A friend of mine sent me the following, a piece entitled “Overlapping Realities” by the Israeli novelist Amis Oz, founder of the “Peace Now” movement : Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation’s war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decent person ought to support this cause. The second war is waged by fanatical Islam, from Iran

The next time you hear some Saudi talking head condemn “terrorism” in all its forms, remember what it is he is not condemning: Suicide Bombings. A Saudi official said Tuesday he told President Bush and Congress in a letter that Palestinian suicide bombers are not terrorists and are instead sacrificing ‘their souls for freedom.’ The member of the unelected Consultative Council, which acts like a Parliament, also warned that Washington’s

This is creepy (and yet kinda cool at the same time): “A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain,” the AP

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued a travel advisory for Jews thinking about travelling to France or Belgium: FRANCE — In the last 18 months there have been over 400 hate crimes against Jewish targets in France including, in recent days, arson attacks against synagogues, Jewish institutions, beatings of Jewish school children and pedestrians and other acts of threats and intimidation in Paris, Marseilles, Lyon and other communities. As a

For those of you looking to take a break from Mideast news, check out Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey’s “Green with Ideology” — a critically-minded look at (and rebuttal of) the “scientific community’s” attack on Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist. A teaser: The bitter anti-Lomborg campaign reveals the hidden crisis of what we might call ideological environmentalism. Ideological environmentalism goes far beyond sensible efforts to reduce pollution or protect wilderness.