A new scandal: Kadima’s faction chief Haim Ramon was overheard talking with Palestinian negotiator Erekat. Ramon advised him on how to confront Netanyahu during the peace negotiations. Ramon often used we when speaking about Kadima and Fatah.

Surely no charges of high treason will be filed against Ramon.

The Arab league endorsed Fatah’s direct negotiations with Israel, leaving the decision on timing to Abbas. In plain English, they allowed him to negotiate with Israel, but did not order him to do so.

Obama, the EU’s leaders, and Netanyahu are all pushing Abbas for direct talks. It is unlikely that all of them are stupid and do not realize the futility of talks without preconditions.

Perhaps they need a good PR victory with the Arabs before attacking Iran.

The Ethiopian government appealed to its Israeli colleagues to stop the immigration of fake Jews from the Falash Mura tribes. The Ethiopians assert, very sensibly, that the process is open-ended and that there will never be shortage of Ethiopians who pose as Jews.

The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics has announced a decline in temporary workers’ immigration. The number of illegal workers currently in the country is estimated at 200,000.

The report does not include 40,000 African illegals and some 200–250,000 illegal Palestinian workers.

A Bedouin, driving without a license, hit and badly injured a three-year-old boy in Carmiel. Every year, Arabs are involved in thousands of car accidents with Jews, and they often cause them deliberately.

Nothing much happened after Wikileaks published documents on the US involvement in Afghanistan. Many of the cases detailed in the leaks technically amount to war crimes: careless attacks with civilians casualties, extrajudicial targeting of less-than-certain-terrorists, and the condoning of outrageous crimes by coalition partners.

Still, Muslims did not start pouring money into Afghanistan. They did not condemn the United States. The UNSC did not meet to discuss the normal wartime behavior which the liberals had declared criminal.

This attitude contrasts markedly with Muslim hysterics over Israel’s occasional killing of a few Arabs, or with the support extended to Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. In the last case, America actively promoted the Afghani cause. In the first case, America provokes the Arabs by condoning their verbal and military attacks on Israel (Fatah receives American aid despite continual acts of terrorism against Jews). If the United States had supported Israel unequivocally, the Arabs would have been as indifferent to our operations in Gaza and the West Bank as they are toward Afghanistan.