Russia symbolically slapped Georgia’s face by “removing abandoned weapons” from the Georgian border town of Gori. In plain words, Russian army confiscated Georgian weapons as if Georgians were petty criminals. In the PR terms, the Russian move was just great.
Bush, Rice screamed at Russia for violating Georgian sovereignty. Rice is a professed expert on Russia, though her relevant essays are nonsensical. She wants to test her skills, and continuously irritates Russia - now with the unwarranted support of Georgia. In this round, Russia quickly and efficiently defused humanitarian crisis and repelled Georgian barbaric aggression against civilians in Osetia.
On other hand, Georgia is of the same stock as Vietnam and Afghanistan. It doesn’t matter that Russia is right, but its imperial ambitions must be curtailed and expansion stopped by peripheral wars. US-sponsored conflict in Georgia might stem Russian expansionism. Limited supply of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons would allow Georgia to stop the untrained and outdated Russian army.

An official in Sarel IDF volunteer program revealed that 14 years ago Olmert requested him to cover his $2,000 expense for traveling to New York and speaking at the organization’s fund raiser.

for participating in the very financial irregularities he had accused Olmert of. Now that Talansky’s testimony against Olmert becomes self-incriminatory, Talansky refused coming to Israel for cross-examination.
It’s not yet clear who’s behind the FBI investigation. Olmert profits because Talansky’s refusal to testify hurts his credibility as a witness against Olmert. The prime minister’s leftist adversaries also profit from the FBI thing because Talansky’s cross-examination by Olmert’s lawyers would likely devastate his credibility, as well.

Foreign Ministry announced that Jerusalem’s “Russian Compound,” a landmark property, will be transferred to Putin’s regime in the coming weeks. Israeli government accepted Putin’s clique as legitimate heir to a nineteenth-century Russian Imperial Society which bought the land plot.
The government decision represents a temporary peak of idiocy and a dangerous precedent. If Russians can claim a property abandoned for a century, how come Arabs cannot claim the properties they were forced from just sixty years ago? Various Christian foundations have even stronger legal claims to numerous properties in Jerusalem.
In the early nineteenth century, very few houses and no land plots in the Jewish Quarter belonged to Jews, all of them had Muslim owners - shall we return them, too?
Why doesn’t the Knesset exile itself from its own building which is constructed on the Orthodox Chrurch’s private land plot?

The demented Israeli Ministry of Defense decided to abandon distribution of atropine syringes along with gas masks because of the “high cost.” We don’t know what’s the purchase price including the kickbacks, but on the open market 10ml syringes pre-filled with atropine cost below $1 wholesale. Atropine’s lifetime is about five years, so the protection cost about 20 cents per year.
Atropine is absolutely necessary during gas attacks on Israel because much of the population is not drilled to put on the masks properly or fast.

The unanimous resolution calls on Ahmadinejad to fire his relative, a Minister of Tourism, for saying that Iranians are everyone’s friends, even of Israelis.

Israel sentenced four Jordanian Arabs to life (?) in prison for murdering Israelis in 1990. As a goodwill gesture to Jordan, Olmert transferred the murderers to Jordan for serving their jail sentences in friendly conditions. Under the pressure from local politicians and NGOs, Jordan will release the four murderers next week.