“San Francisco voters will be asked to decide whether to name a city sewage plant in honor of President Bush, after a satiric measure qualified for the November ballot.” (Read more from sfgate.com)

I love it! Resist!

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That about sums it up.

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-Israel fears scathing U.S. report on its West Bank policies. I’ll be very surprised if this report gets any press in the U.S.

-UN report: At 45%, Gaza unemployment is highest in the world.

-US Revokes Visas for Gaza Fulbright Students.

-Settler arrested in failed rocket attack on Palestinian town “Police said Sunday they have arrested a settler suspected of involvement in a failed rocket attack on a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that police arrested Gilad Herman, a student at a Jewish seminary in the settlement of Yitzhar.”

-U.S. protests eviction of Arab family from East Jerusalem home Like many Palestinians, the Al-Kurds are now multiple-order refugees. They were kicked out of West Jerusalem in 1950. Three predictions: 1) The US media will continue to ignore the bureaucratic strangling of Palestinian populations. 2) The US diplomat behind this criticism will be blacklisted and never work in the Middle East again. 3) Whatever little press these stories get will be immediately countered. The issue will be reframed, accuser will become accused, like this.

-West Bank residents face severe water shortage as drought continues

-Olmert: Living with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem means more terror “Whoever thinks its possible to live with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem must take into account that there will be more bulldozers, more tractors, and more cars carrying out [terror] attacks,” Olmert said, referring to two incidents this month in which Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem deliberately plowed bulldozers into passing cars in the capital, causing casualties.” . . . therefore we should ethnically cleanse . . . I mean . . . um . . . terrorism, terrorism, terrorism.

-Israeli soldiers kill 11-year-old terrorist. See the full child-body-count here: rememberthesechildren.com.

-Cartoon: hypocrisy of Obama’s “These Walls Cannot Stand.”

-Pogrom against Palestinians “In some areas, like in the Hebron region, settler attacks have assumed pogrom-like proportions. What is particularly outrageous is that most of these attacks take place in full view of Israeli soldiers who watch passively as heavily armed settlers gang up on helpless Palestinian civilians. The latest acts of savagery included an assault on a Palestinian wedding party and the attempted lynching of an Arab boy near Hebron, an attack on a civilian car near Nablus that caused a massive brain hemorrhage to a 6-year-old girl who is now fighting for her life, beating up and stoning Arab children near Tuwwani in the southern West Bank and setting fire to Palestinian groves and fields in several parts of the occupied territories.”

-Activists try to break the siege of Gaza with sailing boats

“I have now been called antisemitic and intellectually unstable and a whole bunch of other silly things by the folks over at the Commentary blog. They want Time Magazine to fire or silence me. This is happening because I said something that is palpably true, but unspoken in polite society: There is a small group of Jewish neoconservatives who unsuccessfully tried to get Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Saddam Hussein in the 1990s, and then successfully helped provide the intellectual rationale for George Bush to do it in 2003. Their motivations involve a confused conflation of what they think are Israel’s best interests with those of the United States. They are now leading the charge for war with Iran.

Happily, these people represent a very small sliver of the Jewish population in this country. Unhappily, their views have had an impact in the highest reaches of the Bush Administration–and seem to have an influence on John McCain’s campaign as well.

. . . .

I am not going to make the same mistake twice. I don’t think a war with Iran is coming, thank God, but this time I am not going to pull any punches. My voice isn’t very important in the grand scheme of things, but I’m going to do my job–and that means letting you know exactly where I stand and what I believe. I believe there are a small group of Jewish neoconservatives who are pushing for war with Iran because they believe it is in America’s long-term interests and because they believe Israel’s existence is at stake. They are wrong and recent history tells us they are dangerous. They are also bullies and I’m not going to be intimidated by them.”

(Read more from www.time-blog.com’s Joe Klein)