Having caught the last half of an early Gilmore Girls episodes, I am now utterly sure that I will not waste my money on season seven, none of which were written by Amy Sherman-Palladino.

You really can tell the difference.

Back to cleaning house. As soon as my stubbed toe stops throbbing.

Dammit.

This rumor went flying around the Internet months ago, and I gave it short shrift, because it sounded like a load of crap to me. Turns out that’s exactly what it is, and Snoopy’s got the scoop.

The Jew-haters in the world will do anything to defame us. It’s bad enough we have to claim Noam Chomsky and Norm Finkelstein. Don’t throw the rest of the left’s garbage our way, please.

Hearts all over the leftosphere that were breaking, however, over the possibility that Che was a [gasp!] Jew can now rest easy. He was not.

It is not to say that journalists shouldn’t pursue an interesting story where they can. And interviewing Khaled Meshaal, the under-assassinated head of Hamas, is a good story.

This article, however, is almost totally devoid of anything new, aside of that dramatic description of the circumstances surrounding the interview itself. Yeah, I know, there was a video shown on CNN, which was also kinda shallow. But the opening lines of the story just take the cake:

Sitting in a room with the top Hamas leader - a man Israel would prefer dead - is not an easy feeling, knowing that at any second a missile could shatter the building, killing everyone inside, myself included.

It is not that there was any real concern - after all, Israeli jets have not launched missiles at any targets in Damascus for quite a long time. But what wouldn’t one do for a bit of a drama?

So what were the main messages conveyed by Meshaal?

We did not blackmail Israel, and we gave free information to Gilad Shalit’s father and his family that Gilad Shalit is still alive.

Read Jack talking about this crap.

Hamas changed a lot and great efforts have been made to conform with the realistic positions of Palestinians and Arabs.

Yeah, right. It will be an overwhelming message to the citizens of Sderot, remember?

“We have decided to make Sderot a ghost town,” said a spokesman for Hamas who gave his name as Abu Ubeideh. “We are not going to stop launching our rockets until they leave.”

I do not recall Meshaal or any other Hamas VIP rescinding this policy and I do not see the end to this practice. Do you?

“I am 51 years old, and the past 10 years have been a gift from above,” he told CNN.

Not only is it true, it is also not his fault…

Palestinians and the Arab world will cling to his words, but perhaps his most captivated audience will be the state of Israel.

Nope.

As if to stress that renewed peace drive of Hamas, comes this news:

Hamas may carry out a mega-terror attack, the Deputy Shin Bet Chief, known only as Y, told cabinet members Sunday. “There were clear orders from the Hamas headquarters abroad to Hamas here to carry out a mass casualty attack in Israel,” he said.

That sounds more likely…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

Ehud Barak thinks that mobile checkpoints will do the job that stationary checkpoints are doing.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants to replace permanent checkpoints in the West Bank with mobile ones, to ease restrictions on Palestinian traffic while still safeguarding Israel’s security. However, he believes that such a change cannot be implemented immediately, as the Israel Defense Forces must first train a sufficient number of troops in the new methods, which is likely to take some time.

Barak held his first meeting with senior defense officials on the checkpoint issue last week.

[...] While Barak says he favors improving Palestinians’ lives, his overriding commitment is to Israel’s security. Barak fears that if a suicide bombing were to originate from an area where checkpoints had been removed, this would stymie further progress; he would therefore like to ensure that a workable alternative is in place before removing any checkpoints.

Gee, ya think?

I’m not getting how mobile checkpoints are going to be any more secure. Any way you look at it, they seem less secure. Once again, instead of removing the checkpoints by having the Palestinians cease terror against Israel, Israel is bending to the needs of the terrorists. Unbelievable.

First they send rockets into Israel, cross the border illegally, kill Israeli soldiers, and kidnap two, of whom we’ve received absolutely no proof of life. Now, Hezbollah is going to sue Israel—for the war that they started.

Hezbollah is planning to file a host of lawsuits against Israel over the damages it caused during the Second Lebanon War. Lebanese individuals with dual citizenship will file the suits in the countries where they hold citizenship.

Attorney Ibrahim Awada, who heads Hezbollah’s legal department, revealed the plan last week on a Syrian television program devoted to “Zionist crimes against Lebanon.” He said that each plaintiff will hire a lawyer in the country where he files suit, and Hezbollah will pay the lawyers’ fees.

The Lebanese government began mulling lawsuits against Israel immediately after the war ended last summer, but was stymied by the fact that United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the war, blamed Hezbollah, rather than Israel, for its outbreak. The government therefore set up a legal committee to explore more limited options, such as suits specifically over Israel’s use of cluster bombs and destruction of infrastructure.

Yeah, good luck with that, schmucks. I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Israel isn’t going to bother responding to this one. It’s almost as stupid as the Egyptians threatening to sue Israel for the property the Hebrew slaves took from Egypt. (That one was ended when Jewish lawyers threatened to countersue for 400 years of slavery.)

Of course, if they bring suit in the EU, Britain, or the ICC, well, that’s a different story.

Robert Fisk went Troofer last week. And here, on 26h, he’s fisked. Beautifully. Remember, Bobby: The troof will set you free.

Via Harry’s.