Saudi Arabia joined the World Trade Organizaion 6 months ago. Part of the agreement to join was that they would drop all boycotts and treat all fellow members of the WTO equally. This meant dropping the boycott against Israel and working to end the Arab League boycott of Israel.

They promised President Bush that they would do all of this, which was a blatant and obvious lie:

The U.S. Congress passed on Wednesday a unanimous decision calling on President George W. Bush to urge Saudi Arabia to abide by its commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and stop its support of the Arab boycott against Israel.

The Saudi pledge to end the economic boycott on Israel was America’s condition for permitting the Middle Eastern country into the WTO.

In addition, the Saudis were notified some six months ago of their legal obligation to grant preference to WTO members, including Israel.

Saudi Arabia complied, and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal gave Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice his word that he would act against the Arab boycott. However, the Saudis have not followed through on their commitment and in the meantime have even hosted an annual conference of Muslim organizations responsible for enforcing the boycott.

Kinda makes you wonder what other promises and laws this man has ignored or broken.

Whoever it is, according to this short article, that somebody is trying to confuse the hell out of the jury at Zacarias Moussaoui’s trial.

The mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has been ruled eligible for the death penalty, said yesterday a life sentence would be as bad as execution. Aicha Moussaoui, in an interview on More 4 News last night, said: “Whether he’s condemned to death or condemned to life, it’s the same. In fact it’s worse to be condemned to life than to die.”

I think that the ambiguity created by the above quote must be cleared up in time, before the judge and the jury start to deal with the issue of a suitable punishment.

After all, it may come to a situation when mother’s wishes will become that last feather on the scale of justice. Besides, we have to be sure that baby Zacarias is in synch with his mother on the subject…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Yasser Arafat lied to the UN for forty years. The fools believed him when he said he wanted peace with Israel — in English — and then turned around and told his people in Arabic that the flag of the palestinians would fly over Jerusalem.

Hamas continues in the Arafat mode. And the fools, of course, believe them.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Palestinian foreign minister said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday that the new Hamas-led government believes its struggle against Israel is just, but it wants to live side by side in peace with its neighbors.

The language in Mahmoud Zahar’s letter - his first official correspondence with Annan since Hamas officially took power last week - was reminiscent of that used by President Bush and the Quartet of international parties trying to promote a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia. They have called for two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

[...] Hamas, the surprise winner of January’s Palestinian parliamentary election, has refused to recognize Israel, accept past Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements and renounce violence, as Israel and the Quartet have demanded.

This next paragraph is absolutely stunning in its attempt to spin the issue into something positive for the terrorists who now run the PA:

The letter made no reference to these three key issues, but the reference to a possible two-state solution - even negatively - was seen as a possible opening.

By whom? Who sees this as an opening? Certainly not Israel. Definitely not Hamas, who insisted later they never said anything about two states including Israel (read the charter, fools, it’s quite clear about destroying Israel). The AP writer, and the editor who approved this, are contradicting their own reporting in the previous paragraph. And continue to do so later in the article. It’s as if they have an editor who reads each story to remove any anti-palestinian facts and replace them with a positive spin. Because here’s what else the article says:

As was Zahar’s final sentence: “Like all other people in the world, we look forward to live in peace and security and for our people to live a dignified life in freedom and independence, side by side with our neighbors in this sacred part of the world.”

U.N. diplomats said the statement appeared to be deliberately ambiguous, leaving in question whether Israel was viewed as a neighbor. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the issue publicly.

But Zahar later denied that he in any way recognized Israel’s right to exist or a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a statement from his office. An official in Zahar’s office said there was “not even a hint” of such a statement in the letter.

What the hell is wrong with these people that they simply cannot state the truth, and instead, try to pretend that Hamas didn’t say what they said? The “neighbors” referred to by Hamas are Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. They don’t consider Israel a “neighbor.” They don’t consider the existence of Israel at all. Read. Their. Charter.

The lead of this article should not be about how there may be an “opening” for discussion. The lead should be how Hamas has the nerve to tell the United Nations that it refuses to recognize a member nation. The lead should be how Hamas continues with its irredentist, rejectionist policies toward Israel. NOWHERE IN THE LETTER SHOULD THERE BE A REFERENCE TO THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION, because that is a fiction that the AP editor put into this news article.

And so the legitimization of terror organizations continues, and the Exception Clause is in full swing.

On my own site, I seriously doubted the MSM’s claims that Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar had accepted the two-state solution, thus recognizing Israel.

“Israeli procedures in the occupied territories will put an end to all hopes to reach a final settlement based on the two-state solution,” it said.

No mention of the fact that Hamas doesn’t actually support the so-called two-state solution. Just saying that all hopes for it are ended. France, Bush, the UN, and others may hope for it, but not Hamas. When it comes to “final settlement” that’s a one-state solution of Palestine, although Hamas/Zahar really just want Israel destroyed and the Jews driven out. They don’t quite know what they want after than, even if they dangle the concept of “Palestine” in front of their followers and future suicide bombers and fighters.

And sure enough, I appear to be right in the fact that the MSM is engaging in its usual wishful thinking and concealment of the true Palestinian agenda to murder Jews and destroy Israel:

Palestinian Foreign Minister and senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar on Wednesday denied referring to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, wording that might have hinted at Israel’s right to exist.

A senior Palestinian diplomat at the United Nations said on Tuesday that Zahar had made the reference in a letter he sent to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan this week.

“Such a sentence was not used in the letter,” Zahar told Reuters. A copy of the letter seen by Reuters also showed no mention of a two-state solution.

But does that stop the MSM for deluding itself into seeing a silver lining in this cloud of fire and death?

Nope:

Despite not referring to a two-state solution, Zahar’s letter to Annan was conciliatory for a Hamas leader who has a reputation as a hardliner.

This is a lot like calling the time between a rapist assaulting his victim and then murdering her “concilatory” when all he’s doing is catching his breath.

I repeat the question I asked on my own site once again: Does anyone have the full test of the letter? (And can they please wipe Kofi Annan’s drool and other bodily fluids off of it first?)

Some fun links. First, a very funny story on Sarah’s blog that we call “Bonk!” Of course, Sarah’s oldest dog is getting to the stage where we may utilize the same strategy.

Next, okay, this is a funny video. It’s by The Right Brothers, and it’s called “Bush was right,” and the thing I like about it the best? The lead singer isn’t pretty. Wow. I didn’t know bands could do that these days.

Next, Rahel gets a link for sending me an elephant joke. (Remember, I love elephant jokes. All of them. No matter how dumb.)

Q. What’s gray and mumbles in front of fruit trees in bloom once a year?

A. A Jewish elephant saying birkat ha-ilanot (the blessing over the trees).

Yes, I will link for elephant jokes. I like them that much. And yes, I laughed when I read that one. No, I’m not kidding. I am not exaggerating when I tell you how much I love elephant jokes. But I won’t get elephant joke books, because then I’d start remembering them myself, and where would be the fun in that?

Another Star Wars video. This one has a really dumb ending, but the fight is fun to watch.

If you have any other funny links, feel free to post them in the comments.