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4:41 PM
Olmert and Abbas are talking

Where did this come from? Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas are holding talks:

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held their first formal talks on Saturday and agreed to try to revive peace negotiations that collapsed in 2000, officials said.

Olmert told Abbas he would unfreeze $100 million in withheld tax funds and remove some checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, but no breakthroughs were made on freeing Palestinian prisoners or extending a shaky Gaza ceasefire to the West Bank, they said.

And of course, no "gestures" were made by Abbas, either... but we wouldn't expect Al-Reuters to point that out.

Who was it who said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again, expecting different results?

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4:22 PM
U.N. wags finger, Iran shrugs

Sometimes, Iran really reminds me of a child seeking attention. After incessant posturing, threats, a proxy war waged against Israel via Hezbollah, a Holocaust-denial conference, and (by the way) years of nuclear weapons' development on the part of Iran, the U.N. finally bothered to take notice. Today's vote to impose sanctions on Iran by the U.N. Security Council was predictably greeted with a shrug on the part of the rogue state:

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said after the vote that the country's nuclear program wouldn't be affected.

The ``new resolution will not be an obstacle in the way of Iran's nuclear progress,'' the ministry said in a statement published by the state-run Fars news agency. ``The Iranian nation, by relying on the national abilities and within the framework of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its undeniable rights, will continue its program.''

Of course, they're probably right; the sanctions can be added to a very long list of too-late and utterly toothless decisions made by the United Nations. I mean, sure, it's nice to see them doing something, but is there anyone left in the world that really believes that it will make a difference?

There's only one way to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, and Israel is already preparing for this last resort. But while most are hoping it never comes to that, few actually believe that a U.N. resolution can do anything to discourage Iran.

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9:47 AM
It's snowing!

Woohoo!

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