Friday briefs

A good thing happened, for a change: Thank you, Jordanians, for being the sane Israeli neighbors. The call to replicate the Egyptian violation of international law and centuries-old treaties by protesting in front of (and attacking, of course) the Israeli embassy drew only a few hundred. Apparently, the average Jordanian has better things to do than fight with security forces. Also, Jordan respects the laws and had a strong security presence in advance of the “protest”. Here’s hoping the forces of Islamism are weak there, because the last thing Israel needs is a war on all fronts.

About effing time: The U.K. finally amended the law that enables any idiot to put out an arrest warrant for anyone in the world, and yet, that action seems to be nearly exclusively used to file arrest warrants against Israelis. Why is that, we wonder? (Can you say, “Jew-hatred”? We knew you could.) The U.K. ambassador insists five other countries had people with arrest warrants taken out on them. Really? Name them. Besides Tzipi Livni, they charged Emir Peretz, Moshe Yaalon, Ehud Barak, and General Doron Almog, forcing the last to stay on his plane at Heathrow in order to avoid arrest. Really, dude, name the other five people charged, because I’m calling bullshit on you.

More tough talk from Turkey: Once again, a NATO member is threatening a fellow NATO member’s ally. Time for Barack Obama to prove he can threaten someone besides the ruling council of Egypt. Really, why isn’t our Secretary of State responding to the threats continuously being made by Turkey against Israel?

And yet, there are no leaks of 45-minute dressing-downs by the Secretary of State: The Palestinians are openly defying the Obama Administration. The AP is actually writing that the Palestinians are openly defying the U.S. But since it isn’t about a long-planned release of tenders for a suburb of Jerusalem being released during at vice-presidential visit, apparently, it doesn’t rate very high on the Obama Outrage Scale. And by “openly defying,” we mean, “OPENLY DEFYING.”

In a direct challenge to the United States, the Palestinians said Thursday they will ask the Security Council next week to accept them as a full member of the United Nations, even though Washington has promised to veto the measure.

Really, you can’t get much more defiant than that. So what’s the Obama Administration doing? Scrambling. Double standards? You betcha!

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