In her 30s, with long dark hair, heavy makeup and often decked out in gaudy outfits, she often gives long monologues crusading against Libya’s rebels, the NATO-led alliance bombing Gadhafi troops from the air and anyone perceived of sympathizing with them or fueling the campaign against Gadhafi. That includes Western media and, particularly, the Arab news channel Al-Jazeera, which she refers to as “the pig channel” in a rhyming play on words — the Arabic word for pig is “khanzeera.”

Okay, I do like her opinion of Al-Jazeeera, but if the Ghaddafis go, she’s dog meat. Thus proving that it isn’t only the Ghaddafis who are the nutcases in Libya.

The Gaza Flotilla—it’s ba-aaaack: So let me understand something. The flotilla alledgedly wanted to break the blockade of Gaza. Israel now ships in pretty much everything the Gazans want, and Gazans even export goods. But there’s another flotilla, a bigger one, and this one is also run by the IHH with its useful idiots from many countries on the left. About the only thing that’s being blockaded is weapons. So exactly what are the flotilla fools trying to accomplish, exactly? Help the terrorists get weapons to Gaza?

Of course that’s their goal.

By the way, AP guy who reads my blog to see what I’m saying about you—THIS is the way to write a boilerplate on the Mavi Marmara incident:

In May 31, 2010 a Navy force raided the Marmara ship which had broken the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. On board the vessel were terrorists from the IHH organization who ambushed the soldiers ahead of time. The ship also carried peace activists who apparently were not aware of the Turkish group’s intentions.

Several of the Navy commandos were attacked and kidnapped to the lower deck. The soldiers were then forced to use live ammunition and killed nine of the passengers. A week after the incident the Turkish press distributed photos of bleeding IDF soldiers captured by the activists.

Israel to enemies: Wherever you go, there we’ll bomb. Whoa. Israel attacked a car in Sudan carrying a top Hamas arms merchant. Unfortunately, the bastard survived. Expect the denunciation from the UNHRC any day now. Also: Abu Sisi, the so-called innocent man who is simply the chief engineer of the Gaza power plant, allegedly gave up the information that caused Israel to bomb Sudan.

Even more quickly: Hamas Jerusalem bomb cell caught, Hamas fires anti-tank missile into Negev, injures two, women arrested in Itamar slaying.

“A no-fly zone requires certain actions taken to protect the planes and the pilots, including bombing targets like the Libyan defense systems,” Clinton said as she neared the end of a Middle East trip dominated by worries about Libya, where a rebel offensive is apparently flagging.

Necons. Hawks. Warbloggers. You know who’s got the best item about this phenomenon? Michael Totten.

As forces loyal to Libya’s cruel and deranged tyrant Moammar Khadafy reconquer one rebel-held city after an other, the Arab League and the Arabic press are calling for a no-fly zone over the country to tip, or at least even, the odds. While I’m inclined to help the Libyans on humanitarian grounds and to advance our own national interests, the American public’s appetite is low for intervening on behalf of the rebels — and it’s largely the Arab world’s fault.

Last time Americans led a coalition to topple a mass-murdering dictatorship in the Middle East, the Arab League and the Arabic press hysterically denounced us as imperialist crusaders fighting a war for oil and Israel. Egged on by al-Jazeera, they cheerleaded the “resistance” that killed thousands of our soldiers with roadside bombs in the years that followed.

Not that I want Madman Gaddaffy to stay in office, mind you. I want him and his evil spawn as dead as Saddam and his evil spawn. But let’s take note of the utter hypocrisy of the left. They apparently aren’t nearly as anti-war now that we have a Democratic president as they were when he was a Republican.

There’s an old bumper sticker that reads, “Like your weekend? Thank a union!”

Nope. Thank the Jews. Before Shabbat, people worked seven days a week. There was no such thing as a day off for the working people. H/T: chsw.

How stupid are anti-Israel conspiracy theories? This stupid. The wife of a missing Palestinian says Israel kidnapped him because he’s a senior manager at a key power plant in Gaza. And they wanted to sabotage Gaza’s power plant. Sure. That’s absolutely why Israel would grab someone off a train in the Ukraine. Oh, and check out the photo the AP sends with the story. What a heartbreaking shot of a little girl holding a picture of her missing daddy. Those mean, mean Israelis! Is the guy a Hamasnik and a terrorist? It doesn’t matter, because this cute little girl misses him.

Not looking good for the rebel alliance: The madman is winning in Libya. Send lawyers, guns, and money. (Yes, a movie and song reference in one post. I can multitask.)

Oh, look. Another British anti-Israel media event. Yawn. But sure, they’re great friends of Israel. Just ask them.

It’s a rocket shower, just like those “crude, homemade” kassam things: Really, who writes the AP headlines? Seriously? “Gadhafi showers strategic oil port with rockets”? What’s wrong with the word “pounds”?

The new civil tone: Well, if you’re a Republican, apparently, this counts as civil behavior towards you:

Senate Republicans were harried by swarming crowds. “We tried to get out of the building after the vote, because they were rushing the chamber, and we were escorted by security through a tunnel system to another building. But, after being tipped off by a Democrat, they mobbed the exit at that building, and were literally trying to break the windows of the cars we were in as we were driving away,” Republican senator Randy Hopper tells NRO. Such tactics, he sighs, were hardly unexpected. “I got a phone call yesterday saying that we should be executed. I’ve had messages saying that they want to beat me with a billy club.”

Think it got much play in the Times? Imagine if these had been Tea Partiers mobbing Dems. Oh, the humanity!

Egyptian women’s rights protest marred by hecklers

Right. “Heckled” is the headline, though the body of the story contains the facts.

Also in Egypt, Muslims torched a Coptic Christian church. Why? Because a Muslim and a Christian were dating, and the father of the Muslim refused to murder his child for dating a Christian. The Muslims murdered the father, and then attacked the Christians. Christians fought back. There are now pitched battles in Egypt between Christians and Muslims.

In Libya, Madman Gaddaffy is flattening towns where the people are rebelling against him, and also bombing oil production terminals.

In Israel, the government has postponed by several months the decision to deport children of foreign workers who are not legal citizens of Israel.

In Ramallah, the PA censored a TV show making fun of Madman Gaddaffy.

Israel is ranged number 2 globally for having women in upper management positions in corporations.

Oh, and Israeli Jews don’t murder their women for intermarrying.

But by all means, let’s vilify Israel during the annual Israeli Apartheid festivals at universities worldwide. Because that’s where the problems are in the Middle East.

The surprise would be if they could find a single pro-Israeli Egyptian: Egypt’s new FM hates Israel. Yawn.

Wow, gas prices are sure going up fast! Gee. We need more oil. Hey, there are these rigs offshore that could get oil to us really fast, over 200,000 barrels a day! But wait—the Obama administration refuses to issue the permits to allow the drilling. So what shall we do to cut the cost of oil? I know! Let’s think about tapping the reserves, but of course, not do it. And why is that? Because Obama wants high gas prices. He wants to force Americans to conserve. The fact that high oil prices will cause all sectors of the American economy to raise prices? It’s okay. He can print more money or something. What a tool. By the way, to all of you conservatives who sat on your hands because you didn’t like McCain enough to vote for him? How do you like him now? And oh yeah—Obama’s raising money for 2012. We might have this jerk for eight years. But hey, you didn’t vote for a RINO, so good for you!

This is interesting: Shoah, the French documentary about the Holocaust, is going to be broadcast in Iran, in Farsi, on a satellite channel. I keep hearing that the average Iranians don’t hate Israel or Jews. If that’s true, this will be a very good thing.

Seriously? We were selling Libya APCs? The Obama administration was going to sell Libya APCs. Seriously? I mean, seriously? And the Bush administration sold Libya weapons, too?

Sometimes, I hate our government.

It’s all or nothing for Abbas: You know, here’s the thing. He doesn’t want a Palestinian state. He turned it down when Olmert offered him pretty much everything he wants. He’s going around the world getting people to recognize the fictional state of Palestine without sitting down and negotiating things like, oh, borders, airspace, and armies. He won’t take a transitional state. So what happens when he gets the UN to vote on recognizing Palestine? Does he think the world is going to send an army to make Israel comply? Because the UN won’t even send troops to Libya to defend them against a madman dictator. Oh, wait. I keep forgetting. The Exception Clause is in effect. The UN will never force a nation to do what it doesn’t want to do, no matter what the situation—Except for Israel.

The British PM is making sense: This is the second British Prime Minister in a row to acknowledge that Israel is being attacked by terrorists. David Cameron says Israel has the right to search ships heading to Gaza. Whoa. You are so going to be excoriated by the Guardian for that, David. (I’m sure he cares. Not.) Now, put your money where your mouth is, and stop letting your country restrict valuable parts being sold to the IDF.

Well, it’s not Patrick Henry, but it’ll do: “Victory or death,” says the leader of the Libyan rebels. I’m rooting for victory. Put that mad dog down. Someone at work got really upset when I said Gaddafy needs to be killed. This person thinks exile is good enough. Nope. I’m with Abdullah Henry above: Victory or death, preferably death to the dictator.

Yet that is the goal of Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son and possible successor to Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, as he sets out to dismantle a legacy of Socialism and authoritarianism introduced by his father 40 years ago.

“It is hard work reinventing a country,” he said in an interview last month, as he slouched on a sofa in his villa in the hills above Tripoli, picking at a tray of fruit including fresh dates brought to him by a black-suited waiter. “But that is what we are doing. We will have a new constitution, new laws, a commercial and business code and now a flat tax of 15 percent.”

In the last few years, Mr. Qaddafi, 37, who has a doctorate from the London School of Economics, flawless English and a bold independent streak, has emerged as the Western-friendly face of Libya and symbol of its hopes for reform and openness. When he was nominated last year to lead a powerful government body overseeing tribal leaders, analysts saw it as a sign of his father’s endorsement.

Barry Rubin trashed this uncritical treatment of the friendly face of tyranny.

… the once-great newspaper of broken record now gives us a long article about how great the Libyan regime and son-of-Qadhafi are. Here you can see the pattern that prevails elsewhere: taking for granted as truth the lies that dictatorial regimes and radical movements tell while endlessly explaining that just about everyone in the world except Usama bin Ladin is a moderate.

For all of the kind words used to describe Seif Qaddafi, the profile neglects to mention his role in the release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. After all if you’re showing Sief to be a moderate, why ruin it with the cynical business venture that freed a mass murderer, who wasn’t nearly as sick as we were told.

As The Lede noted last week, in 2008 the younger Mr. Qaddafi said in this extraordinary interview with the BBC that Libya had “accepted responsibility” for the actions of Mr. Megrahi and paid compensation for the Lockerbie bombing simply to bring about an end to international sanctions, but “that doesn’t mean we did it.” In the same interview, Mr. Qaddafi called the families of the Lockerbie victims “very greedy” and said, “Instead of wasting their time blackmailing us,” they should now work with the Libyan government “in order to find the real criminal who was behind that attack.”

That would have ruined the mood, wouldn’t it?
UPDATE: If the New York Times wanted to give Saif Qaddafi an unchallenged forum for his views isn’t the op-ed page the place for that not the news section?

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Still protesting his innocence and offering “sincere sympathy” to the families of those who died in the bombing, Mr. Megrahi was granted his freedom under the terms of Scottish laws permitting the early release of prisoners with less than three months to live. The Scottish authorities and his lawyers say he has terminal prostate cancer.

Well, 3 months ago Mr. Megrahi outlived his prognosis.

Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the families of American victims of the Lockerbie bombing have reignited a row over the medical advice that allowed him to be freed early from his 27-year sentence.

Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds from prison in Greenock on 20 August after the Scottish justice minister, Kenny MacAskill, received advice that he was terminally ill with prostate cancer. It was said that the Libyan, who was convicted of carrying out the bombing, only had three months to live.

Now we learn (via jswtx on Twitter) that he’s not only living but living in luxury. (memeorandum)

Megrahi, is now living in a spacious two-storey villa with his wife and their five grown-up children in a prosperous suburb of Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

Well we can hope that his next residence doesn’t have a working air conditioner and that he finds himself there soon.

Shortly after Megrahi’s release Barry Rubin observed:

Finally, and most intriguingly, is the ease of fooling–and thus making fools–of the West. Significant here is the op-ed piece by a high Libyan official in a major U.S. newspaper, denying that he had received a hero’s welcome (the same treatment as a hero that Lebanese and Syrian leaders gave recently to another terrorist who murdered civilians in cold blood).

Incidentally, how many media outlets pointed out the fact that the released prisoner was merely an intelligence officer who took his orders from Qadhafi himself? When a high-ranking intelligence officer is convicted of terrorism, it means that state-sponsored terrorism is going on. Qadhafi has the blood of those 270 Lockerbie victims on his hands.

A some of us were not fooled, but I think Megrahi’s currently comfortable circumstances testify to his value to Qadhafi and stand as a reminder that Qadhafi has not moderated.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.