I’ve got two up in the Best Post Overall category.

My two are:

This is a Zionist Blog: End of Discussion

and

Hamas Propaganda in the WaPo.

Pick one and vote.

Thanks.

I just want to say that diets suck.

And by “diet” I don’t mean “The XYZ Diet.” I mean the one where you cut out most sweets, fats, and unnecessary calories like the ones in (sigh) Coke.

And I haven’t even gotten to the “exercise” part of my weight loss program.

And by “program” I don’t mean “Fad of the Month” program. I mean simple exercise, every day, for a certain amount of time. Can’t decide between my Gazelle Glider and the apartment gym. I need the DVDs for the glider. Been meaning to get those.

I need to shed a bunch of pounds by November. I want to fit into some of my old outfits. Plus, I want a flat stomach again.

Mind you, I’ll settle for mildly rounded.

This is not good. Not good at all. From IMRA:

Foreign experts: Syria secretly built 30 underground bunkers to enable rocket attack before IAF can destroy them
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 30 April, 2007

Yediot Ahronot correspondent Arieh Egozi reports in today’s edition [page 9] that foreign experts say Syria has built a huge underground compound that
includes 30 steel reinforced concrete bunkers, production facilities, development labs and command posts. This new “rocket city” has missiles that can cover the entire area of Israel. In contrast to mobile deployment systems that are easy prey to air attacks, the bunker system is designed to enable Syria to launch many missiles against Israel before the IAF can take them out.

Syria has some 200 Scud B, 60 Scud C and an unknown quantity of North Korean made 700 kilometer range Scud D’s. According to Egozi last February Israeli surveillance noted a Syrian launching of an improved Scud that is more accurate, can cause greater damage and is more difficult to intercept, terming it “a reason for great concern.”

According to foreign experts, the chemical weapons heads for the rockets are stored in another location.

In the next Syrian war, there will be missiles in downtown Tel Aviv.

And somehow, the world will find a way to blame Israel for it.

Grab your kids and hold them tight, the end of the world is nigh. I found an article on Mordecai Vanunu that does not call him a “whistleblower.”

An Israeli court has convicted a former nuclear technician of violating a gag order for speaking with foreign journalists.

The case goes back more than 20 years and exposed Israel’s nuclear secrets to the world.

Mordechai Vanunu was back in court, convicted of violating a court-imposed gag order by speaking with foreign journalists. Vanunu was also found guilty of attempting to leave Jerusalem through the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

In 1986 Vanunu was sentenced to eighteen years in prison after he gave an interview to a British newspaper detailing his duties at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor, where he said Israel produced 40 kilograms of plutonium for use in hydrogen and neutron bombs. Since he was released from prison he has been banned from leaving Israel or speaking with foreigners.

And how did I find this gem?

Via this moron.

Israel persecutes nuclear whistleblower
The Israeli authorities continue to persecute Mordechai Vanunu, the man who revealed the country’s nuclear secrets in the Sunday Times 21 years ago. He spent 18 years in prison for blowing the whistle.

I’ll be damned. I just found the article’s source. It’s Reuters.

Mind you, there are all of ten stories on Google News without the word “whistleblower” used to describe Vanunu, but credit where it’s due.

That makes one story out of a zillion. If they keep this up, in twenty years, they’ll be—well, virtually unchanged.

The Palestinian-Egyptian relationships are souring.

Angry Palestinian demonstrators stormed the Egyptian embassy in Gaza City on Monday, demanding that Egypt release five Palestinians held in Cairo jails.

Palestinian security forces fired shots above the heads of a crowd of protesters to force them out of the embassy, said security official Ali Qaisi. Protesters said they tried to block an Egyptian official’s car, demanding he speak to the crowd. When security guards pushed them back, they ran onto embassy grounds.

Why is that, exactly?

Relations hit a low after Col. Burhan Hamad, head of Egypt’s security delegation in Gaza, criticized Palestinian militants for firing rockets at Israel, drawing a flood of angry statements by militant factions.

Oh. The Egyptians are asking the Pals not to kill Israelis. Damn those Egyptians! Don’t they understand that it’s the “legitimate right”?

Palestinian teachers are on strike.

So, you mean they won’t be in the classroom teaching their students to hate Jews? May the strike last forever.

The thugs who kidnapped Alan Johnston want more money. Or something. The “negotiators” aren’t telling the press.

A senior Palestinian official said Monday that a kidnapped British reporter is still alive and the men holding him had made new demands but were turned down.

Deputy Prime Minister Azzam al-Ahmed said the kidnappers confirmed that 44-year-old British Broadcasting Corp. correspondent Alan Johnston was in good health. Johnston was abducted near his Gaza City apartment March 12.

Al-Ahmed would not say who talked to the kidnappers or how it was known that they have Johnston, although he indicated there had been previous phone contact with them. In Gaza it is widely believed that the identity of the kidnappers is known, but that no move has been made against them in order not to endanger the journalist.

They’ve known who had Johnston since he was kidnapped, just as they know who’s holding Gilad Shalit. It’s one of Gaza’s largest clans. They’ve simply been lying about it.

Al-Ahmed said efforts to win the reporter’s release had reached a sensitive stage.

“We hope it will end soon,” he said. “If we don’t reach an agreement, the law will take its course, whatever method we will use to end this issue which has given the Palestinians a bad image.”

Al-Ahmed described the abductors as a criminal gang, but would not say whether they demanded ransom. He said the kidnappers had been trying to present the abduction as an ideological act.

And if you’re not interested in clicking through, it’s the Durmush clan. What a great bunch of people they must be. Word is they’re the ones who are also holding Gilad Shalit. Must be that fabled Arab hospitality. They like you so much, they never let you leave, or something.

Gaza. Go visit it for your next vacation. Remember to bring your own bodyguards, though.