When I was twelve, you moved into my apartment complex. We kids liked you immediately. You had two kids of your own, and you really seemed to like kids. You took us to do fun stuff, like hang out at Newark Airport and watch the planes from the observation deck. You took us to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the Statue of Liberty. You once took us sledding in the trailer of your 18-wheeler, telling some dozen kids to stay absolutely quiet until the truck stopped so that the cops wouldn’t pull you over and arrest you. It’s one of the coolest memories I have: A bunch of kids and their sleds in the back of your truck, shushing each other as you drove it through the snow to the nearby park so we could take advantage of the great sledding hill. You accepted us all, and we were a group of kids from all ages, four to fifteen.

Except.

Except now, every time I think of you, I think of her, and what you did to her. She was fifteen.

She was fifteen, and you were thirty-six. She was fifteen, and you were in a position of power and authority. She was fifteen, and you abused your power and authority. You had sex with her. She was fifteen. Your oldest child was two years younger than she. You were thirty-six. And you were married.

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Olmert to World: “We won’t deal with a Hamas-controlled PA or Abbas, because he’s a meaningless figurehead.”

Olmert to Peres: “Sure, you can go and talk to Abbas.”

Kadima candidate Shimon Peres met secretly with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan, the prime minister’s office confirmed Monday.

According to Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office, only economic issues were discussed at the meeting, though Channel Two reported that other issues were discussed as well.

Do Kadima’s numbers go up, down, or stay the same?

The group of reprehensible human beings who are unfortunately also Jewish has gone from kissing Arafat’s ass to kissing Iranian ass. Disgusting. Disgusting.

A delegation from the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect is currently visiting Teheran to meet with senior officials and express their support for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his calls to eliminate Israel.

In a statement to Iran’s official IRIB radio, the group called for “the disintegration of the Zionist regime” and defended the Iranian president, saying that it “is a dangerous deviation to pretend that the Iranian president is an anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic personality.”

[...] On Sunday, members of the delegation, headed by Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, met with Iranian Vice-President Ahmad Moussavi, who also chairs the Iranian Committee in Support of the Palestinian Revolution.

At the meeting, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA, Weiss “praised the ‘enlightening’ statements of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about the Holocaust and said the establishment of a Zionist government and occupation of Palestine are contrary to the injunctions of Judaism.”

The doctrine of Neturei Karta says Jews cannot use human force to establish a Jewish state before the coming of the universally accepted messiah.

The group supports close ties with Arabs, particularly Palestinians, and rejects Zionism.

These asshats were at the Stand for Israel gathering in Washington in the spring of 2002, after the bloody, bloody weeks of daily terror attacks. 250,000 people went to Israel to show their support. These despicable human beings stood with the palestinians and protested our support. I walked by their area as a young man was wasting his breath arguing with these schmucks.

I rarely mention them, because their actions are so reprehensible to me. They want to believe that now is the wrong time for Israel, fine. Two Jews, three opinions, and all that. But to actively campaign against the Jewish state? With the enemies of Israel?

They’re going to have a lot to explain after they die, if you ask me.

Americans, Irish or not, are preparing for St. Patricks Day drunk-festivals this upcoming Friday.

It’s amazing what appeal someone else’s holiday when the beer industry gets behind it. Most people couldn’t tell you who St. Patrick was for the life of them, but they sure can drink beer by the keg (usually lite American beer tinted green instead of a certain thick-as-mud Irish beer, too).

Ths has got me to wondering: what Jewish holidays could inspire mass-market, cross-cultural appeal if only a major industry got behind them and pushed them hard?

Iran is using its proxy army to strike at Israel again. The IDF is on high alert on the Lebanese border.

Iran is also moving to strengthen its influence in Syria. So, who is it that has the imperialistic ambitions again?

The Financial Times (subscription only) says that the U.S. Administration is pressuring palestinian “moderates” to stay out of the Hamas cabinet, so that Hamas will bear the entire blame for whatever happens. Yes, but I don’t believe Europe will hold, as Chirac has now jumped on the “don’t punish the palestinian people” bandwagon. Yes, continue your strategy of never having them have consequences for their actions, because it’s working so well to date.

Mortimer Zuckerman says in U.S. News and World Report that the Islamists have decided that Israel is the first step in their religious war of jihad. Yes, but nobody is going to believe that the conflict in Israel is part of the wider conflect, because Zuckerman is Jewish. That grand Zionist conspiracy, don’tchaknow.

Via Glenn Reynolds, an Al Qaeda member warns:

“Let me also inform you that we are talking about two operations, not one. The scale of one of them is larger than the other but both are large and significant. However, we will start with the smaller, and temporarily put the larger on hold to see how serious the Americans are about their lives. Should you value your own life and security, accept Muslims’ demands, but if you shall prefer death (over giving in to Muslims’ demands). Then, we, by the grace of Allah, are the best in bringing it (death) to your door steps.

Sounds to me like they just got last season’s 24 on DVD.

(By the way, they took gratuitous slaps at Jews in the warning. They always do.)

Welcome, Instapundit readers. Look around the place. Especially since Wednesday is International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day (that’s EATAPETA for short). More recent EATAPETA post here.

For anyone out there stupid enough to think that Fatah was ever anything but an unrepentant terrorist organization:

IDF soldiers on Sunday evening arrested two Palestinians west of Nablus for trying to smuggle into Israel an explosive device weighing up to 20 kilograms.

The findings of an initial interrogation of the terror suspects revealed that the device was meant to be used in a terror attack over the Purim holiday.

The device was hidden in a jug carried in a bag. Police sappers defused the device.

Palestinian sources said the attack was coordinated between Fatah’s military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Islamic Jihad.

Why the Israeli newspapers insist on echoing the lie about the “military wing” of a terrorist organization is beyond me. That’s like saying the U.S. Army is the military wing of the United States government. And oh yeah:

The security establishment received 59 warnings of terror attacks, including 14 pinpoint alerts.

Watch your backs.

Every time you think that PETA can’t get any more ridiculous, they do something like this:

FISH have feelings, too, according to the folks at PETA, who are taking aim at writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell. The author, whose best-selling memoir, “I Am Not Myself These Days,” chronicles his double life as an ad exec-cum-drag performer, was put on notice last week by the animal-rights group’s “Fish Empathy Project” for alleged cruelty to goldfish. As his whip-cracking alter-ego, Aquadisiac, Kilmer-Purcell donned a pair of clear plastic breasts filled with live goldfish. Says PETA: “It would be, for you, like living in a covered bathtub that’s constantly moving, tossing you around as you defecate in it. It’s filthy, painful and terrifying for these animals.”

March 15th: International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Because they earned it.