Weekend Reading

Tomorrow I'm headed to the rally where Jerusalem Bus # 19 will be on display. I promise to report back about it. In the meantime, here's a bit of interesting reading.

Intelligence squelched
By Melanie Phillips
"I had the misfortune to take part in a high-profile and packed debate in London in the 'Intelligence Squared' series. The motion was 'Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews'. The motion was proposed by three Jews..."

[snip]

"This sport of Jew-baiting has now become the vogue among the British media, which uses Jews to unleash the most blatant untruths and vicious lies and libels about Israel so that the media can disavow any anti-Jewish prejudice, on the grounds that Jews cannot be anti-Jew. Alas, would that this were so."

Read the whole article here.

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Hat tip to Naomi Ragen for this one, which shows yet another reason to find the UN worse than neutral -- but actually helpful towards terror:

Despite Israeli Alerts, U.N. Transfers Thousands to Hamas Affiliates
By Benny Avni - Special to the Sun
UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations agency transferred thousands of dollars to a Palestinian Arab charity affiliated with terrorism long after Israel warned of the terror connection, though the U.N. publicly claimed payments to the organization had stopped. Read more here.