Check out this change in the story about Palestinians entering Israel. From yesterday’s story:

Hamas, which wrested control of the Gaza Strip last month, denounced the deal since it allowed Israel to decide who could enter Gaza. Hamas officials and supporters would presumably not be allowed to enter through Israel.

And now, today’s:

Hamas has criticized the plan to transfer the stranded Palestinians through the Al-Oja and Erez crossings, saying it increases Israel’s control over Gaza. Hamas officials and supporters would presumably not be allowed to enter through Israel.

I should check my server logs. But I think someone at the AP reads my blog.

Good.

A Rahel fundraiser: You folks helped me out big-time last year when Gracie was sick, and now we need to help Rahel. The vet bills were high, but Lady has recovered from her diabetes and is happy and healthy and no longer a stray. Paypal won’t send money to Israel (I don’t know why; I’m working on that). So I think we’re going to have to send checks. Or international money orders.

Them’s fighting words: I want this t-shirt. I REALLY want this t-shirt.

Can’t drive in Saudi Arabia, but she can drive in Israel (that racist, apartheid state): A Muslim woman taxi driver in Jerusalem, and the BBC notices. (And they don’t seem to be able to hit Israel with anything for it, either.) Seriously? There’s only one woman cab driver in Jerusalem? You know, come to think of it, I never had a woman cab driver in NYC. Not once.

Sending your children off to war: The left can pretend that the world is really a peaceful place, but it isn’t. Lady-Light writes about her daughter’s choice of unit for her IDF service.

Haveil Havalim: I forgot last week’s, which was at Reb Chaim HaQoton’s. Complete with commentary. Well, what’d you expect, with a name like Reb Chaim? (Oh, so that’s where Sabba Hillel got the post about the cost of building the First Temple. Billions and billions, folks.)

Never too late for Tisha b’Av: Judith Weiss’ annual Tisha b’Av post. Read it, and weep. Really.

The great, brave leader of Hezbollah, who was hiding in some underground bunker somewhere, afraid to show his face, told Israel that she had achieved none of her objectives during last year’s war. Proof again that the Arab/Muslim world seems utterly immune to irony.

But Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, said the U.S. vision aimed at reinforcing Israel.

“There is no new Middle East,” Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told a mass rally in the southern town of Bint Jbeil, one of the towns hardest hit by the war. “It’s gone with the wind.”

Nasrallah did not personally attend the rally to mark the first anniversary of the war which Hezbollah calls “a divine victory. His speech was relayed to the crowd on a giant screen set up in the main square of Bint Jbeil.

Yes, brave man, addressing the rally from somewhere else for fear of an IDF Hellfire salute to Nasrallah.

There is, of course, the obligatory AP anti-Israel bias:

The offensive killed more than 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians, according to tallies by the Lebanese government, human rights groups, and The Associated Press. Hezbollah launched nearly 4,000 rockets at Israel during the war, which killed 119 Israeli soldiers and 39 civilians

The IDF reckons that more than half the Lebanese killed were members of Hezbollah. These figures are never cited as an alternative, however.

Israel identified 440 dead guerrillas by name and address, and experience shows that Israeli figures are half to two-thirds of the enemy’s real casualties. Therefore, Amidror estimated, Hezbollah’s death toll might be as high as 700.

There’s also word out today that one of the two kidnapped soldiers is dead. But we’re not going to know unless there is a deal made with Hezbollah, and so far, that shows no sign of happening.