Tuesday news roundup

Israeli Double Standard Time: Say, you know who’s banning books because they conflict with their view of their religion? Hamas. You know who’s not calling Hamas a fascist state? Time magazine. What time is it? That’s right.

But it’s not Israel-bashing, so who cares? The State Dept. has called the Turkel Commission’s report, which says the IDF used justifiable force in the Mavi Marmara incident, “credible, impartial, and transparent.” Funny, I can’t seem to find the thousands of AP wire stories racing around the world to declare this news. Of course, this being the State Dept., they push the UN panel as the “primary forum” to determine whether or not the IDF’s response to being attacked, beaten, stabbed, and thrown over the deck was justified. Because, of course, we need to know if force was justified after this:

“They dragged me down a ladder, two men, one above and one below – while they were dragging me by my pants they started coming off and my shirt hiked up,” he said. “I saw that there was massive bleeding and I could see my intestines spilling out of my stomach.”

Oh, sure. It was all the IDF’s fault.

Hezbollah wins, peace loses: If Congress doesn’t stop all funds to Lebanon, the U.S. will be complicit in arming a terrorist army. Hezbollah has won the fight to form the government of Lebanon. The next war is going to be brutal, bloody, and all-encompassing, not just hitting the Shi’ite areas of Beirut. Because Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy, will be running Lebanon completely. I wonder if Time magazine will run a cover story titled “Do Lebanese Really Care About Peace?” (No, of course I don’t really wonder that. It doesn’t fit the narrative.)

Palileaks, the True Paliwood Story: Barry Rubin has a primer on how the lies can be used to show the truth of the peace talks. He knows this stuff waaaaay more than I do, so go read his analysis.