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Hmm.  Bluster?  Or is Olmert ready to go to the mattresses this time?: Israel has the stamina for a long fight and is determined to defeat Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a group of new immigrants from France on Tuesday. In a speech at Ben Gurion International Airport, Olmert told the new arrivals that “we are a strong people, and we have the stamina for a long

From CNN International: Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday he had forged a strategic alliance to stand up to U.S. imperialism with fellow maverick Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. “Our countries must keep their hands at the ready on the sword,” Chavez, in ex-Soviet Belarus as part of a world tour, said on a visit to a military academy. “After a day of intensive work, we have created a strategic alliance

“Here’s how I see it: Once you’ve entered Roseanne, Iran is nothing.”

1.  Thanks so much to Dawn Westerberg for the “Twilight Zone Season 5” DVD set.  I’m a big fan of the show, but I almost never catch it when it’s on TV.  Now I can watch it before bed and give myself the kind of dreams I like to imagine Phil Dick must’ve had. 2.  Tom Elia sends word that twice in the last several days Syrian ambassador to the

…So writes Allah, who gets off the best line of the month while responding in exasperation to Jake Tapper’s “Nightline” interview with Kos—who, it seems, may in fact have joined the army back in the late 80s just so he could trot out the chickenhawk argument 15 years later. Which kind of reminds me of that “Seinfeld” episode where Jerry suspects his dentist has converted to Judaism just so he

I don’t know what to make of this, but I was out picking up lunch from a small middle eastern restaurant near the university when three men, their faces partially obscured by green and yellow bandanas, launched an orchestrated strike on me using heavy falafel balls and what I think must have been shanklish. I wasn’t seriously injured—one of the falafel balls grazed my shoulder, while the shanklish overshot me

Courtesy Overtaken by Events, word that the WaPo’s diplomatic correspondent Robin Wright has decided to forego the customary waiting period of at least 6 months and has already begun rewriting history to shape the coming progressivist narrative with respect to Israeli “aggression”.  From the Contra Costa Times, “Militant turns beliefs into career”: Until this eruption of violence along the Lebanese border—the most dramatic cross-border acts of war by Israel since

From progressive lefty site the Booman Tribune: Forgive me for this but Alan Dershowitz’s children should be hit by a 5000 lb. bomb made by an American military-industrial corporation, sold to Israel, and misfired into his home. Then he can talk to me. I will offer my sincere condolences. Then we will get drunk and talk about relative culpability. I’m sorry Alan. You’re scum. Among the people in history that