Carnival of the Cats.

Carnival of the Jews.

And while we’re talking about Jews, here’s a must-read post by David Bogner. It has a twist ending. I was outraged by the end of it, too, but not in the way you’d think.

One today, one earlier this weekend.

No big surprise, what with a terrorist organization now openly running the PA, as opposed to the one that was only a terrorist organization when it wasn’t speaking to the non-Arab world.

And the IDF is declaring a new terror wave in effect.

In the afternoon, a 17-year-old Palestinian was caught at the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus in possession of a 2-kilogram pipe bomb. Sappers destroyed the bomb in a controlled explosion and the youth was transferred to the Shin Bet for interrogation. Head of the Ha’amakim Region Asst.-Cmdr. Yaacov Zigdon denied any connection between the two incidents. Shots were also fired late Sunday at an Israel car traveling near Nablus. No one was injured in the attack.

While the Nazareth District slapped a gag order on the investigation, security officials said that Islamic Jihad as well as the Fatah’s Aksa Martyrs Brigades had recently escalated their terror activity and were doing all they could to perpetrate large-scale attacks against Israeli targets.

Meanwhile Sunday, the army raided Palestinian cities throughout the West Bank in search of terror suspects and maintained a complete closure on Nablus, Tulkarm and Jenin imposed over the weekend in response to the suicide attack near Kedumim which killed four Israelis.

Terror groups, a Central Command source said, have increased their efforts to carry out attacks by over 50 percent in the last month alone. On Sunday, the Shin Bet recorded 76 terror threats including 10 concrete alerts. To curb the new wave, the officer said, the army was operating “unrestrained” in Palestinian cities and had stepped up its arrest operations to prevent additional attacks.

“There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a new terror wave,” the officer said. “We have stepped up our arrest raids and have tightened the inspections at the checkpoints to prevent terror infiltrations.”

Meanwhile, Saab Erekat and Mahmoud Abbas keep on yapping about how Israel needs to sit down and discuss “final status” negotiations with the palestinians.

Why?

From Haaretz:

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar was quoted in a weekend interview to a Chinese news agency defending Hamas’ declared goal of eventually destroying Israel.

Zahar, a prominent Hamas leader sworn into the Palestinian Authority cabinet last week, told the Xinhua news agency that he is certain the goal will be realized, because “There is no place for Israel on this land.”

According to the interview, Zahar maintained that Palestinians have no problem with the Jewish religion, only with the Israeli occupation, and said he does not rule out the possibility of Jews, Muslims and Christians living together in one Islamic state.

From Jerusalem Post:

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas said this weekend that he “dreamed of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it,” the China View news service reported.

“I hope that our dream to have our independent state on all historic Palestine (including Israel) will become real one day. I’m certain of this because there is no place for the state of Israel on this land,” said Zahar.

That’s the guy Hamas considers their Foreign Minister, folks. The person tasked with interacting with the rest of the world.

Considering that he said this in a Chinese state-run newspaper (is there any other kind), how long before the Gaza Zoo gets a pair of pandas?