Middle East, business almost as usual

A Hezbollah terrorist was killed by a bomb in his car in Beirut. The bomb was allegedly installed by sunni terrorists. I like this self-service approach to war on terrorism, but to avoid collateral damage I call on all terrorists to use knives on other terrorists.

In hopefully unrelated but similar news Yassir Arafat has managed to appoint two different guys as the Palestinian security chief. One of them just happens to be Arafat's cousin. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades expressed their dissatisfaction with the appointment of the cousin by burning down offices of the Palestinian intelligence services. Hmm, maybe it's time for me to believe that Arafat really does not control those assholes, or al least not all the time?

With all the terrorists fighting among themselves Ariel Sharon was left to make his own trouble for himself, which he promptly did. In a speech addressed to visiting French Jewish community leaders Sharon said that all the French Jews should move from France to Israel immediately due to the number of anitsemitic attacks in France and the number of Moslems there. Sharon, face it, man: Israel currently leads the Western world in the number of antisemitic attacks per Jew, and also has a higher Moslem population than France. (Although of course I am not suggesting that the size of the Moslem population can in any way be related to the number of antisemitic attacks. Perish the thought! Sharon, however, seems to think so.) The French Jews would be making a change for the worse. Anyway, French Jewish community leaders told Sharon to stuff it where the sun don't shine, and so did the French government.