The scene: Hamas vs. Fatah in a Googlefight.

The result: Hamas kicks Fatah’s ass.

I dunno. I’m thinking not in real life, but then, I’m quite content to watch both sides lose.

The Senate has voted to approve funding for the building 370 miles of triple-layered fence along the US-Mexico border along with vehicle barriers and other fencing projects.
No word yet if Achmed Queri has offered to provide concrete and building materials.

I’m just waiting for the Aztlan kooks to claim that this is a Nazi Zionist Occupation Fence meant as a land grab from the original Aztec-MecHan residents.

Once again, pass the popcorn. I think things are about to blow.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Palestinians’ defiant Hamas-led government sent a new militant force into the streets of Gaza on Wednesday, disregarding President Mahmoud Abbas’ order banning the creation of the security body and raising the stakes in their deepening power struggle.

Hamas appeared to have been propelled into action by mysterious drive-by shootings that killed two of its militants in the Gaza Strip hours earlier. These and other recent cases of deadly infighting have threatened to plunge the Palestinian territories into bloody chaos.

[...] Abbas vetoed the force, which is to number about 3,000 fighters and be headed by Jamal Abu Samhadana, a key player in ongoing rocket attacks on Israel and a suspect in the deadly 2003 bombing of an American convoy in the Gaza Strip.

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Can we please, please, please be done with annoying articles by Jews calling Israel an “apartheid” state?

Gideon has an excellent name for this article: Flatulence. Go read what he has to say.

Here’s a beauty that will be utterly ignored by the mainstream media: A former PA official admits that Yasser Arafat took the funds that he received from Israel and donor nations, and used them to buy weapons to kill Israelis.

This is the man that Jimmy Carter insists was willing to have peace with Israel.

And oh, yeah — the Iranians were involved, too.

Former PA chairman Yasser Arafat purchased arms worth millions of dollars transferred to the PA by Israel and the international community, an interrogation of a PA security funds manager, Fuad Shubaki, has found.

In his interrogation Shubaki admitted that money received by Israel was used by the PA to fund terrorist cells which operated against Israel. He also admitted that under Arafat’s instructions, the Palestinian Authority was involved in smuggling and producing weapons, and funding terrorist cells which operated against Israel.

According to Shubaki, with the outbreak of the intifada in 2000, he received an order from Arafat to purchase the largest possible quantity of weapons from different sources.

Under Arafat’s orders, all of the heads of the various PA bodies began purchasing weapons, and a special body was set up to coordinate the effort. PA representatives were placed in a number of countries abroad where they operated as branches for the arms purchasing.

Senior PA members would give Shubaki tips for purchasing weapons, and he passed them on for approval from Arafat. Shubaki himself funded the purchasing of weapons, and after receiving approval from Arafat, senior PA members in Gaza purchased large quantities of weapons. During his interrogation, Shubaki said that Jibril Rajoub (head of the PA Preventative Security Force in Gaza) was among the top figures to receive funding to purchase weapons.

Shubaki also said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hizbullah were behind the Karine A weapons ship intercepted by Israel in January 2002. The Iranians and Hizbullah coordinated the arms ship with senior members of the Palestinian Authority, he said.

Iranian envoys, who Shubaki met in 2001, also offered military aid to the PA, including sites to produce weapons, technology to produce arms, and military training.

And yet, the world insists that Arafat wanted peace. The world turns a blind eye to the Iranian proxy war on Israel, ignores Hizbullah’s thousands of rockets pointed at Israel, ignores the fact that Islamic Jihad and Hamas are funded and trained by Iran, and ignores any and all proof of terrorism by palestinians, up to and including a ship with fifty tons of weapons seized before they can reach the PA, paid for by PA money — which is money transferred from Israel, and western donors.

Because the palestinians want peace, you see. And we can see how much they want it, because it’s not like there are constant terror attacks, attempts to smuggle weapons and bombs into Israel, or shooting and knifing and firebombing Israeli citizens. Oh, wait. Yes, all those things happen, many of them on a daily basis.

But the palestinians want peace. Really.

This story won’t even be a blip on the MSM’s radar. But this one will. Because it entails dead palestinians.

President Bush wants nothing to do with Olmert’s “convergence,” sensing — rightly — that the entire world refuses to recognize unilateral Israeli borders.

US President George W. Bush is not expected to express his support of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s convergence plan following his meeting with Olmert in Washington, the prime minister’s aides estimated Tuesday night just before the prime minister’s preparation delegation was about to return from the American capital.

The delegation members met with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and senior White House staff.

During the Bush-Olmert summit, which is expected to last up to two hours, the president is expected to listen to the new prime minister’s stance regarding the convergence. Bush, who is facing difficult problems from within as well as a drop in his popularity in public opinion polls in light of the ongoing war in Iraq, does not plan to delve into Olmert’s plan for unilateral moves to set Israel’s permanent borders.

Israel is aware of the US government’s traditional stance, which supports setting permanent borders in an agreement and not unilaterally. European governments also back this stance.

The fabled letter from Bush to Sharon, which he used to withdraw from Gaza, apparently does not extend to unilateral borders. I can’t say I’m either surprised, or disappointed. Withdrawing now, in this manner, is seen as retreat, and will be treated as such. It is more than rhetoric. I’m starting to read articles about the Israeli morale sinking, including in the IDF.

Do I have a solution? Not really. Keep building the fence, taking out terrorists, and putting the crush on Hamas. Of course, I’m also all for all-out war with the terrorists, but they don’t have a front, hide behind women and children (if not actually disguising themselves as women), and don’t congregate in one place in the open except during funerals, where there are also — surprise! — women and children.

Then again, we have that 3,000-strong “police” force rarin’ to go, so maybe they’ll get cocky and try to do something with it.

So much for the Walt-Mearsheimer school of Iraq analysis: Kurdish Leader Chastised by Arabs for Moderate Statement on Israel.

Leader of the northern Iraqi district of Kurdistan, Massoud Barazani, has been the target of Iraqi criticism following moderate statements he made regarding relations with Israel.

Barazani was quoted by Iranian state radio and the press in the Gulf states as saying that diplomatic “relations with Israel are not a crime,” as they are often referred to in both Iraq and Iran. The report led unnamed Iraqi officials to condemn Barazani, calling his statements “very dangerous” and saying they “ignore the suffering inflicted on the Arabs by the Zionists.”

This is why I don’t really believe Michael Totten’s dispatches from Iraq when people tell him they don’t hate Jews. Because it seems that for every one Totten found that doesn’t, there are a thousand more who do.

And they seem to be the ones running things.