Carnival of the Cats is at Animal Family. Cats! Yay!

Haveil Havalim, Carnival of the Jews, is at Daled Amos. Jews! Yay!

You know, if you say “Cats and Jews” fast enough, especially if you mush the “and,” it’s going to sound like a sneeze. Which I just did. Sneezed, that is. Damned dust.

Saw this article in the news:

Thirteen years after Bosnia filed the case with the International Court of Justice, its lawyers will lay out their lawsuit against Serbia and Montenegro - the successor state for the defunct Yugoslavia - charging it with a premeditated attempt to destroy Bosnia’s Muslim population, in whole or part.

“Not since the end of the Second World War and the revelations of the horrors of Nazi Germany’s ‘Final Solution’ has Europe witnessed the utter destruction of a people, for no other reason than they belong to a particular national ethnical, racial, and religious group as such,” said the lawsuit’s opening paragraph, drafted for the Bosnian government by American lawyer Francis A. Boyle.

… and my first thought was, “Gee, have we forgotten about Darfur already?”

Gary Farber has the issue covered thoroughly. Scroll down and you’ll see dozens of links.

I guess neither Rwanda nor Darfur comes under the heading of genocide. What about the Cambodian genocide? No? Why is that? Because the victims weren’t Muslims?

What a load of crap.

Actually, there aren’t going to be strangers in town, but I’ve asked for guest bloggers to pick up a little of the workaday slack while I, well, work. My new job doesn’t include blogging time.

So I have a couple of volunteers, and they should be along any time now. They’re both regular and/or longtime readers here. I think you’ll like what they have to say.

People have picked up on this story as an example of irony. (Hat tip: Earl H.)

Elsewhere in Gaza, a top Hamas bombmaker died when a device blew up as he was training militants to prepare explosives.

But I think there’s a different angle. Reuters isn’t even bothering to bury the next graf deep inside the article; it’s actually the fourth paragraph and will make many newspapers’ “International News” sections.

“Hamas is continuing to train the mujahideen in order to pursue their task of jihad,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.

Hamas openly states its purpose to destroy the Jewish state, and the world still insists on giving them a chance to “moderate.”

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