BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

So many other bloggers are doing a much, much better job of covering the current Middle East situation better than me. But suffice it to say I am sick sick sick of hearing what "horrible" people the Israelis are for PROTECTING THEMSELVES, AND THEIR PEOPLE - and for taking DECISIVE ACTION against terrorists who WANT THEM DEAD. Answer the clue phone, media. You're being used. Again. FROM THE AEGEAN STABLES: Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days, followed by an orgy of Pallywood photography, amplified by a compliant Western media, and even greater fury in the streets of the Muslim and Western world. It’s in the Hamas playbook… and will be until the media gets sober. Here’s the background, and the obscenity that will probably be played. Barry Rubin has laid out the various endgames open to Hamas, and how, when all else fails, it’s the media reserves you draw on to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. ...

TRYING TO REASON WITH THEM, VIA BLOG I've been blogging over 4 years now and only in the last 6 months are so have I been out from under a repressing relationship to feel free to talk politics, among other things. I am alway's shocked when I see how many people do read my humble blog here. My other blog has had well over 200,000 hits - which is sad that people have to be looking up information on abuse that much. That said, looks like someone is trying the new voice of the people - blogging - to reach out to Muslims. Personally I think the Islamofascists are too brainwashed to get the critical thinking and too scared of retribution to appreciate what this guy is trying to do. At State Dept., Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Walid Jawad was tired of all the chatter on Middle Eastern blogs and Internet forums in praise of gory attacks carried out by the “noble resistance” in Iraq. So Mr. Jawad, one of two Arabic-speaking members of what the State Departmen...