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Stopping dodgy North Korean freighters: a LOST cause?

Bloggers blew the whistle.

Someone you should know.

Bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble:
North Korea and Syria held high-level talks Friday in Pyongyang, the North’s state media reported, amid suspicions that the two countries might be cooperating on a nuclear weapons program.
The talks took place between Choe Tae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, and Saaeed Eleia Dawood, [...]

Israelly Cool is following developments thoroughly.
More: Fox News’s intrepid Reena Ninan is in Israel and was caught in the crossfire.

So she says on her blog in response to my post yesterday. (I’m “some blogger.”)
Guess she’s changed her mind.
Such a loss. The world is weeping.

Marking Holocaust Memorial Day:
Sirens sounded across Israel on Monday morning, bringing life to a standstill as millions of Israelis observed a moment of silence to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
The two-minute siren at 10 a.m. is an annual tradition marking Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day, which began Sunday evening and ends at [...]

Reena Ninan blogs the commemoration at FoxNews.com.

It’s U.N. man! Circa 1972:

Thanks to reader Giles Babb for sending me this decades-old Oliphant cartoon he clipped from the December 1, 1972, issue of Stars and Stripes.
Babb writes: “You could just as easily run the cartoon in tomorrow’s paper, and no one would know that it had run nearly 34 years earlier.”
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Debbie [...]

Reader Curt C. passes along an informative flash animation map of the Hezbollah terror rocket attacks on Israel. Click for animation:

JPost notes that a missile attack on Tel Aviv remains a real threat.
IDF destroys 2,000 Hez rockets. How many more left to go?

FWIW, the Senate resolution passed this evening. N.Z. Bear has the full text. FoxNews.com:
The Senate approved by voice vote Tuesday a resolution condemning Hezbollah and Hamas and their state sponsors, which include Syria and Iran, and supporting Israel’s exercise of its right to self-defense.
“I applaud my Senate colleagues for their overwhelming support of this resolution, [...]

Statement issued this afternoon:
“We demand first that the Israeli soldiers be returned to Israel healthy, that the attacks on Israel cease, and then naturally for Israel to halt military action,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters.
At least Merkel’s got the priorities right.
Then this from the ABCNews.com report:
Group of Eight leaders on Sunday blamed extremists for [...]

Kate at Small Dead Animals reminds us of Oriana Fallaci’s searing essay from December 2002–which deserves to be reprinted far and wide (update: I’ve added hyperlinks for reference/background).
I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of [...]

Missing
Israel says it will not negotitate with Hamas:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has refused to release any Palestinian prisoners in exchange for information about an abducted Israeli soldier.
He was responding to a demand from three militant groups that women and youths be freed from Israeli jails in return for news on Gilad Shalit.
Those making the [...]

Via Paul Mirengoff at Power Line, more bad news:
We’ve been unhappy lately with some of President Bush’s appointees. Generally, the problem has been lack of relevant experience and, perhaps, cronyism. Today, though, I want to focus on a Bush appointee who makes me unhappy precisely because of his relevant experience. I’m referring to the [...]

Looks like federal prosecutors are ratcheting up the case against Larry Franklin. Prosecutors are expected to file new charges related to the classified documents allegedly found at Franklin’s West Virginia home, according to the New York Times.

An update on the national security scandal that few seem to care about: According to JTA News, AIPAC is paying for the legal costs incurred by two former AIPAC officials who are suspected of passing classified information they allegedly got from Larry Franklin to Naor Gilon, an Israeli diplomat.
Related entries here.

FBI agents have begun asking reporters about conversations they had with former Department of Defense analyst Larrry Franklin, the New York Times reports:
The interviews by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are starting with four reporters, among them at least one newspaper journalist and others whose work has been published on the Internet, the officials said. [...]

Steve Rosen, recently fired as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy director in the wake of Larry Franklin’s arrest, expects to be indicted for passing classified information to Israel, according to JTA:
Rosen expects that a trial could begin as early as January 2006 and already is preparing for a long defense, according to multiple [...]

John Little at Blogs of War observes that the AP is already rehearsing its teary-eyed eulogy for Yasser Arafat. Not even a mention of Black September, John notes.
Here’s some of the other biographical info they won’t be printing…

Blood-spattered “peace” activism
Arafat’s culture of death
Arafat: Terrorism, Corruption, & Crime

Arafat group sells bombers to Hamas for money, explosives

Arafat’s [...]

The mommy who busted the bomber. Wow. (Via JewishWorldReview.)