An op-ed about the anti-Semitism of anti-Zionists in the Globe and Mail:

Anti-Zionists promote their cause by propagating phony charges against Israel to discredit and delegitimize the Jewish state. Wishful thinkers ignore the anti-Semitism at the core of anti-Zionist criticism and fantasize that, if only Israel avoided this or that behaviour that anti-Zionists decry, the two-state solution would be at hand.

This fantasy world has many imaginary constructions. One of these is that Palestinians who support anti-Zionists do not want to destroy Israel. Mary Corkery of KAIROS and Etienne De Jonghe of Pax Christi International asserted this remarkable proposition in a letter to the editor published in The Globe and Mail on Dec. 22. They wrote that Palestinians who voted for the anti-Zionist terrorist organization Hamas in last January’s Palestinian election “did not vote to destroy Israel, nor do they want this.” The authors do not explain how they know that Palestinians wanted something different from the platform of the party for which they voted.

Read it all.

Yep, they’re still killing each other (and may they continue to do so until they both lose, please).

And here are the most interesting (not to say jaw-dropping, hypocritical, or hilarious) quotes from the terrorists themselves.

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader, called for calm in the wake of the renewed internal violence. Five people were killed on Wednesday in fighting.

“These clashes must stop, this bloodshed must end. Let all of you love one another, let’s resolve differences through dialogue and not with weapons,” Haniyeh told reporters after returning from making the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

“Weapons must only be directed against the Israeli occupation.”

This one is equally as good:

Fatah’s Gaza Strip Spokesman Maher Makdad expressed his amazement at Hamas’ behavior, and said, “It is interesting how the Hamas members managed to preserve the life of Gilad Shalit for six months, but didn’t managing to maintain the security of the officers they kidnapped and executed Wednesday.”

But this is my favorite quote:

Jamal Tirawi, a Fatah lawmaker, warned that Hamas leaders in the West Bank could be targeted again.

“If Hamas keeps doing what it is doing with its militia in Gaza, and is killing our members, all Hamas leaders in the West Bank are in our hands,” said Tirawi, a former member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent Fatah offshoot.

Hamas warned in a statement on its web site that “those in Fatah who are plotting a coup are trying to escalate tension in the Palestinian street” and warned of any attempt to harm Hamas government officials.

Please, don’t tease us! Go on, follow through with your threats for once. Honest. We won’t mind.

I hate this warm winter. Since moving to Virginia, I have developed pollen allergies, and have been unable to go off Zyrtec for more than a year. We had no winter last year, and we have yet to have a full week’s freeze. Oh, we’ve had one or two cold days and nights, but mostly, I’m still wearing my spring jackets—or none at all—when I go out.

Except when I read things like this, it makes me glad that I have to take a stupid pill every day:

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil fell to a six-week low in New York and a one-year low in London as mild U.S. weather curbed heating-fuel consumption.

Home heating demand in the Northeast, where four-fifths of U.S. heating oil is used, will be 40 percent below normal through Jan. 11, forecaster Weather Derivatives said today. Prices also fell on signs an Energy Department report today will show that U.S. fuel supplies gained last week. Prices are down 6.9 percent in New York, the biggest two-day drop since Dec. 1 and 2, 2004.

[...] Crude oil for February delivery fell $1.44, or 2.5 percent, to $56.88 a barrel at 10:11 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures touched $56.77, the lowest since Nov. 17. Prices are down 10 percent from a year ago. Yesterday, oil prices plunged the most in 20 months.

Above-normal temperatures will cover the eastern U.S. from Jan. 9 through Jan. 13, the National Weather Service said yesterday.

Okay. For this, I can take my allergy pills. I have a high copay, but still, my paying an extra $20-30 a month compared with OPEC not getting extra billions? I’ll take it.

From Haaretz report:

Six Hezbollah detainees being held by Israel since the second Lebanon war will petition the High Court of Justice on Wednesday, asking that they be recognized as prisoners of war.

Attorneys for the six, Semadar Ben-Nati and Itai Hermalin, who were appointed by the Public Defender’s Office, are also to ask the court to allow their clients to be visited by the International Red Cross. Israel has blocked such visits after Red Cross representatives saw the men only twice.

I am totally for strict adherence to Geneva convention and for pampering and cuddling our would be killers. However, in this case it is a bit too much. And allowing the Red Cross to see the men twice is two times too many.

Israel’s attitude in this case contradicts its policy, which allows the Red Cross to visit foreign nationals imprisoned in Israel, including terrorists, whom Israel does not recognize as prisoners of war. The stance in this case is a response to Hezbollah’s refusal to allow Red Cross representatives to meet with the two Israel Defense Forces soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

Sorry for being so unfeeling, cruel and inhuman. But there is Ron Arad and many others to think about. They too happen to be human, they too are sons, husbands, fathers…

So Geneva convention be damned.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

And Reuters happily publishes every word.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a new verbal attack against Israel on Wednesday, saying he believed it would soon collapse, state media reported.

Ahmadinejad, who has sparked international outcry by referring to the killing of six million Jews in World War Two as a “myth” and calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” made the comments in a speech in the southern province of Khuzestan.

See the subtle bias in there? They use the modifier “verbal” in front of “attack,” thus making it less of an attack. After all, sticks and stones, hey? And now let’s count the paragraphs, and remember, that only the first two or three ever make it into the average daily’s “international” section.

“I’m sure that soon we will observe the collapse of the Zionist regime (Israel),” the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying, without elaborating.

That’s three. That’s where it ends. But just for good measure:

“The Holocaust was fabricated by the West in order to reach its goals,” state television quoted him as saying.

Last month, he told delegates at an international conference in Tehran questioning the Holocaust that Israel’s days were numbered: “Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.”

Note again that they legitimize the Holocaust denial conference, and do not point out that it was, effectively, a Holocaust-denial conference. But this is al-Reuters, after all. Can’t expect them to not have an anti-Israel slant.

Or care about the truth.