Saturday morning catchup

The usual; too many Firefox tabs and not enough time:

1) Andrew Klavan supports a one state solution to the problems of the Middle East...

'In an effort to bring peace to the Middle East, President Barack Obama has proposed that Israel should return to its 1967 borders in exchange for being annihilated by its enemies. PJTV's Andrew Klavan has a better idea.'

2) Miley Cyrus cover Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'!?!?

BuddaCharlie seems willing to comment on something he really knows very little about...



3) 'Labour is accused of 'rank opportunism'' - I know it's hard to imagine Labour being opportunistic! The Mail have the details of this particular piece of Labour opportunism. Beware there's a picture of the ever smugger Ed Balls next to the text:

'Labour was accused of ‘rank opportunism’ last night as it signalled plans to form an alliance with Eurosceptic Tory MPs in a bid to limit the amount of taxpayers’ cash used to bail out the euro.

In a U-turn devised by Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Labour said it would step up criticism over the billions being spent to prop up failing Eurozone countries – and could even try to vote down the next bailout package.'

4) The Mail reports that:
'A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine.

Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home.

Friends said she liked wearing fashionable clothes and had come seventh in a beauty contest.


5) Evelyn Gordon in Commentary magazine thinks that the West are obsessed with Israel and that is blinding them to what is happening in Iran:

'Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be laughing his head off. As Abe noted yesterday, the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report unveiled evidence that Iran has been working on technology to arm its missiles with nuclear warheads. It also disclosed evidence of Tehran’s work “on a highly sophisticated nuclear triggering technology that experts said could be used for only one purpose: setting off a nuclear weapon.” If a smoking gun were needed, this is it.

Yet the “international community” hasn’t uttered a peep about the report. It’s too busy obsessing over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict instead.

Two days after the report’s publication, the G8 met in Deauville. Its concluding statement devoted six paragraphs to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, notable for both their specificity (“we express our strong support for the vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace outlined by President Obama on May 19, 2011”) and their urgency (“The time to resume the Peace Process is now.”)

In contrast, Iran’s nukes merited exactly one content-free paragraph:

We note with deep concern the recent report by the IAEA which underlines that Iran is not implementing a number of its obligations, that areas of concern remain regarding possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear programme and that the Agency is therefore unable to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities. . . . We regret that while Iran finally met twice with China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union High Representative, following their intensive diplomatic efforts and the adoption of measures in UNSCR 1929, it was not possible to reach any substantive result, Iran having not yet entered into a genuine dialogue without preconditions. Depending on Iran’s actions, we will determine the need for additional measures in line with the dual-track approach.

Translation: At some unspecified future time, the G8 may—but then again it may not—decide on some unspecified new measures against Iran. But there’s no hurry, because it still hasn’t even concluded that Iran is pursuing nukes. The G8 is merely “unable to conclude” the opposite.'

They are right but don't expect any change in Western policy; the anti-Israel crown have all but succeeded in turning Israel, the only democratic, pluralistic society in the Middle East, into a pariah state whilst the vile theocracies that surround it are given every break.