Friday NJ news briefs

Betcha didn’t even know I moved 350 miles. (No, not permanently, just for the weekend.)

Wanted: Non-lethal crowd control methods. Needed: Fast. Israel is in for some tough times ahead. The fact that Palestinians, Syrian, and Lebanese will be invading the border of a sovereign nation (not protesting for freedom in their own unfree one) isn’t going to be what the media leads with when thousands of “unarmed protesters” (note that the media don’t consider molotov cocktails to be weapons) storm the borders at the same time the newest Fool Flotilla heads for Gazan waters. What a fun month this is going to be!

Look, a Gay Pride Parade in the Middle East: In Israel, the only nation in the Middle East that does not sanction the discrimination and murder of gays. Of course, Queers for Palestine doesn’t care about that.

Abbas wants out of the corner he painted himself into: Really? Because I don’t think he has anything to lose. If the U.S. vetoes a Security Council resolution, he gets to paint us as Zionist tools. If the General Assembly passes a non-binding resolution, he gets to crow about how Israel (and the lobby, and the Zionist tools) won’t let “Palestine” be a state. After all of this happens, he then gets to declare that he was forced into peace talks by the refusal of the U.S. to allow him to have a state unilaterally. So where’s the downside for Abbas?

Syrian forces surround empty town: My prediction? They’ll level it anyway. Most of the residents fled to Turkey. By the way, to some of the idiots out there who compare this event—thousands of refugees fleeing from certain death—to the Palestinian border incursions of Israel, they’re not the same thing.

Monster Mohel Mashes Moron: The moron who created the anti-Semitic comic book Foreskin Man has managed to shoot himself in the foot. The woman behind the circumcision ban in Santa Monica has decided to disassociate herself with the movement since it’s been linked to the anti-Semitic stereotypes that Matthew Hess refuses to acknowledge are anti-Semitic stereotypes:

Mr. Hess defended the comic, saying it was intended to be from a baby’s point of view. “It was designed to really evoke a response that talking about studies and statistics never does,” Mr. Hess said. “What would that baby be thinking other than ‘That man coming at me with a knife is a monster’?”

I have two words for Herr Hess: Bull and shit.