The kingdom of Jordan, which was the guardian of Jewish holy sites from 1948 to 1967, is lecturing Israel on digging near the Temple Mount.

Jordan said on Thursday it summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest against plans for excavation and construction work near the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Jerusalem’s most volatile holy site.

“Foreign Minister Salah Bashir summoned the Israeli ambassador this week to officially inform him that Jordan rejects such illegal measures,” said MP Mohammed Abu Hdeib, head of the lower house of parliament’s committee on international affairs, after meeting Bashir on Thursday.

Really? Jordan objects to such “illegal measures”? And yet, Jordan had no such objections when it was using Jewish cemetery headstones to pave roads, knocking down synagogues that had stood for centuries, and letting the al-Aqsa Mosque fall into disrepair.

Funny how the Jordanians only find their voices about this when they’re not the ones doing the digging. And Israel has never deliberately destroyed Muslim holy sites. So we really have no comparison to speak of.

You know, I really want to tell Jordan to do something extremely disgusting, but I think I’ll just leave this post with a G rating. (”Eat [censored] and die” was what I was thinking, actually.)

A few weeks ago the Washington Post reported that Obama working to ensure the Jewish vote:

Obama’s position on Israel has been fairly mainstream. He has declared himself an undying ally of the Jewish state and has indicated that he would like the United States to return to a position of honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But his connection to his former pastor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose anti-Israel sermons were widely reported this past spring, caused concern among some Jewish groups.

“I think he does still have issues with the Jewish community,” said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), a prominent Jewish member of Congress. “In the end, I think he’s going to do as well as any Democratic nominee with the Jewish community, but people still have to feel more comfortable with him.”

How’s that effort been working out lately?

Well let’s see, the National Jewish Democratic Council is working to fight the smears at its blog:

Earlier this month JTA reported that, “Natan Sharansky said an Obama presidency would be a ‘risk’ to Israel.” This is a continuation of the fear and smear campaign against Senator Barack Obama being perpetrated by many of Senator John McCain’s supporters.

Trashing the most famous prisoner of conscience. Good thinking.

The DNC points out that both possible Republican VP choice Eric Cantor and convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff are - Jewish.

And Obama’s foreign policy adviser Daniel Kurtzer has gone to Syria to offer advice to the Syrians.

Oh and Jimmy Carter will be speaking at the Democratic convention.

Yes, this is a very comforting pattern. However, I have little doubt that Henry Waxman will be proven right in the end.

Pity.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Someone didn’t get the New York Times editorial staff’s memo. The one that said:

A way must be found to help turn Hamas into a legitimate and acceptable negotiating partner.

Because here’s what the “negotiating partner” has to say about negotiations:

“Jerusalem will be retrieved to the Palestinians not through negotiations or by hugging and kissing the enemy, but by way of jihad, blood, shahids and resistance. With Allah’s help, Jerusalem will be returned,” he said.

And if that’s not enough for you, let me remind you that Ismail Haniyeh is the man elected by the Palestinians to represent them in negotiations. And he says he won’t accept negotiations:

Haniyeh said that “according to most all reports on secret peace talks or agreements, Israel is refusing to relinquish Jerusalem and the West Bank, refuses to accept the right of return of Palestinian refugees, refuses to dismantle the settlements and deems the Jordan Valley vital to its security.

“On behalf of the Palestinian nation and Muslims everywhere, I say that we will not accept any such agreements,” he said.

So, you think the folks who write the Times editorials are going to get a clue?

When hell freezes over, perhaps.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the world media and political elite ignore statements like this (which are repeated every few weeks, without fail) and insist that Hamas can be talked to, and brought into the negotiations process. Go and peruse my Hamas category to find statements like this over and over and over again. Hamas wants one thing, and only one thing: The destruction of the state of Israel, and its replacement with an Islamic caliphate. Anyone who tells you anything different is lying.