Erev Yom Kippur briefs

No good deed goes unpunished: So when the rebels take over Syria, you think they’re going to remember that China and Russia voted against them in the UN Security Council sanctions issue? Oh, sure, they’re griping now. But the jury’s out.

Another day, another AP whitewash of Hamas The UN suspended a teacher for being a member of Hamas. The AP article does its best to prove that Hamas has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the UN schools in Gaza. Hey, those stories you’ve read of Hamas utterly infesting UN groups in Gaza? Pshaw. Just read this:

The Islamic militants, hampered by an Israeli border blockade and shunned by much of the world, often struggle to provide services to the territory’s 1.5 million people and rely on the U.N. agency to fill some of that void. The agency runs schools, clinics and food centers that serve hundreds of thousands of Gazans.

However, some in Hamas view UNRWA as an ideological rival, accusing the agency of promoting a Western way of thinking in its schools and summer camps.

Although Hamas did not organize the one-day teachers’ protest, it made clear that the ruling militant group supported the effort.

The AP: Hamas’ press agents to the world.

The CSM: Toeing the Palestinian line, all the way back to 1947. Get a load of this statement in a story about the falling popularity of Hamas since it won’t support the UN statehood bid:

The statehood bid, if successful, would give Palestinians full membership in the UN – and, Palestinian Authority President Abbas has argued, greater leverage against Israel. But it would also require his people to renounce their claims to land conquered by Israel in its war of independence with Arab neighbors.

That’s right. The Christian Science Monitor is backing Arab claims against Israel’s existence. Nice. The CSM wants Israel to go back to the UN Partition plan? Yeah, that’s gonna happen.

Is that the smell of high-pocrisy coming from Wall Street? The 99%-ers hate corporations and CEOs. Except for Steve Jobs. He’s cool. The fact that he cancelled Apple’s philanthropy program? Doesn’t matter, man, my iPhone and iPad are COOL!