VIA: I am not aware of any individual who is truly educated on the Christian scriptures who believes that the God of Christianity and Allah are the same entity.

artisanal 'ette - thanks for that link about Levin on the Obama-Netenyahu call. I was going to say that on the last thread, but it was dead. So, glad you reposted it.

Thanks for all the Friday goodies, Pete. Quite a feast.

Let's see what I can extract from the ol' blog-heap o'links… ah!

I cannot imagine that Obama's involvement in anti-Bibi politics would have any effect other than the strengthening of sympathy for Likud.

Well, here's "Tough," by Arlene from Israel on Noisy Room. She quotes Psaki more extensively and has the link to the government statement.<

Good afternoon, PoliNationals. I've got 'way too many tabs open on this browser, but few of the pages are the kind I usually think to post here. Let's see if I can clear out a few…

My understanding is, approval of the IDF's request for restocking is rote in such requests; approval by higher-ups has never been necessary. Thus has it always been. Until now.

"We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed. Second [interceptor]. It missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this point we had just four seconds until the missile lands.

You guys on gassing the tunnels again!

"napalm" ... "hydrogen" ... 'Halon"...

But Zyclon (sp?) would probably be bad "optics"...

Sorry. Not to compare.

Via Drudge, Blaze article on Israel threatening Pres Clinton with Monica tapes (which tapes apparently the whole spy world had), many paragraphs down, this amusement:

Laurie David's Cervix: "'...Iron Dome's ability to protect Israelis from periodic rocket attacks so far will never remove the strife and discontent that has produced the motivation to ruthlessly fi