes to that effect, but not the AP. And then there’s the “they want a freeze but that’s not a condition” bullshit. Um—they want a freeze, but it’s not a condition? In what universe?

Palestinians want construction to halt in both war-won areas, which they claim for their future state along with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

But they have not set that as a condition for resuming U.S.-brokered peace talks, which broke down in late September, just three weeks after they began at the White House, following the expiry of a 10-month moratorium on new West Bank construction.

Sure looks like a condition to me.

Big, scary Israel is scaring scared villagers: The AP just can’t go a day without slamming Israel for everthing. The village of Ghajar was captured from Syria during the Six-Day War. When Israel left Lebanon in 2000, the UN split the village in half. Israel occupied it again during the war with Hezbollah, and reunited the village that the UN had stupidly split in half. Now, the villagers say they don’t give a crap who rules them, they want their village whole in one piece. So, of course, it’s Israel’s fault that the village is now split. Not the UN surveyors. It’s the headline that irks me the most: Israel pullout stirs fear in Lebanon border hamlet. Big, scary Israelis—even when they leave, they’re scaring the poor, innocent fill-in-the-blanks.

Lawfare works both ways: Awesome! An Israeli student fought a Spanish websites anti-Israel policies and won. Looks like the threat of being sued ranks higher than a stupid boycott, eh? (Also doesn’t help that the Euros have those thought-crime laws, and it’s far easier to win lawsuits there than it would be here in the U.S. But hey—we’ll take the win.)