Would Iran receive more international condemnation for detonating an atomic bomb in Tel Aviv or for using the same bomb to conduct an above-ground nuclear test?

Haveil Havalim is back from its Pesach vacation at Perspectives of a Nomad.

Lynn B. has a post that compares the Walt-Mearsheimer paper with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You will be shocked at how closely W-M follows the old anti-Semitic forgery. Well, no, not if you’re a regular reader here.

Meantime, Adloyada writes how the BBC utterly ignores the anti-Semitic, genocidal statements made by the Hamas/PA new “security chief.” The AP, Reuters, and American media didn’t pick it up, either.

Carnival of the Cats is at animal family this week.

for two weeks. Tom’s going on vacation.

The podcast is up. My contribution: I edited my post on the mechanics of a suicide bomb, and added a poem that Tom sent to me. It’s a very stirring poem, and I think I did a fair job reading it.

The feature interview is with Norm Geras. And Rightwing Duck from IMAO is now sharing the writing job with Tom Paine, and although I can’t tell which are his and which are Tom’s, I’ve been laughing at the jokes. Of course, I also laughed when it was just Tom, but I find myself laughing more now.

Damian Penny has joined the podcast as a regular as well. Wow, you have got to listen to his rant on why Israel should be treated with a double standard. And of course, Lair Simon has the Full of Crap Report. (If you missed last week’s, I strongly urge you to listen to it, if only to hear Lair’s Easter schtick. It’s hilarious.) This week, Lair covers hypocritical Texas politicians.

So go listen. There isn’t going to be a new one for a couple of weeks. Maybe longer, if a boat anchor rips up Tom’s vacation spot’s phone cable again.

David Hirsch is a real mensch. I admire his steadfastness and power of persevering in the face of implacable idiocy. Which (the idiocy) is prevailing in the murky waters of that new Guardian show named “Comment is free”.

David published an excellent article Creeping prejudice and, as usual, got quite a lot of comments. I am not going to bore my faithful readers here with a potpourri. Just a choice sample from a lengthy comment by a person who calls himself Mike Corbeil and is (according to him, of course) a Canuck. Enjoy.

As for what Hitler led in terms of Nazism, people should not forget that he was born and raised a Jew, his mother, as far as I’m aware, always remained Jewish, and I never heard or read anything about Adolf Hitler having been against his mother’s choice. I still need to find out precisely when he so-called converted to Christianity, and what the specific context was, including from some years prior, for it’s possible that this was not a true conversion at all, in any sense whatsoever true, except that he was “blessed” with the label of being Christian, but which is a totally empty label, unless a Christian is true to this faith.

Peculiarly, and to the best of my recollection, both US V.P. Cheney and Sec. of Defence Rumsfeld were both Jews back in 2000 and, recently, I came across news that they’re now and both Christians. Why? How? Who made this possible? Or, is it really true, or not? Assuming it’s true, then why and how, and who performed this “blessing” of pure falseness?

There is more text in that post where the above comes from, so anyone could take a look and enjoy a hell of a lot more, but it’s enough to make a point. At least I believe so.

As a special note to Mike Corbeil from the Elders: Mike, dear, that conversion to Christianity is a very simple trick for the last 100 or so years. Our advances (secret up till now) in surgery are a long story, but suffice to say that we have learned to grow back that small piece of skin that is being cut off from the you know what of you know who. It is amazing really - no signs of the person being ever a Jew! Now you are a Jew - now you ain’t. Go figure…

In your place, Mike (and to tell you the truth, I wouldn’t want to be in it), I would hold that “you know what” in your hand at all times. To prevent somebody coming at you with a scalpel. You may become a Jew quicker than it takes to say “Canadian Club”. Take care.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Ynet article says so. Attorney Michael Sfarad says so. Six Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups say so. So it must be true, isn’t it?

You know what: if a French artillery unit was lobbing shells at, say, an Italian village over the border with France just for fun, I would agree wholeheartedly.

I would say even more: if a bloodthirsty Israeli general suddenly decided to rocket Amman (that’s in Jordan, for those who forgot), I would agree that this general must either go on trial or have his brain examined.

As for the case of our Gazan cousins: you see, there is one crucial detail the article doesn’t mention. It is that since disengagement, which I have always supported, the cousins launched a bit less than 600 Qassam rockets at us.

In my book it is a war, with all the consequences of one. Especially when the rockets are launched from the populated areas, which is of course done on purpose - just put IDF in a “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” situation.

Nah. I am afraid this petition is a no brainer. Too bad.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews