I’ve put up a short preview clip of my contribution to this week’s Shire Network News. We scored an exclusive interview with Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The topic was the Temple Mount dig, but it quickly devolved into the many devious powers of the mysterious Jew.

So, Izzy makes this big long speech at the end of the latest Grey’s Anatomy, where Meredith Grey is lying on a hospital table about to die, and it could be summed up in one sentence: I believe Meredith is not going to die because she is the star of the show, and since she’s not currently trying to renegotiate her contract, we ain’t gonna kill her.

Really. It’s incredibly difficult to suspend your disbelief when you know stuff like this.

They got him.

The man accused of trying to kidnap Holocaust author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel outside a San Francisco hotel earlier this month was arrested today in New Jersey.

Montgomery Township police confirmed that 22-year-old Eric Hunt was arrested at 10:30 a.m. PST. He faces charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime.

San Francisco police say Hunt confronted Wiesel, 78, in an elevator at the Argent Hotel on Feb. 1 during an interfaith conference and pulled him out on the sixth floor. Wiesel began screaming and his assailant fled. Police said they found Hunt’s car in the hotel’s parking garage, and Wiesel told The Chronicle that his assailant fled so quickly that the assailant left his wallet and driver’s license in the car.

Whoops.

Hunt’s father, Frank Hunt, 49, said his son called Feb. 9 and asked to be picked up at a bus station in Scranton, Pa., explaining that his car was in the shop. The elder Hunt said his son, whom he had not seen in 11 years, acted strangely, appeared disheveled and did not carry luggage.

His son mentioned nothing about Wiesel, the Holocaust or anti-Semitism in the two days he stayed with him, Frank Hunt said.

What an effing coward. Picking on an old man like that. I’m so glad he was stupid enough to leave behind rock-solid evidence to his identity. I hope he sees jail time.

Holy cow. I mean, holy cat!

Via my brother Eric.

Mahmoud Abbas told the world that it must deal with terrorists if it wants to deal with palestinians. I’d say I’m waiting for the world to tell him to take a hike, but I know that eventually, they’re going to cave to Hamas.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a defiant message to a U.S. envoy on Saturday, saying that the world would have to learn to live with a new coalition between his Fatah movement and the Islamic militant Hamas.

[...] “President Abbas told David Welch that the Mecca agreement was the only possible agreement and the world must deal with it,” Abbas’ aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh said, after the meeting in Ramallah with Welch, a senior State Department official. Abbas is to host Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday and attend a three-way meeting Monday with Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Meryl’s predictions: The unity government will fail, and it will be blamed on Israel and the U.S., particularly our refusal to accept it as the “legitimate” representatives of the palestinian people.

In the meantime, the EU will start making noises about dealing with the “new” government, Russia will urge the Quartet to do so, and, depending on what day it is, the U.S. will either agree or disagree.

Then there will be another terror attack, which the “new” government will not condemn, but which will be quoted as condemning, even as Ismail Haniyeh praises the suicide bomber.

Best-case scenario: The new unity government collapses before the above can happen.

A 70-year-old man died a year ago, and nobody noticed.

HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. (1010 WINS) — A man’s body was found in his home more than a year after his death, with the television still on and his features preserved by dry conditions, officials said.

Vincenzo Ricardo, 70, apparently died of natural causes, said Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County’s deputy chief medical examiner. Southampton Town police found Ricardo’s body this week when they responded to a report of burst pipes.

Ricardo was found in a chair in front of the television set, as though he were watching it, Dawson said.

The home’s dry air had left his features intact, morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus said.

“You could see his face. He still had hair on his head,” Bacchus said.

Ricardo’s wife died years ago, and he lived alone, Dawson said.

“He hasn’t been heard from in over a year. That’s the part that baffles me,” he said. “Nobody sounded the alarm.”

Neighbors said they had thought Ricardo was in a hospital or nursing home. Still, neighbor Diane Devon said residents at a gathering last month remarked that they hadn’t seen him in some time.

“We never thought to check on him,” she said.

You would think that somehow, someone would have noticed the the lights that never went off, or the fact that they never saw the old many anymore, and check up on him. I suppose there was a mail slot in the door, so the letter carrier wouldn’t know about the year-long pile of mail gathering dust on the other side of the door. I wonder why his electricity wasn’t turned off at some point. I know they won’t do it in the wintertime, but they will in the summer.

Sad. To have no friends, and no family to notice that you died. To be dead for a year without anyone knowing.

I nearly slipped down the stairs—backwards—last night. I overbalanced momentarily while I was at the top of the stairs and recovered. Then I took a moment to sit down and reflect that I could have broken my neck. I started wondering how long it would take people to figure out there was something wrong, and I came up with Sunday, because I’m supposed to go to a concert that Sorena is taking part in. Monday the latest, because that’s when Sarah gets home from her weekend trip, and will be calling me about arrangements for me to take Jake to his concert (it’s a concert week for me, what can I say). Or, worst-case scenario, Tuesday, because I teach religious school. In the summertime, when school’s out, all bets are off.

Yes, I get these morbid thoughts from time to time. I live alone. You’d get them too, if you lived alone.

I’m getting more and more careful on the stairs as I get older.

The piece of crap that tried to force Elie Wiesel to have an “interview,” and then bragged about it on the internet, is being charged with enough felonies to put him away for years.

The warrant issued Friday for Eric Hunt, 22, is for charges including attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and committing a hate crime.

Wiesel was a featured speaker at a Feb. 1 peace forum. He was approached in the lobby by a man in his 20s who asked for an interview, police said.

Wiesel agreed to talk in the lobby, but the man insisted the interview be conducted in a hotel room, and got into the elevator with Wiesel. Once on the sixth floor, the suspect dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator. Wiesel began yelling, and the suspect ran away, police said.

It turns out that Eric Hunt is a New Jersey Nazi, and that he’s about to be flown, courtesy of the California justice system, back to San Francisco:

San Francisco police said they are very close to arresting a man who may have attacked author Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel.

A $500,000 arrest warrant was issued Friday for Eric Hunt, 22, of Sussex County, N.J. San Francisco Police Sgt. Steve Mannina said an arrest is likely to take place “very soon,” but that until an arrest is made, no further details about the investigation will be made public.

Sounds like they’ll have their man, and soon. Which just goes to show you: You shouldn’t try to harm an old man and then brag about it on the Internet (http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3217/90/). (Warning: Pasting that link into your browser leads to a revolting anti-Semitic site; read at your own risk.)

On February 1st, at approximately 7:30 p.m., I attempted to get a confession out of the “Pope of the Holocaust religion,” Elie Wiesel. We were in an elevator in the Argent Hotel in San Francisco. He was on his way to the 36th floor Penthouse. I had planned to bring Wiesel to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious.

After ensuring no women would be traumatized by what I had to do (I had been trailing Wiesel for weeks), I stopped the elevator at the sixth floor. I pulled Wiesel out of the elevator. I said I wanted to interview him. He protested, grabbed at his chest as if he was having a heart attack. He then screamed HELP! HELP! at the top of his lungs. This is someone who in his public appearances, speaks so softly, that when he appeared on Oprah, they had to use subtitles throughout. Wiesel had dropped this phony persona and assumed his actual personality, of an insane lunatic.

I told him, “Why, you don’t want people to know the truth?” His expression changed, and he began screaming again. HELP! HELP! So, after pulling him about fifteen feet out of the elevator, alerting a few floors, I decided that it was time for me to go. He was no use to our worldwide struggle for freedom if he had a heart attack. I fled from the scene, confident that the police would arrive soon and search the city looking for the insane person who attempted to forcefully interrogate a poor old “Holocaust Survivor”, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and most recently, “knight of the British Empire.”

I had planned on either: getting Wiesel into my custody, with a cornered Wiesel finally forced to state the truth on videotape, getting arrested, or fleeing, and either way, exposing the “Pope of the Holocaust religion” for being nothing but a genocidal liar. However, a funny thing happened, Wiesel apparently never called the police.

Whoops, guess what, Eric Hunt: He did call the police, after all.

Watch for the lying, Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying POS to say that he’s currently undergoing treatment for some kind of mental illness, and that made him do it.

I hope they throw the book at him.

An incredibly depressing article in the Weekly Standard about Iran’s Jew-hatred. Ahmadinejad is just the latest in a long line of Hamans.

Just as Hitler sought to “liberate” humanity by murdering the Jews, so Ahmadinejad believes he can “liberate” humanity by eradicating Israel. The deniers’ conference as an instrument for propagating this project is intimately linked to the nuclear program as an instrument for realizing it. Five years ago, in December 2001, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani first boasted that “the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything,” whereas the damage to the Islamic world of a potential retaliatory nuclear attack could be limited: “It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality.” While the Islamic world could sacrifice hundreds of thousands of “martyrs” in an Israeli retaliatory strike without disappearing–so goes Rafsanjani’s argument–Israel would be history after the first bomb.

It is precisely this suicidal outlook that distinguishes the Iranian nuclear weapons program from those of all other countries and makes it uniquely dangerous. As long ago as 1980, Khomeini put it this way: “We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”

Anyone inclined to dismiss the significance of such statements might want to consider the proclamation made by Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who stands even higher in the Iranian hierarchy than Ahmadinejad. A few months ago, on November 16, 2006, Rahimian explained: “The Jew”–not the Zionist, note, but the Jew–”is the most obstinate enemy of the devout. And the main war will determine the destiny of mankind. . . . The reappearance of the Twelfth Imam will lead to a war between Israel and the Shia.” The country that has been the first to make Holocaust denial a principle of its foreign policy is likewise the first openly to threaten another U.N. member state with, not invasion or annexation, but annihilation.

Read in full recommendation.