Finally Friday briefs

The awesome awesomeness of the ability of Israel to cause everything: You know, we Jews are so wily, so powerful, so all-encompassing, that we can cause neighboring state governments to fall. An Iranian minister said so. (With help from the Big Satan, of course.) [Using best cartoon bad guy voice] Behold our power!

The UN is running out of money: Not in the way you think. American banks have declined to carry many UN diplomats’ accounts any more due to the high cost of making sure that foreign diplomats aren’t laundering money for terrorist operations (gee, who would ever suspect them of doing that?). Pardon me while I try to wipe the smile off my face at the sheer schadenfreude of UN staffers running out of money. Nope. I just can’t seem to do it. Grinning like a Cheshire Cat. Yep.

Whoops, they did it again: The AP managed to bury the lede in the 14th paragraph of a 17-paragraph story. Here’s the angle: Hamas is “deploying forces” to stop PIJ from launching rockets and mortars at Israel. The AP goes through hoops to show us how serious Hamas is about trying to stop the rocket fire. And then, in graf 14, we get this information:

Before nightfall, however, an Associated Press photographer said no Hamas forces were to be seen in the area.

In other words, the effort was a show. The AP dutifully reported it as a serious effort to stop the rocket fire (also managing to slam Israel liberally, of course). And then, near the end of the article, the AP reports that all of the Hamas forces that were “deployed” to stop the rocket fire had returned home before nightfall. In other words, they went out for a photo op. Then they went home. And the AP feels it is only necessary to point this out at the very end of the article. (To its credit, the NY Times’ condensation of the story includes that information.)

Yet another example of the willing duplicity of the anti-Israel media.