Fatah has reportedly made a strategic decision to declare a third intifada against Israel, thus implementing a decision made during its recent sixth convention.

This intifada is supposedly to be in the form of “unarmed resistance”, in order to garner more sympathy for their cause, as well as to embarrass the Israeli government (not because murder is immoral).

While Israelis endeavor to repair bones, palestinians endeavor to break them. Isreallycool

• “Moderate” Abbas taunts Hamas as being too peaceful
• MEMRI: Palestinian Officials Threaten to Renew Armed Struggle, Launch Third Intifada
• Good news Friday: Israeli breakthrough in bone repair

Reuters – A suicide bomber in southwestern Afghanistan killed 17 people Friday, and an Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul but five of his bodyguards were killed, officials said.More than 20 killed in separate Afghan blasts (Reuters)

The Elder of Zion:

A case study in news media incompetence

Incredibly, and incompetently, Fox News mischaracterizes Obama’s statement in its own article about the interview:

Obama Calls Israeli Settlement Building in East Jerusalem ‘Dangerous’

President Obama on Wednesday called it “dangerous” that Israel plans to add 900 new apartments to an existing Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem — an area Palestinians hope to claim as their capital absent a peace agreement with Israel.

From here, the media plays the old children’s game of “telephone” and compounds the mistake, as AFP reported:

Israel’s decision to press ahead with the construction of new settlements in occupied east Jerusalem could be “very dangerous,” US President Barack Obama said Wednesday in an interview with Fox News.

No, the decision wasn’t “very dangerous,” the potential reaction is what is dangerous. Adding houses to existing Jewish neighborhoods is not the danger – the Arab reaction could be.

Just like publishing a cartoon about Mohammed isn’t “dangerous” but the potential backlash by thin-skinned and insecure Muslims is.