It's crazy season!

Via Americablog: HuffPo: Bush compares Obama to Nazi appeasers.

While in Israel.

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama ( Read more... )

Israel Deputy Defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened the people of Gaza with a "shoah".

Shoah.

Israel has arrested members of a neo-Nazi gang. Yes, they're citizens of Israel.

The eight suspects, aged 16-21, are all Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union... Police say searches of their homes yielded Nazi uniforms, portraits of Adolf Hitler, knives, guns and TNT.

There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to start.

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++ Student protesters, fighting image of apathy, call for a cohesive antiwar movement.

++ LA Times coverage of Saturday's protests.

++ Dem in VA has compiled a massive photo diary with definitive diary links collection of Saturday's DC protest. I'm not on there yet but he promised to add me. *is huge attention whore ( Read more... )

...It's becoming a game of You Know It's Bad When.

You know it's bad when...

...George Will says the surge is a bad idea. (At least, I think that's what he's saying with his disconnected Abe Simpson-esque free-associating.)

...Your plans for world domination and endless war are too evil even for John Negroponte. He's being pushed out in favor ( Read more... )

It's always the apocalypse you're not expecting. Israel plans to nuke Iran's nuclear facilities.

ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons ( Read more... )

Now we know: Ted Haggard has admitting to buying methamphetimine. He says he never used it. Supply your own "didn't inhale" joke here.

Also, I love how the BBC headline calls him "Sex-row US pastor."

Let's see, what else...

+ Nuclear secrets were online because they wanted to "unleash the blogosphere". Sadly, No commented on it last spring. ( Read more... )

Last week, the Head of the British Army said that Britain has to pull out of Iraq:

General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the army, dropped a political bombshell last night by saying that Britain must withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk serious consequences for Iraqi and British society ( Read more... )

Israel is gearing up for war with Syria and Iran.

I cannot believe the lesson they took from recent conflict with Lebanon is "We bombed the wrong place."

The Israeli defence establishment believes that Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear programme means war is likely to become unavoidable ( Read more... )

In case you hadn't heard, yesterday France and the U.S. reached an agreement on a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire (without the word "immediate").

Reaction to the resolution. I have a dim view of this page, actually. Their "Mid-East press" seems to consist of four Israeli papers, The Jordan Times, and one London paper with an Arabic- ( Read more... )