11-11-11 briefs

Today is Veterans Day, and nephew Nate’s birthday, which he is celebrating by leading services today and tomorrow in honor of his becoming a bar mitzvah. Woots all around!

The Obama doctrine strikes again: Dividends of Libyan chaos? SAMs in Gaza, and Israel equipping its civilian airliners with missile defenses, at a cost of over a million bucks per plane. Let me repeat that: Israel is equipping its civilian airliners with missile defenses. And Israel is the nation that is vilified, not the terrorists in Gaza and the terrortories [sic] who try to murder civilians.

The price of ignoring the rules: UNESCO is cutting back on services and asking member states to pay 2012 dues faster to make up for losing U.S., Canadian, and Israeli dollars. All together now: Awwwww. This is the organization that is declaring Jewish sites part of the “Palestinian” heritage. Yeah, I’m so sad that we’re not spending our tax dollars there anymore.

But the Arab press can keep on publishing anti-Semitic cartoons, as usual: You know, UN bureacrats are even dumber than you thought they were. UNESCO has filed a complaint against Israel over a cartoon in Ha’aretz that depicted Netanyahu ordering the bombing of UNESCO offices after hitting Iran. And why are they dumber than we could possibly believe? Because the cartoon was a knock on Netanyahu by Ha’aretz.

Falt told Barkan the cartoon constituted incitement.

“A cartoon like this endangers the lives of unarmed diplomats, and you have an obligation to protect them,” Falt said, according to an Israeli source. “We understand that there is freedom of the press in Israel, but the government must prevent attacks on UNESCO.”

Funny how they can’t seem to find any incitement in Palestinian cartoons.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know: Time for another “OMG! 30,000 people signed up to be suicide bombers against Israel!” story. Total number of people who have actually carried through an attack after signing up: Zero. Shaking in our boots, we are.