Elie Wiesel’s attacker will be released from jail soon. I don’t have a problem with it. As I said when these facts first came to light, I really do think this is a case of a young man badly in need of chemicals to balance an unbalanced mind.

A man convicted of accosting Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel will be released from jail after a judge sentenced him to two years Monday, but gave him credit for time served and good behavior.

[...] During the sentencing, Hunt stood in his orange state-issued uniform to read a letter of apology to Wiesel, who was not at the hearing. In it, Hunt asked for forgiveness from the Nobel Peace Prize winner, saying he had been “sucked into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on the Internet” but that he does not deny the Holocaust.

“I’m tremendously sorry my mental problems infringed on your life,” Hunt read. “I hope you can live a life free of being scared of strangers.”

Those are not the words of a hard-core Jew-hater. And as I said months ago, Hunt is at the age when young men first show signs of bipolar disorder. I’m thinking the lithium is helping. I hope he can pull his life together. And I hope he stays away from the creeps who influenced him in the first place.

We were up in the Catskills today for visiting day where I saw a billboard for a concert. It was a triple billing of Journey, Cheap Trick and Heart at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. (It appears this isn’t even the original lineup of Journey!)

These groups who were big in the 70’s and 80’s are now doing what are, effectively, oldies shows.

And what’s the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts?

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a $100 million outdoor performing arts center and museum located approximately 90 minutes from New York City at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY. The 15,000 seat outdoor performing arts venue and The Museum at Bethel Woods are set within nearly 2,000 bucolic acres.

So these no longer current rock bands are playing at the site of the legendary Woodstock concert. Like they’re trying to recapture past glory.

I know it’s not nice, but for some reason I started thinking about the famous Danger Kitty commercial with this hard rock band playing at a Bar Mitzvah.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Oh, look. A modern-day kapo.

Some of Hecht-Galinski’s critics say she is misusing her deceased father’s stature as an esteemed public figure to mount an anti-Israel campaign. She has invoked the phrase “as the daughter of Heinz Galinski” to defend her criticisms of Israel.

In a Deutschlandradio interview last year, she defended the remarks of German Catholic Bishops Gregor Maria Hanke and Walter Mixa, who, while visiting Israel in March 2007, equated Israel with Nazi Germany.

“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw Ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto,” Hanke said. For Mixa, Ramallah was “ghetto-like” and “almost racism.”

The Yourish.com mantra works for people like her, too.

Hugh Chavez met with Jewish leaders last week and insisted that he’s not an anti-Semite. No, he just likes sending his goons into Jewish gatherings.

“We mentioned our concerns about anti-Semitism and asked him what his position was,” Schneider said. “And he said he was certainly not an anti-Semite.”

The socialist president said it was a “very important meeting,” but did not elaborate.

Funny. You’d think a man who was truly interested in setting to rest charges of anti-Semitism would say more than that. Because when he does things like this:

Venezuela’s Jewish groups condemned a police raid on their community center last December, saying authorities were searching for nonexistent weapons. They also have denounced graffiti on synagogue walls with slogans such as “Here are the assassins of Palestine” and “Jews go home.”

it sure looks like he has a problem with Jews—not just “Zionists.”

Yet another incident proves the French have their own little cachet when it comes to anti-Semitism.

French police are investigating the sale of T-shirts bearing an anti-Semitic slogan and have detained the owner of a Paris shop that sold the clothing.

[...] The official is not authorized to speak publicly and asked to remain anonymous, but corroborated a report that the T-shirts bear the words, in German and in Polish: “Entry to the park forbidden to Jews.”

They can’t even think up anything new. They’re recycling old German slogans. Schmucks.

And last but not least, one of the comments that I generally delete without even looking:

If there were real peace the US would not need to give Egypt any military aid or money. Use your f***ing head you stupid f***ing Jew. YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS. F***ing fake white ass c****. Go back to where you come from. Go back to europe you f***ing c***. F*** you and your families. Shalom to you yiddish piss f***s.

That’s from an anti-Semitic f**k in Brighton, England using the IP address 90.198.98.84. (They use the c-word in England like it’s “jerk” or something.) And may I say, do the world a favor and just die already, you ignorant, anti-Semitic twat. (They use that word a lot over there as well.)

It really makes you wonder: How small are anti-Semites’ penises to make them so very angry like that? I mean, their inferiority of intellect is obvious in the fact that almost none of them can make a coherent email. But there must be something else driving them. Besides their inherent stupidity, that is. Because this moron doesn’t even know that I’m living in America, not Israel, and, well, America is the country where the smart Europeans come to get away from the stupid Eureopeans like this one.

I think that one hurt its brain after reading my site.

My father used to say that the Italians were the only country in the world that fought on both sides in World War II. Well, they’ve just admitted that they’re also not beneath making deals with terrorists to keep Italy safe from harm—at the expense of the rest of the world, but mostly, of course, Jews.

It’s official: The Italian government allowed Palestinian terror organizations to act freely within its territory in exchange for their commitment to refrain from targeting national and international Italian sites.

In an article written by former Italian President Francesco Cossiga for the national newspaper Corriere della Sera he confesses, “I always knew, though not by official documents and information kept from me, about the existence of an agreement based on ‘don’t harm me and I won’t harm you’ between the Italian Republic and organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the PLO.”

According to Cossiga the agreement was approved and directed by former Italian Premier Aldo Moro, who “was awarded an extraordinary capability for the direction of Italian intelligence agencies and special forces after he received approval for the deal.”

It gets worse.

“According to the deal, the Palestinian organizations could establish bases in Italy, enjoyed freedom of movement when entering and exiting the country, and could move around without undergoing mandatory security checks because they were protected by the secret service,” Cossiga explained.

“During my time as interior minister I learned that PLO people were holding heavy artillery in their homes and protected by diplomatic immunity as representatives of the Arab League. I was told not to worry and I managed to convince them to lay down their heavy artillery and make do with light weaponry.”

This makes the Italians complicit in PLO terror attacks throughout the years, and explains utterly how Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking, managed to slip away after his plane was forced down by US fighters.

The Italian prime minister at the time, Bettino Craxi, persuaded President Ronald Reagan to hand the terrorists over to Italy on the ground that the crimes had been committed on an Italian ship.

The U.S. administration was deeply angered when the Craxi government immediately released the mastermind of the Achille Lauro operation, Abu Abbas, who was later convicted in absentia. The Craxi cabinet fell in the ensuing uproar.

And this also explains how three of the four convicted terrorists just walked away from their prison terms.

Italy’s decision to furlough a Palestinian terrorist who murdered an elderly American passenger aboard the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise liner threatened to chill Italian-U.S. relations Tuesday after the man failed to return from a leave given “for good conduct.”

[...] Privately, U.S. officials appeared to be flabbergasted and trying to figure out what to say and how to say it after learning of his flight — particularly since Mr. Molky was the third of four convicted Achille Lauro terrorists to have walked out of Italian jails in such circumstances.

This was in 1996. I think it’s safe to say that the Italians were still abiding by the agreement they made with the murderers.

So. How do you say “Eff you” in Italian, hm? Because Italy, eff you for making deals with murderers to keep yourselves a tiny bit safer. But it didn’t work all that well now, did it?

But the agreement did not always run smoothly. On August 2, 1980 an explosion shook Bologna’s train station; 85 people were killed and 200 more were injured in the blast. Cossiga believes it is entirely possible that the explosion was due to a “work accident” and that explosive materials handled by the Palestinians were responsible for the incident.

The fable of the frog and the scorpion comes to mind. Only an idiot trusts the scorpion.