I’ve got the subject. Here’s what I need from my readers: Audio clips of journalists, analysts, and especially military correspondents reporting the good news from Iraq. The clips don’t have to be long, just short quotes about how things are finally turning around, or going well.

We’re not planning to have an SNN podcast out this week, but perhaps I can persuade the boys to put a short one up before next week. Right now, Tom wants to change us to fortnightly until we get on our feet. (That’s “biweekly” in American. Damned Anglosphere needs translating sometimes.)

The only country in the Middle East without oil has an economy that’s going like gangbusters, and here’s one reason why:

The Israeli stock market is on a roll. Over the past five years to October 15, the Tel Aviv 100-stock index gained a healthy 29% annualized.

Now comes word that Israel’s market is being called up to the big leagues, which should result in yet a higher profile for Israeli stocks. The FTSE Group, keeper of more than 100,000 stock, bond and hedge-fund indexes, says it will promote Israel from emerging-market to developed-nation status next June. Because more investors buy into developed markets than emerging nations, the change will pump an additional $3 billion into Israeli stocks, estimates Merrill Lynch strategist Michael Hartnett.

I won’t even bother comparing this news to any news coming down the pike from the oil-driven economy nations, awash with even more oil money in these days of record prices. I can’t wait for the day an alternative fuel discovery knocks the bottom out of the oil market. On that day, the economies of the dictatorships, kleptocracies, thugocracies, mullahcracies, and sheikocracies will collapse. Israel’s will remain strong and thriving.

Why am I not surprised to read this?

At the end of the meeting, the Israeli official invited the Prince of Wales to visit the Jewish state for its 60th anniversary celebrations.

Following the meeting, the Jewish Chronicle reported Friday, Israeli Ambassador to Britain Zvi Heifetz invited Sir Michael Peat, Prince Charles’s principal private secretary, and Clive Alderton, deputy private secretary, to Israel as a prelude to a possible official visit by the prince.

In August, Sir Michael — copying in Alderton — expressed enthusiasm for the idea, replying in an email to the embassy, “The invitation is hugely appreciated and Clive and I would love to come.”

However, a private email exchange a month later between the two aides to the prince revealed a completely different picture.

In the exchange of emails seen by the JC, Alderton privately sought reassurance from his superior that the pair need never accept the invitation.

Alderton — whose responsibilities include foreign affairs and relations with ethnic and faith communities and who has accompanied Prince Charles and his wife on a visit to Kuwait in February— complained to Sir Michael in an email of being “pursued” by the ambassador, and asked: “Safe to assume there is no chance of this visit ever actually happening?

And here’s the killer quote:

“Acceptance would make it hard to avoid the many ways in which Israel would want HRH (Prince Charles) to help burnish its international image. In which case, let’s agree a way to lower his expectations.”

Yes, why on earth would England want to make Israel look like, say, Saudi Arabia? After all, the one nation allows Christians to worship freely, and the other refuses to allow so much as a crucifix or a bible into it. So why would the Brits want to burnish the image of a nation where there is democracy and freedom of worship, where thieves are merely sentenced to jail terms instead of having their hands cut off, and where homosexuality and adultery is not punishable by death? I really can’t see a reason for wanting to promote Israel over the dictatorships and medieval hellholes of the Middle East.

Except for the obvious one, of course. Brits hate the Jews. We see that in so many different ways, that I wonder why Jews still remain in the U.K.

When contacted by the JC with evidence of the email exchange, a spokesman for the Prince of Wales tried to play down its significance.

“This is simply an internal email about a possible visit by Clarence House officials to Israel,” he told the JC. “Any potential visit by the Prince of Wales would be undertaken at the recommendation of the government.

Uh-huh. Just an email exchange. By one of the people who arranges the international visits of the Prince of Wales. About how little he wants Charles to do anything positive for the Jewish State.

Remember, though, it isn’t anti-Semitism. It’s anti-Zionism.