Yep, you’re going to have to go over to Jewcy to get the full Meryl this week.

I find it too exhausting to try to keep to my usual posting schedule here while also posting a minimum of five a day there.

Also, maybe if enough of you link over there, they’ll keep me on for another week.

Oh. It occurs to me you may not know where to find me. I’m right here.

Long-time readers may remember that one of my first, longest, and most widely-read blogwars was with a blogger named Aziz Poonawalla, who is held up as a shining light of the “moderate” Muslim variety. I was actually rather shocked at the vehemence with which Aziz tried so very hard to prove that Israel was developing a “genetic” bomb that would kill Arabs while not harming Jews. The concept itself is wrong in so many ways that he managed to get most of the Jewish political blogosphere posting on the subject. It is also the subject that got Tacitus (long since revealed to be Josh Trevino) the hottest, inspiring him to endow on me my title as the Master of Juvenile Scorn.™

But here’s the pertinent information from this long introduction: Uzi Mahnaimi, the author of the article claiming that Israel was developing that “gene bomb” also happens to be the author who wrote the Sunday Times article that says Israel is practicing for a nuclear attack on Iran. Several other bloggers picked up on it. There’s Joe’s Dartblog and Israel Matzav, both of whom go into great detail, and Allison Kaplan Sommer debunks the author on PJ Media, where she also points out that Mahnaimi has published this story several times before. If he sounds like a broken record, well, hey—nobody ever went broke accusing the Jews of doing, or attempting to do, evil. It seems that Mahnaimi has made a living at it.

On December 17, 2000, Uzi Mahnaimi also announced in the “Sunday Times” that Israel was going to war against Syria. Supposedly, when Barak was Prime Minister, he was under pressure from his “generals” to prepare actively for war against Syria in the event of failure of the negotiations with the Palestinians. The negotiations did not succeed. The war did not take place.

Journalistic speculations are rife. The possibility that an open conflict with Iran will burst out exists indeed and many are those who gamble; the [mode of] operation is known and has been long practised: “if war breaks out, I would have been the first to announce it”.

But there is worse yet. On November 15, 1998, the “Sunday Times” published an article signed by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin according to which Israel supposedly launched a military research program of a new kind: “ethnic targeting”. It would act according to authors of the article, using a derived technique of bacteriological warfare, suppoedly invented thanks to medical research, which makes it possible “to distinguish Arab genes, and to thus create a bacterium or a genetically modified virus. The goal is to use the viruses or the bacteria to modify the DNA of the living cells.” The scientists supposedly were developing micro-organisms which would attack only people carrying the genes in question… According to the journalist, “the Israeli secret program is based at the Biological Research Institute of at Nes Tsiona, a small city in the south east of Tel Aviv”…

In 1998, the Anti-Defamation League severely reproached the “Sunday Times” for publishing the article on “the ethno-bomb”, calling it irresponsible and dangerous.” Its director, Abraham Foxman wrote then: “This sensational story is reminiscent of the golden age of anti-Semitism when the Jews were accused of ritual crimes, that targeted non-Jews, with poison.” At the time, the Israeli government had not seen fit to comment on the article of Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin, published in the “Sunday Times”: “It is the sort of story which does not deserve denial”…

The article on the “ethno-bomb” written by Mahnaimi and Colvin was included in a number of organs of the Arab press, including the Egyptian daily newspaper “Al Ahram”, in its edition of November 18, 1998.

The article is now carried by the Holocaust-Denial site “The Institute for Historical Review” (no link forthcoming; I’m tired of the David Duke defenders in my comments).

I think the Sunday Times’ quality has sunk an order of magnitude in my mind. Perhaps two.

Apparently, I’m Colin Powell.

I got a 21.

I’ve been saying for years I’m a centrist. Ha!

Just about every silly thing you can thnk of is in this video, a preview of next week’s Scrubs musical episode. The song’s called “Everything Comes Down to Poo.”

Y’know, I hear echoes of Sondheim in the musical style. No, seriously.

I’ll be expending my energies over at Jewcy for a few hours, then back here. It’s a week-long gig, and since they’re actually paying me, I’ll be working a lot of hours on their site.

But it will be the same content I would have posted here, for the most part.

Haaretz happens to tell two seemingly unrelated stories on the same day.

One is the story of Mossad-KGB double agent Zeev Avni who died last week (double dealing is good for one’s health, apparently).

Avni, a Mossad agent, was arrested in April 1956 on suspicion of being a KGB agent. It emerged that while he was cultivating former Nazis employed as military advisers by Egypt’s army for the Mossad, he was also serving as a long-term Soviet mole. Avni was born Wolf Goldstein in 1921, in Riga, Latvia, to social activist parents who migrated to Germany and later to Switzerland. In 1942, after serving in the Swiss army, he was recruited to Soviet intelligence by a Czech refugee named Karl Vibrel. In 1948, Avni immigrated to Israel and settled on Kibbutz Hazorea.

And don’t you even for a moment think that Mr Avni/Goldstein has spied for KGB to complement his Mossad salary. No, he was a believer, an ideologically inspired double.

The second article deals with an entirely different animal. This one is about Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Friedman, the Neturei Karta delegate to Iranian Holocaust conference.

The infamous rabbi, according to the article, is not only a despicable piece of shit, but also an idiot who cannot even produce a consistent story, not to mention his self-aggrandizing lies:

…Moshe Aryeh Friedman - by his own account, the chief rabbi of Vienna’s Jewish community, but a “kook” and an extremist who represents only himself, according to Austria’s established Jewish community…

But his position in Vienna is different than the one he expressed in Tehran, where he was quoted as saying the Holocaust was a “successful fiction,” and that it is “legitimate to cast doubt on some of the statistics” with regard to it. On Friday, Friedman claimed that he does not deny the fact that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. His sudden change in position may be explained by fear over being prosecuted in Austria, where publicly doubting the Holocaust is a crime.

I would say that the above is more than enough, but the learned “Rabbi” is too eager to add some details that may turn even strong stomach (like mine):

“I had more than one meeting with his excellency, President Ahmadinejad,” Friedman said. “The president first recognized me at the conference in Tehran and he was especially friendly. There may be only one picture in which we are photographed kissing, but in fact we kissed 20 or 30 times.”

My only hope that we’ll not see bootlegged clips of that activity on YourTube soon.

OK, so now it is time for a quiz: two individuals with totally different backgrounds, lifestyles and bios, praying to two different gods, one is dead (no tears) and the second is alive (but it will change one of these days). So what do the two have in common?

A right guess will entitle you to a honorable mention at first convenient opportunity.

Update: Bob here got it quite quickly. And no, I did not intend to make it difficult.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

“Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence,” will be airing on most PBS stations tonight. It’s on at 10 p.m. in the Richmond area. It covers the history of modern anti-Semitism, then jumps into the swamp that is the Arab and Muslim world, where Mein Kampf is a best-seller, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are taken as truth instead of the forgeries they are, David Duke is an honored guest and called a “scholar” (pardon me while I spit), and Iran holds a Holocaust denial conference.

Don’t miss it.