The Shin Bet security service detained and deported an American Jewish professor who is a prominent critic of the Israeli occupation when he landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Friday.

There are some official reasons for booting the creep out, but the real one is:

Grammy Award winning recording artist Amy Winehouse is due in Israel “within weeks” to undergo a drug rehabilitation program, according to the London-based Jewish Chronicle newspaper.

We have a small place here, Norm, and two of you will be just one too many, you see. But you can always visit your Hezbollah buddies instead.

This is close enough for us, I suggest. And the place is fitting.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

Things for you to look at this weekend, which is a three-day weekend for us ‘Murricans.

Toldja so: Syria wants the Golan, not peace.

A Syrian government paper rejects Israel’s demand that Damascus should cut its ties with Iran and Arab militant groups as a condition for peace agreement with the Jewish State.

The state-run Tishrin says in Saturday’s editorial that any preconditions to a deal would “put the carriage before the horse” and Syria’s relations with other nations were not on the bargaining table.

That’s why it’s all for show: Mad Mahmoud is not really mad. I don’t believe this report at all. It’s all part of the plan to make it look like Syria is on the peace track.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed his surprise and displeasure at Syria’s “violation of its commitment to Iran” by holding talks with Israel, the London-based pan-Arabic daily Asharq alawsat reported Friday.

Proof that Syria’s not syrious: It’s playing the Iran/IAEA game. Funny, you’d think that if Syria has nothing to hide, they’d welcome the IAEA investigation. Which makes it even more likely that Syria was building nukes. (Like I needed any more proof than there’s already been.)

Syria has not yet accepted a request by the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the site bombed by the IAF on September 6 - which Washington says was a nuclear reactor, Reuters reported Friday.

The news agency quoted diplomats in Vienna as saying Damascus was stalling its approval of the UN delegation, demanding more details on the proposed inspection.

Yeah, tell me again how it wasn’t a nuclear reactor being built. Because why on earth would Syria care if it wasn’t?

Gaza bombardment continues: No, not the bombardment of Gaza. The bombardment by Gaza. Of course.

Israeli Double Standard Time: Egypt shot another Sudanese refugee at the Egypt/Israel border. The UN will not issue any statements about this, nor will most newspapers even pick up the story. So, are we all shocked yet? Of course not. Today is a day that ends with a “y”, which is the only time that Israeli Double Standard Time occurs.

And I’m outta here. Talk amongst yourselves. Really.