Over at Talking Squid, Chris Lawson has come up with a flow chart to determine whether criticism of Jews and/or Israel is anti-Semitic or not. Since its seems pretty useful, and since Lawson says “Anyone else is also free to use it as they please,” I’m including it here.
My main computer is still in the shop, so here’s another roundup of brief updates…
My copy of Michael Totten’s The Road to Fatima Gate came in today. Since I’m also an insane book collector (and since he does good work), I got an autographed copy. (One book collector gripe, Michael: If you’re going to send out autographed first editions in a USPS Priority mailing envelope, you should really use bubble wrap to protect it. Signed, a guy who has a business selling collectible books on the side.)
Also, since I can’t resist a good meme, here’s a picture of the book in the now-traditional style (click to embiggen):
Regular readers will no doubt recognize the gun.
Another week, another Jihad roundup. I’m not sure I can keep up…
(Hat tips: JihadWatch, Instapundit, Michael Totten, Creeping Sharia.)
All eyes on Libya this week, but, as usual, there’s a lot more Jihad-related news from around the world:
(Hat tips: JihadWatch, Stratfor, Michael Totten, Instapundit)
Things have been relatively quiet on the Jihad front this week, but there’s always something happening:
(Hat tips: JihadWatch, Fark, Instapundit, Michael Totten, and the usual suspects.)
I saw this dandy Michael Totten piece on Israeli military preparation (including building an entire town for training exercises) a few weeks ago, and meant to write something about it, but got busy with other things.
Being a curious sort, I went searching for that training center on Google maps, and think it might be at 31.163869, 34.532279; you may have to zoom out or scroll south and to the west to see it, since Google Maps centers on the nearest road. (I don’t think anything visible on Google Maps is a military secret, and I doubt anyone in Hamas reads my blog anyway.)
However, even more interesting is the structure due south of it at 31.139718, 34.531937:
There are a lot of structures in the Nagev with a sort of circular berm around them, and I guess those are just oases or something equally benign. But the interesting thing about this one is the big X across the top of it. what is that? Storage facility? Secret silo? For all I know it could be a hazardous waste dump.
But given the Big X, I’m guessing this is the entrance for Professor Charles Francis Xavier’s secret Israeli academy for mutants…
It would be great if the current unrest lead to a free, democratic government in Egypt. However, it is just as likely that events will lead to widespread Islamization of regional governments and another Arab-Israeli war.
It’s Friday! I’m lazy! LinkSwarm!
Another week, another roundup of the World of jihad: