Open Threads

From various sites:

Saudi Arabia Donates $1,355,000 to PLO

Saudi Arabia abstains from freezing certain bank accounts

Saudi Arabia rejects western pressures to change the curricula

Saudi Arabia bans relations with a Cypriot company ” after it was proven it had exported commodities of an Israeli origin to the Arab states.”

Saudi Arabia completes contribution to Arab funds for Palestinians– “The Saudi contribution to the Intifada fund ($ 50 million) will help extend assistance to the families of martyrs and finance the education of children.”

Iran-Saudi Arabia Sign 10-Point Agreement on bilateral relations

I am getting tired of this, so here are some anti-Israeli and anti- U.S. cartoons here, here, here, here, and here. This way, illiterates can hate too.

And this gem. Don’t worry folks, Norm Mineta is on your side.

The cartoonist did have cartoons mocking Araft, but this type appeared to me at least to be most prevalent.

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Mark Steyn has another brilliant work, and he slams Jacob Weisberg for the same column that gave me fits. Check it out here.

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Ken Layne has issued a blog mobilization. I responded, and responded incorrectly. Instead of posting the links on MY page, I forwarded them to him. I can read, really I can.

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Two new links added, to Steve Den Beste’ s USS Clueless and to James Lileks. I do not know how I forgot to put those up, as they are two of the best. Not mentioning them on your blog list and having others up is like being able to name Jose Carreras and then drawing a blank on Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Check them out…

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Andrew Sullivan’s new peice, The AWOL President, is his usual brilliance.

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Forget Siskel and Ebert’s thumbs up/thumbs down rating system. Sgt. Stryker gives Ted Rall the middle finger for his latest column.

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Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has the new definition of terrorism, as defined by rogue nations and terrorists. Yep. You guessed it. Terrorism is what the Jews do to Palestinians. It is so frightenly predictable that I can not even laugh at their ignorance.

One reader felt the need to comment to Charles’s post.

Terror and violence are profitable business for USA. Americans own over 250 million guns in their homes, 2 million detainees in prisons in the land of the “Free”, one out of three women raped,high schoolshooting has become as popular as a football game,America is the largest exporter of arms,the Fed has toppled over 20 regimes worldwide.These are just few examples of America the leader of Democracy!

posted by Abdelmonem Jamil Addas @ 1/10/2002 08:30PM PST

The same old litany of fuzzy logic, misapplication of statistics, misunderstanding of everything American: essentially, everything buffoons like Ted Rall and Noam Chomsky want the Arab Street to think about the United States. Congrats Noam and Ted, you have found Apt Pupils.

The most annoying part of the blather from Abdelmonem is the 2 million detainees blurb. We call them criminals, and the reason we have this many in jail is because we refuse to enforce absurd religious law. I guess if we did have the Sharia here, the number of prisoners (not detainees) would be smaller. When you are in the habit of routinely chopping off appendages (important ones, like heads) for high crimes like sexual preference, logic says that there would be fewer people in jail. Instead, they would be dead.

More bombing, less patience, and I am with Damian Penny. Saudi Arabia is the source of this problem.

One wonders if Mr. Addas would feel as free to post his banter in the Taliban controlled Afghanistan press, if it were directed against that regime. I think not.

How are we supposed to take these people seriously, other than to treat them as a serious threat?

Charles Johnson at Little GreenPost + Comments