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.
On an unrelated note, a mockingbird in my backyard has developed a blood-feud with my Main Coon. Whenever he goes outside, she dive-bombs and mocks him mercilessly, hovering or landing just out of range and then swooping down and pecking his butt or tail without warning. Those are brave birds.
My friend had a Maine Coon that kept getting dive-bombed by bluejays. Earl just ignored them and ignored them and ignored them, until one day, one dive-bombed him and he leaped up, whapped it with his paw, knocked it out of the air, and walked away while the jay shook it off.
They never bothered him again.
Meantime, my Maine Coon is currently in insane kitten mode. Probably because I let him loose downstairs. There was much growling and hissing on Gracie’s behalf, but I never let Tig get close enough to see if she’d swat him as well.
Boy, can Tig run up and down those stairs, though. No worries about falling through anymore. He’s much bigger now. He’ll land just fine.
I wish that Israel would behave the way that Earl did.
Ah, there go those kitty allegations again. Proof, Meryl, proof!
I just love reading your חידודי לשון (play of language), it has so much sarcasm in it that I almost sure you were an IDF officer or an ER doctor (in Israel of course).
And to the topic I can only replay… tya… By the way did you see the http://www.coxandforkum.com caricature on the UN with the three monkeys? Look it up, you’ll love it I sure.
שבוע טוב y’all.
Nope, sorry. American born and bred. I’ve never been to Israel. Planning to go next year sometime, though.