If you don’t watch The Daily Show, you probably haven’t seen this incredibly funny interview with Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman.

Put down your drinks, ladies and gents. You have been warned.

Via Omri, who can’t just enjoy the humor, but has to add something depressing to the post.

So it comes to this: Hamas can blatantly admit that it kidnapped Gilad Shalit in order to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners from jail, and nobody so much as raises an eyebrow—and fully expects Israel to deal with Hamas as if it is a legitimate organization.

Osama Mazini, a top political leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, said on Thursday that his movement still hasn’t received an official response from Israel to the list of prisoners that was presented to the Israeli government last week.

In response to reports that Israel had expressed reservations about the list, Mazini said Schalit’s captors would not come up with a new list of names. “The captors have the right to put any name they want on the list,” he said. “If Israel does not accept the original list, there will be no room for more negotiations.

“The soldier was kidnapped in order to free as many Palestinians as possible, especially those who are serving lengthy sentences.”

It’s absolutely unbelievable that when Israel refuses to free the murderers on this list, the world will erupt in anger—over Israeli “intransigence.” And yet, that is what will happen.

Yes, we now call it Israeli Derangement Syndrome. Because when it comes to all things Israeli, a large part of the world is batshit crazy. Especially the Arab/Muslim part of the world. The newest batshit crazy rumor? That Israeli melons carry AIDS.

“Beware of Israeli melons infected with AIDS arriving in Saudi Arabia!” is the latest rumor being spread throughout Saudi Arabia like a wildfire.

An SMS message being sent around the country this week said, “The Saudi Interior Ministry warns its citizens of a truck loaded with AIDS infected melons that Israel brought into the country via a ‘ground corridor.’”

The Interior Minister’s spokesman General Mansour al Turki responded to news of the message and made it clear to a-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that the Ministry “did not issue any such announcement. This is just a rumor.”

This is not the first rumor to spread through the country recently. Just last month another rumor had it that sweets containing carcinogenic flour were being sold in many stores.

And the really funny thing about this, besides, well, everything? The AIDS virus can’t survive outside the body. Not that the facts are going to stop Saudis from thinking the worst of Israel.

Head of the center for chemicals and toxins in Mecca, Dr Ahmad Elias also stressed that there was no truth to these rumors.

“The center is the first official body that would receive such information, if it were true, in order to investigate and inform the relevant bodies to take the necessary steps,” said Elias.

“The HIV virus cannot survive in any temperature other than that of the human body, which can not be reached in fruits,” he explained.

The rumor, despite being denied several times, has gained so much steam in the Arab world that it made it to the front page of one of the most important Arabi language newspapers.

Uh-huh. This one goes hand-in-hand with the story of the poisoned Zionist balloons drifting into Lebanon.

Batshit crazy. I’m telling you, when it comes to Israel, the Arab world is batshit crazy.

Especially since Saudi Arabia boycotts Israeli goods. But once again, don’t let facts get in the way of a good round of Jew-hatred.

NJ Governor Jon Corzine was on his way to mediate a meeting between the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team and Don Imus, bigot shock jock (yeah, we knew he was a bigot for years, but his remarks against Jews don’t raise eyebrows). The governor’s SUV crashed.

The crash occurred about 6 p.m. as Corzine’s two-car motorcade was heading north to Princeton after a long day of travel that included appearances in Pennsylvania, Bergen County and South Jersey.

Corzine was sitting in the front passenger seat of the black Chevy Tahoe, alongside his driver, Trooper Robert Rasinski, according to New Jersey State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes. In the back sat Samantha Gordon, an aide who typically accompanies Corzine when he travels beyond the Statehouse.

It was not immediately clear if the governor or the others were wearing seat belts.

“The State Police will be addressing that in their investigation,” Coley said.

The motorcade was headed north in the left lane just past mile marker 44 when a red pickup truck entered the road from the shoulder and crossed into the path of a white Dodge Ram truck, police said.

The Dodge then swerved in front of the governor’s SUV, colliding with the Tahoe and sending it careening onto the highway median and into the metal guardrail, police said.

There are going to be many who are going to blame the whole Imus thing for this. But I’m wondering why it takes an investigation to discover whether or not the governor was wearing a seat belt.

Let me give you a story of two other high-speed crashes. One of them involved a fairy princess in the far-off land of England, who was not wearing her seat belt as the car she was in was driven by rapacious, evil paparazzi. It crashed. She died. So did everyone else in the car, except for the man wearing his seat belt.

Then there was the story of another Jersey guy who was coming home from a business trip on a two-lane highway in NJ on Saturday afternoon. A drunk driver passed out behind the wheel and hit him head-on, doing 55 mph, the legal speed limit. He broke both arms and his nose, but he survived. So did the drunk, who suffered only bruises. They were both wearing their seat belts. The innocent driver was my brother.

If the governor of NJ was not wearing a seat belt, my sympathy level for him evaporates. Completely. And I find it rather suspicious that no one else in the car was badly injured. HOWEVER—it does look like the front passenger side took the most damage. So I’m reserving judgment until I hear the news conference later today.

Update: He wasn’t wearing his seat belt.

“It does not appear that the governor was wearing a seat belt,” said Anthony Coley, the governor’s spokesman, at a press conference outside Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where hospital and government officials held a press conference at 11:35 a.m.

Moron.

Hospital sources who did not want to be named say Corzine is in worse condition than is publicly acknowledged, and that he’s likely to be in a wheelchair for at least six months.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Seat belts saved my life, and saved me from serious injury more than 20 years ago, when wearing seat belts wasn’t mandatory. I would never travel on a highway without my seat belt secured.

Ridhard Codey is going to be the NJ substitute governor for some time.