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In protest, after protest, after protest we are told that Israel is committing genocide.
A commentator at Israellycool nails it:
Here, I’ll lift Bruce’s comment since it is a pearler:
Number of Palestinian Arabs in 1948 = 1,308,00.
Number of Palestinian Arabs in 2008 = 10,574,521.
Israeli attempted genocide of Palestinian Arabs over 60 years = EPIC FAIL!
It sort of reminds me of the suffering Gitmo prisoners gaining weight story.
The ground war in Gaza is a very risky move for Israel.
Unless Hamas can actually be destroyed on the ground and unless there is intelligence that can allow them to find them I can’t see how a sustained ground war will help.
One might go in and destroy the tunnels and the infrastructure of terror to make things complicated for Hamas and then pull out but I can’t see anything sustained. If the incursion is too brief however then it has the potential to turn into the 7 days when McClellan won 6 of seven battles but treated them as defeats or Tet which was a military disaster for North Vietnam but was portrayed as a defeat for the US.
The wild card here is Fatah. If they are actually giving underground support to Israel in this offensive then Hamas is in trouble. Of course it is not unlikely that if or when Hamas is neutralized Fatah will go back to their normal support of their own terror objectives but we will see.
The north is still the wild card. If we see strikes from Lebanon, and I’m very surprised we haven’t already the whole game will change in a hurry.
It was not long ago that Katrina Vanden Heuvel would be too radical for a roundtable seat at a mainstream show like This week. Today I see her with Cokie Roberts and George Will and John Karl. The fact that a person as radical as her has been mainstreamed suggests how far to the left the Democratic Party is or perhaps how significant the radical left side of the Democratic coalition has become.
It’s one of the many reasons why I am no longer a part of it.
UPDATE: When the transcript goes up and listen to her pablum concerning Gaza. It is absolutely astounding.
I don’t care how legal pot has become, this will be a sad day for Boston if there is anything to this:
Tim Wakefield’s name is conspicuously absent from today’s story on Brad Penny by Amalie Benjamin. Is this just an oversight?.
Via this link at Baseball Musings. The actual globe story is here.
Tim Wakefield is one of the most effective and useful pitchers in baseball. He has been both an innings magnet and a versatile player. He has both closed and started and the Knuckle ball means that he can keep it up for many more years without strain.
He has a little bit of a bat (pretty good for a pitcher) and has experience in post season that even predated his Red Sox service. Pittsburgh release of him in the 1993 season after one poor year was one of the most foolish moves in a franchise that has earned it place in what was once called the 2nd division.
In addition he is the longest serving player on the team. To give you an idea look at the Sox Team in 1995 his first year. Clemens , Willie McGee, Mo Vaughn, Rick Aguilera and a Rookie Jeff Suppan. Cripes he was on a Red Sox team with Greg Maddux older brother Mike.
At his age he would not be an expensive pitcher and with the youth on the Sox staff an experienced player (His first playoff appearance was in 1992!). It would be very foolish for the Sox to cast him aside.
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