Filipino Monkey

This was supposed to be posted exactly one week ago, but alas - it was lost in transit... It should be noted that since last Tuesday, the radio transmission was allegedly sent by "a local heckler known as the 'Filipino Monkey'." You just can't make this stuff up:

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/01/13/44154.html
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January 8, 2008

I did not want to feel as though it was absolutely necessary to discuss these events, but Iran is very unfortunately back in the news again. Yesterday bore reports that Palestinian militant groups are now employing longer range missiles against Israel courtesy of none other than Iran. That did not seem to merit much a response from Prime Minister Olmert so I did not concern myself too much with this. Now apparently, Iranian speedboats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps confronted US Navy warships on Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz as they attempted to enter the Persian Gulf. I wish I did not have to approach this story with such skepticism, but at this point in time the legitimacy of almost every event that transpires must be questioned. In the midst of all the excitement surrounding the 2008 election cycle, foreign affairs must not be overlooked, as tempting as doing so might be. This administration has merely a year left to carry out whatever evil misdeeds it stills feels as though are necessary, which should be all the more reason to keep an extremely close eye on it. One matter to consider (as Iranian news agency FARS already has) is the timing of this incident, as ‘President’ Bush will soon be touring the region “encouraging Middle East talks and… conveying a message that Iran continues to pose a serious threat.” The Iranian government attempted to pass off this nearly detrimental event as the kind that happens all the time, but clearly that is not the case. Perhaps ‘President’ Mahmoud Ahmadinej[ih]ad is likewise aware of Bush’s upcoming term limit and desperately seeks to start the war both leaders so desperately desire while both are still around to perpetrate it.

Accountability, Israeli Style

I started writing this a few days ago, so do forgive me for my tardiness!

I suppose it is not such a bad thing after all that the US has gone so far out of its way to preserve and sustain the Israeli state, for at this point in time we should be looking to them regarding how to properly execute a democratic state.

Case in point: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, rushes head on into a clash with Hezbollah militants last summer and is likewise accused of badly mishandling this brief, yet diplomatically damaging war. Sound at all familiar? At least their war was a relatively short one.

So apparently in real democracies, if your [in our case (s)]elected leader screws up so horribly in conducting a war, an investigation must be carried out in order to find out what exactly went wrong; the citizens, but more importantly their elected officials will not whisper about the possibility, but demand that the leader in question resign or at the very, very least be held responsible!

That’s obviously one helluva run-on sentence, but I think it gets the point across... Maybe 'accountability' has a more significant meaning when translated into Hebrew.