Whose support is he trying to win with that business?

Nah,Bush’s people are too busy trying to cover their tracks as they sneak out of town. They don’t have time to pay attention to anything happening now- too many crimes to hide, future dishonest jobs to get, skeletons to bury.

Or maybe he called George H or the real president- Dick Cheney

Just a wannabe strongman puffing his chest to impress his subjects.  AP failed to report that he ended his speech in Ashkelon by shouting “HANDLIN’ MAH BIDNESS OLMERT STYLE, BITCHEZ!!!” and grabbing his nuts.

I am sure it’s for domestic political consumption. As is the Gaza incursion itself.

Fortunately, the same culture that gives us Olmert also gives us juicy words to describe him.

Putz.

Schmuck.

Fortunately, the same culture that gives us Olmert also gives us juicy words to describe him.

Those words are Yiddish, not Hebrew.

Those words are Yiddish, not Hebrew.

So’s yer Mother!

Um, yeah, instaputz, I know that.  I said “culture.”

I think he was riffing unfortunately on this disputed quote from the past:

Ariel Sharon made an interesting remark to his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, when he said: ”I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about America ... we. the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it.”

This fed into all sorts of anti-Semitic memes that continue to muddy the waters and make discussion of this issue difficult and any sane resolution of this situation impossible.

When even Saudi Arabia reacts like this

Saudi Arabia has denounced Israel for its “racist extermination” war on Palestinians in Gaza, and demanded international action to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the territory.

it makes me ashamed to be a Brit, what with Brown’s craven refusal to pipe up about it.

So’s yer Mother!

See, this is why I never write about Israel.  Inevitably the comments always devolve into trash talk about mothers.  Enough! We will never solve this conflict if we continue to resort to “snaps.”

Drat those quote tags and my ineptitude. I hope you get my drift anyway.

Yet, did I fix it correctly?

Don’t forget chutzpah. Maybe Olmert has been watching Joe the Plumber’s dispatches and mistakenly believes that dickhead speaks for us all.

That’s so true, Kevin.  I’ve learned that I’m a “self-hating Jew” even though I’m only half-Jewish, so in reality half of me is self-hating and the other half is an anti-Semite.

Yet, did I fix it correctly?

Sorry, Kevin, the first close quote tag should go before “This fed ...”

Juan Cole has a wide-ranging analysis here:

The only part of that story that rings true is that Olmert basically told Condi to sit down and shut up; that he wasn’t going to deal with her. I’m sure that wasn’t be the first time.

Bottom line: He feels Olmert’s remarks were intended to shore up his political support in-country

I’d imagine he’s right. I do prefer it when election campaigns don’t rely on genocide.

Hats off to the Israelis and Jewish people elsewhere who’re standing up to and condemning this, having had to spend a fair part of my life resisting my own country’s warmongering.

Yet, did I fix it correctly?

Bingo! Thanks. I’ll try to be more careful in future.

We will never solve this conflict if we continue to resort to “snaps.”

But but but… we’re having a conversation or a dialogue or something! Let the healing begin.

Oh good. Brace yourself for incoming hasbara, Kevin.

Oh good. Brace yourself for incoming hasbara, Kevin.

Heh. You’d be surprised how little traffic one gets from a memeorandum listing.  I think I got more traffic from the Effluence that one time they linked to me and that’s, obviously, not saying a lot.

Speaking of which - slap me with a wet fish, I think they’re out-Stalining Stalin while they sit around in their jammies over there liveblogging Hillary’s hearing:

madamab, on January 13th, 2009 at 1:14 pm Said:

janicen - if you type the letters “h” then “r” then “c” together, Spammy will eat your comment.

It happened to me twice until Myiq explained it to me.

*wanders off in search of beer, muttering “fucking liberals”*

Yeah, when did HRC become offensive? Do they think it stands for “Hillary Really Cackles”?

Those words are Yiddish, not Hebrew.

There’s a difference?

Alan-

I’ve learned that I’m a “self-hating Jew” even though I’m only half-Jewish,

That sort of happened to me.

My father’s side is all German ancestry. My sister visited Germany in the 80’s and met one of our relatives, who also keeps the geneology of the whole fam since 1400 AD to present.

She got a copy of it, then she met some more relatives over there, who were hip berliner anarchist types, they told her she had the revised copy, there was another one that included the jewish names.

She got a copy of that, then by comparing the two we were able to see how many Jews were in the tree, or woodpile, as it were, and there was quite a lot from 1700 on.

We also found out that this story is typical, and there are often revised revised editions that put some of the Jews back in and revise the names of SS types and Nazi Party members.

Suffice to say, I’ve got bloodlines on BOTH sides of the holocaust.

Talk about self hating, no wonder I drink.

Scooter, my problem is similar, though in a much lighter vein. I am mostly Scottish on my dad’s side, mostly Irish on my mom’s side (little bit of English and German in the mix as well). So my dad’s joke was that his kids were in a hell of a fix—half of us wants a drink, the other half hates paying for it.