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Ha’aretz reports on the latest from Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Thursday that a prisoner swap with Israel was being considered by his government but that “nothing has materialized.”

Siniora said Lebanon was “continuing the contacts” with Israel about a possible swap in which two Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted by Hezbollah would be released in exchange for all Lebanese detainees in Israeli jails.

“The matter is being looked after,” Siniora told reporters in Stockholm. “There is nothing really that has materialized so this matter is going to be of considerable interest by the Lebanese government.”

So Lebanon is basically admitting that it is responsible for the kidnapping of our soldiers.

What I want to know is:

Sometimes a dog with its leg on the couch is really only a dog with its leg on the couch.

Or so they would have us believe.

Tim Blair rips Martin Chulov of The Australian (who covered the Red Cross ambulance story and rejected claims that it was a hoax) a new one. Bigger than the hole in the ambulance’s roof, in fact.

The sequel, called “The Hebrew Hammer 2: Hammer vs. Hitler,” depicts a very drunk Mel Gibson spilling out of Moonshadows, two blondes on each arm and a bottle of Irish whiskey in hand. Gibson then obnoxiously berates the valets, leaps into his Lexus and speeds off, screaming obscenities about the Jews. Apprehended by a policeman down the road from Moonshadows, Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade is cut short when the cop — “The Hebrew Hammer” — puts a bullet in Gibson’s head, spraying a bloody Star of David onto the windshield of his Lexus.

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Kesselman, in an interview with TMZ, explained his unorthodox-but-still-Orthodox script this way: “Young Jews love ‘The Hebrew Hammer.’ I think if Mel wants to truly extend an olive branch to the Jewish Community as a whole, his on-screen death would go a long way in accomplishing that goal.”

A tug-of-war has erupted over Kesselman’s sequel. Insiders tell TMZ the pitch has sparked interest from Hollywood execs, in no small measure because of its hilarious-but-controversial opening scene.

In the new film, written by director John Kesselman, “The Hebrew Hammer” is now married and enjoying the good life in suburbia. But the Hammer is forced to dust off his pimpy, black leather couture to confront a new menace: A time-traveling Hitler, intent on altering key moments in Jewish history — to the detriment of the Jews.

“You wanna know something? I actually like Bush…In some ways, I’m the George W Bush of hip hop - nobody likes me, but I’m still gonna run it for the next four years.”

“(The president) is incredible… A gangsta. I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him.”

On this week’s show, I

make my triumphant return to podcasting after a 6-week hiatus by talking about our trip to California, round 1 of the Lebanon war, and the Wikipedia experiment.

And

don’t forget: If you

are an

Israellycool Podcast listener, please

stick a pin in my Podcast Frappr map.

US civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson meets Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal…

Mashaal: “I wouldn’t be picking my nose if I were you. Don’t you know that is the reason behind Mahmoud’s ‘condition’?”

A Lebanese woman walks past the rubble in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, that was heavily attacked by Israeli bombardment during the 34-day long Hezbollah-Israel war. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)

Hezbollah legislator Ali Ammar, right, gestures towards damaged buildings as Iran’s vice president Ali Saeedlou, left, visits an area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, which was repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces in the 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006.

As I suspected, no sooner had one of you written a Wikipedia article on Israellycool, that someone else has proposed it be deleted. The reason?

It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:

    Non-notable blog

If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason. To avoid confusion, it helps to explain why you object to the deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, it should not be replaced.

The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for five days (This template was added: 29 August 2006).

If you created the article, please don’t take offense. Instead, consider improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion policy.

[I was hoping they would try to delete the article on these grounds, since they should be the easiest to refute].

You know what you have to do.*

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Update: The deletion notice has disappeared..for now. I am not too familiar with Wikipedia, but assume it disappeared automatically after more information was input in the article.

* improve the entry, and contest the deletion

“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin”

Harris’ campaign released a statement Saturday saying she had been “speaking to a Christian audience, addressing a common misperception that people of faith should not be actively involved in government.”

 

The comments reflected “her deep grounding in Judeo-Christian values,” the statement said, adding that Harris had previously supported pro-Israel legislation and legislation recognizing the Holocaust.

Fundraising has lagged, frustrated campaign workers have defected in droves and the issues have been overshadowed by news of her dealings with a corrupt defense contractor who gave her $32,000 in illegal campaign contributions.