Anne Frank’s diary has been censored out of a school textbook in Lebanon following a campaign by the terror group Hezbollah claiming the classic work promotes Zionism.

The row erupted after Hezbollah learned excerpts of “The Diary of Anne Frank” were included in the textbook used by a private English-language school in western Beirut.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television channel ran a report slamming the book for focusing on the persecution of Jews.

“What is even more dangerous is the dramatic, theatrical way in which the diary is emotionally recounted,” said the report aired last week and also published on the station’s website.

It questioned how long Lebanon would “remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education.”

Got it? Anne Frank’s diary has something to do with Israel. Therefore, Anne Frank was a Zionist, and Lebanese children in a private school should not be learning about how she hid from the Nazis for years and then was murdered in a death camp.

I can only infer that Hezbollah is afraid that Lebanese students might start putting two and two together and figuring out that Jew-hatred is Jew-hatred, whether you call it anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism.

Time for the Yourish.com mantra: Jew haters of the world, just die already. Preferably soon.

An Israeli Navy commando force seized control over a suspicious vessel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, which was found to be carrying weapons.

The ship is believed to have come for Iran, destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon and meant to dock in Syria.

The incident took place some 150 kilometers off the coast, near Cyprus. A fleet of smaller ships approached the vessel, sailing under the Antiguan flag, and boarded it.

The crew members showed no resistance. The ship was found to be carrying at least five containers of ammunition and weapons, under the guise of a civilian delivery.

The cargo included rockets, grenades, mortar shells and missiles. “This could be bigger than Karin-A,” a military source said.

The firm running the ship says it had no idea it was being used for weapons smuggling.

“We did not know there were weapons on the ship. We knew that we were delivering containers, but we are not legally permitted to check what is inside them. This is the responsibility of the customs authorities at the ports where we anchor. We do not know what happened on the ship. We are waiting, just like you are, for answers.”

How did the arms get on the ship? That is a very good question. Will we get answers? I think we will.

He added, “This is the first time something like this happens to us. I hope this will not damage the relations between Cyprus and Israel, because it is just business for us.”

Will we get UN condemnation? I think we won’t. But all in all: An awesome operation from IDF commandos. Something to give Iran pause, one would think.

Lebanese chefs prepared a massive plate of hummus weighing over two tons Saturday that broke a world record organizers said was previously held by Israel — a bid to reaffirm proprietorship over the popular Middle Eastern dip.

“Come and fight for your bite, you know you’re right!” was the slogan for the event – part of a simmering war over regional cuisine between Lebanon and Israel, which have had tense political relations for decades.

Lebanese businessmen accuse Israel of stealing a host of traditional Middle Eastern dishes, particularly hummus, and marketing them worldwide as Israeli.

“Lebanon is trying to win a battle against Israel by registering this new Guinness World Record and telling the whole world that hummus is a Lebanese product, its part of our traditions,” said Fady Jreissati, vice president of operations at International Fairs and Promotions group, the event’s organizer.

Yeah, you really have to concentrate on what’s important. Don’t try to break Israeli records in things like numbers of Ph.D’s per capita, or tech companies, or scientific innovation. Instead, let’s concentrate on what’s really important:

A similar attempt to set a new world record will be held Sunday for the largest serving of tabbouleh, a salad made of chopped parsley and tomatoes, that Lebanon also claims as its own.

Way to go, Lebanon. That’ll show ‘em.

Hezbollah: That was no missile, that was a door! I really want to see their video footage. They’re claiming that the group of Hezbollah terrorists seen loading a long, metallic object onto a truck were carrying a metal door. Uh-huh. I’m also eagerly awaiting UNIFIL’s explanation as to why their men were watching Hezbollah load a “metal door” onto a pickup truck. What? UN peacekeepers ignoring Hezbollah UN Resolution violations? No! You don’t say!

Khameini in a coma? Or dead? I hope it’s true. But if it is, well, Iran ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Revolution? That won’t be the half of it. It might be great news to Israel, depending on who wins the power struggle. We can always dream that client states Syria and Lebanon get left out in the cold.

Those wily Jews: While the Arabs and Muslims in the region continue their important work in improving the many ways you can carry a suicide bomb, Israelis are developing things like a battery that will last thousands of hours in hearing aids and the like. Oh, and the battery will be cheaper and cleaner than those currently on the market. No wonder Israel has more Nobel prizes than the entire Arab world combined.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah is in plain violation of an actual, binding resolution, and nobody but Israel seems to notice or care. The explosion last month of a weapons depot underneath a home in southern Lebanon raised no angry response from the UN, or even lifted eyebrows from UNIFIL, who are, uh, right there in southern Lebanon. Israel has complained. Nothing happened.

The explosion this week of another house in southern Lebanon has once again raised no apparent concern in the UN, or with UNIFIL, or even with Nobel peace prize winner Barack Obama, who is very, very concerned about peace in the middle east—when it comes to Israel’s actions, anyway. In fact, UNIFIL has sprung into action in the usual UN way.

UNIFIL said it was aware of an explosion and was in contact with the Lebanese army. “We are looking into the circumstances of the incident,” UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane said.

Ah. They’re investigating. That’ll show Hezbollah.

This time around, Israel is launching an all-out effort to see if the UN and the world will cease its hypocrisy. Instead of imagined war crimes as found in the Goldstone report, this is an actual violation of UN 1701, forbidding Hezbollah from arming south of the Litani. And Israel has proof that was what they were doing.

Of course, the AP has to spin it negatively. Note the language implying that Israel doesn’t really have proof. The IDF just said that’s what happened. It could be any old film of anyone smuggling weapons into any house, right?

The Israeli military released footage it said was shot by one of its drones in the area. It said the video shows Hezbollah members sealing off the explosion site, recovering dozens of rockets from the home and driving them away in two covered trucks.

You can go online and see the footage for yourself. Ynet has it. It’s at the IDF website. Israel isn’t just saying that Hezbollah is smuggling weapons. They’re proving it. But since it isn’t a Palestinian eyewitness supplying the testimony, obviously, it can’t be believed. (I’m feeling very sarcastic this morning, yes. Why do you ask?)

Ha’aretz reports that Israel is going to the UN.

Israel has demanded that the United Nations investigate the explosion at the Hezbollah official’s house, which it said proved munitions were being stockpiled in violation of a truce.

Hezbollah has denied that the explosion that rocked the south Lebanon house was serving as a munitions bunker, and immediately rejected media reports that a senior group official was killed in the blast.

An Israel Defense Forces source said the explosion indicated the Iranian-backed guerrilla group Israel fought in a month-long war in 2006 was keeping “banned ammunition” in southern Lebanon.

“The Israeli military has asked UNIFIL to open an investigation,” the source said, using the acronym for a United Nations peacekeeping force that has patrolled the troubled Israeli-Lebanese border area for more than three decades.

If this sounds familiar it should. There was an explosion in southern Lebanon three months ago. This was one of a series of incidents in southern Lebanon that led to a UN condemnation of Hezbollah. (via IPF)

For the first time ever, the United Nations on Thursday accused Hezbollah of violating the UN-brokered cease-fire that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon war, fought between Israel and the Shi’ite militant organization.

The UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, said Hezbollah had been operating a weapons depot in south Lebanon that was the site of an explosion last week.

He told member states there was solid evidence that the cache belonged to Hezbollah, but added that it was not known whether the weapons had been stockpiled there before or after Resolution 1701, which called for the cease-fire, was passed.

(This does not appear to be a formal condemnation, rather a criticism of Hezbollah.)

While the UN criticism of Hezbollah was welcome, it apparently hasn’t much deterred Hezbollah.

Mere Rhetoric expects that the next explosion in southern Lebanon may have a source south of the border.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Oh, wait. No they didn’t. They told the Lebanese army that terrorists were going to fire rockets into Israel. And nothing happened.

Lebanese civilians saw the terrorists drive into their area, unload the rockets, set a timer, and leave. Then they notified the authorities.

Oh, wait. No they didn’t. Nothing happened. Except that the rockets flew towards Israel.

The Israelis also filed a complaint about the rocket fire with the UN. I expect the UN to investigate the incident and issue a statement insisting that the Lebanese government is responsible for keeping its terrorists in check.

Oh, wait. No they won’t. Nothing will happen. Unless Israel retaliates, in which case, Ban Ki-Moon will issue a statement urging “all parties” to exercise restraint.

Benjamin Netanyahu warned today that Israel won’t accept these kind of attacks from Lebanon, and won’t hold back if attacked.

But nothing will happen.

Oh, wait. It will. Israel will respond if attacked, and will respond heavily. And the world will come down on Israel’s back, insisting that A) Israel is using disproportionate force; B) The Lebanese people are not responsible for Hezbollah’s action, in spite of the fact that Hezbollah is a fully-participating member of the Lebanese government; and C) Israel is deliberately targeting civilians.

And the way we know this is to check on this spin from the AP, buried deep in the article reporting on Netanyahu’s remarks:

In mid-July, a suspected Hezbollah arms depot exploded near the Israeli border. Israel said this was proof the group was rearming and stashing weapons in populated villages.

An illegal weapons depot explodes a short distance away from Israel’s northern border. UNSCR 1701 forbids Lebanon to have these weapon depots. And yet, the AP says that Israel claims this is proof that Hezbollah is rearming. Not the UN. Not UNIFIL. Israel says it, and therefore, we can question the truth of the claim.

The dates change. But really, the stories remain the same. I should just start recycling my old posts. It would save me a lot of time.

No! Not the dreaded letter to the IAEA! Iran has gotten the non-aligned nations to sign onto a letter to the IAEA pushing for a ban on attacks on nuclear plants. Hm. This is a tough one. Israel is not a signatory to the NPT, but it is a member of the IAEA. But then again, the UN General Assembly, under which the IAEA was formed, is a powerless bunch of stuffed shirts with a proven anti-Israel agenda. Israel: Fear the letter! (And by the way, wussy little Iran, after threatening Israel in so many different ways, is running to the UN for protection. Baby.)

The obligatory “Shalit deal is imminent” mention: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We keep hearing that, and yet, Gilad Shalit is still not released. And while some of the things I’m reading do seem to be leading to an actual release, well, I’ll wait until I see some results first.

Hezbullah ascendant: Funny, I thought Hezbullah lost the election, and yet, Sa’ad Hariri, whose father was killed by Syria—which sponsors Hezbullah—says they’re going to be part of the government whether Israel likes it or not. (And a big nyah-nyah to you!) Hokay. Just remember, Israel has let Lebanon know that if Hezbullah attacks again, since they’re now part of the government, it will be considered an act of war by Lebanon. Which is why Lebanese villagers are turning on Hezbullah and throwing them out of their villages.

She was leader of the pack, and now she’s gone: Ellie Greenwich, the songwriter who gave us some of the most memorable pop tunes of the 60s, died yesterday. What would this world be without Da Doo Ron Ron and Do Wah Diddy Diddy? Not to mention Be My Baby and The Look of Love. Let’s all of us take a moment to let our hearts stand still (Da Doo Ron Ron Ron Da Doo Ron Ron).

Lebanon is circling the drain: So, when Hezbollah launches the next attack, and Israel defends herself, will anyone in the UN, EU, or anti-Israel media notice that the people of Lebanon are choosing to side with the terrorsts? Druze leader Walid Jumblatt says he’s shifting alliances—which would give Hezbollah the power it’s been seeking if he throws his votes in with them. Just remember this over the shouts of disproportional force hitting the poor, innocent Lebanese who want nothing to do with Hezbollah.

If you’ve lost the AP, you’ve lost America: Even the AP is noticing that Obama isn’t going to be able to pay for all the programs he’s trying to shove down our throats—because tax revenues have dropped the most they have declined since 1932. Three cheers for Congress, eh? At this rate, we’ll be smack-dab in the Hoover Administration before you can say “depression.”

You’ve lost the AP: Yes, that would be two days in a row that the AP has noticed that Obama is not the magician he appeared to be on the campaign trail. Yesterday, tax revenues are down. Today, the AP notes that Obama can’t support his big-spending programs without taxing the middle class. Speaking as a taxable middle class person, I’m damned glad the media are finally noticing that Obama has been lying from the get-go. Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Say, how can you tell when a politician is lying? That’s right, his mouth is open. No hope, no change, just more of the same.

According to the sources, the aircraft was carrying a large number of modern fuses composed of 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of explosives and electrical instrumentation.

The report is in line with testimonies on explosion sounds heard before the crash. According to the sources, the plane was meant to transfer the fuses from Iran to Armenia, and from there to Syria through Turkey, and then on the ground to Lebanon. This route was chosen, according to exiled opposition sources, so as not to draw attention.

Chalk another one up to our terrorist buddies in Lebanon and Syria. And it’s just lovely that the Turks are complicit in this terror track as well. Why on earth shouldn’t we trust them to negotiate between Israel and Syria?