Joke of the day:

Meanwhile, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said his country would urge Israel to be flexible in talks for Shalit’s release.

In an interview with Al-Arabiya Saturday night, Aboul-Gheit said, “We are trying to influence Israel’s position, and to stress that Israel should not go overboard in its demands and that it must pay the required price.”

Hamas are demanding hundreds upon hundreds of prisoners and terrorists for the release of one young man, and it is Israel that is “going overboard with its demands”?

Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)

8:12PM: Ma’an News reports:

Rights groups and the Palestinian Authority (PA) accused the Hamas-backed government in Gaza of barring Palestinian patients from leaving the territory for medical treatment on Monday.

The Health Ministry in the de facto government in Gaza denied the claims, saying that they allowed ambulances to leave Gaza through the Erez crossing point en route to hospitals in Jerusalem and Israel.

The Health Ministry in the Ramallah government said that four of the patients in question were in a life-threatening situation as a result of the ban. The PA in Ramallah had coordinated their transfer with the Israeli government.

Dr Omar An-Nasser, the head of public relations in the Ramallah ministry told Ma’an, “The Israeli side informed us that the Erez crossing will be closed at 4:00 pm and after that the ambulances won’t be able to cross. This threatens the lives of the patients inside the ambulances.”

Notice how Hamas has changed its tune. As I mentioned in my 5:55AM update, Hamas denied palestinian swine flu patients were being transferred to hospitals in Israel. Now we see Hamas claiming they are not preventing palestinian swine flu patients from being transferred to hospitals in Israel.

4:20PM: Anti-Israel terror enabler Lauren Booth is up to her old tricks.

12:00PM: Zionist Death TweetsTM?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged the West to use the social “power of the Internet” to counter the Iranian threat and the Islamic regime’s crackdown on its own opposition.

In an address to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s concern over Iran’s contentious nuclear program.

The prime minister declared that Iran posed a plethora of threats to the world as well as to its own people, including its “violent elections, the discovery of the nuclear facility in Qom, its deception of the international community and preventing its nation’s freedom of information through the Internet.”

“Iran is silencing all sources of information,” said Netanyahu. “Using the power of the Internet and of Twitter against the Iranian regime is a tremendous thing that the United States can do.”

Where has Netanyahu been? Doesn’t he know that individuals have been using the Internet and Twitter in such a way well before he likely knew what Twitter was?

And why does he think this is something only the US can do? The point is anyone with access to the Internet can utilize these tools.

7:38AM: Israel’s Foreign Ministry Director-General reportedly met late last week with UNIFIL commander Maj.-Gen. Claudio Graziano to discuss the terms of a possible Israeli withdrawal from the northern part of Ghajar, a village on the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria, which has for decades been cited as an obstacle preventing peace.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that even if we withdraw from this village, Hizbullah will continue to fire rockets into Israel, and Lebanon will not go out of their way to sign a peace agreement with Israel.

6:08AM: A short video on some Israeli contributions to the world.

6:04AM: “Alpha, you better stop smoking ganja.”

6:02AM: One of Reuters’ images of the year:

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 MEA – A member of the Palestinian security forces (R) kicks a Palestinian stone-thrower, protesting Israel’s offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 8, 2009.

Funny, but I don’t seem to recall any “pro-palestinian activists” speaking out against this. I guess they were too busy calling for the destruction of Israel.

5:55AM: Fact 1: Some palestinians speak of a benefit of Israel’s restriction on the flow of people to and from Gaza.

Health workers in the Gaza Strip announced the first death and first cases of H1N1 swine flu on Sunday, worrying Palestinians who had said that Israel’s blockade of the territory was keeping the virus at bay.

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The ministry said the five were diagnosed with H1N1 on Saturday. Health workers said it appeared to have been kept out of Gaza until now due to restrictions that limit the flow of people as well as goods into the enclave, which is governed by Hamas.

Fact 2: Israel has been treating Gazans diagnosed with H1N1 swine flu.

The Health Ministry and medical workers said five people diagnosed with H1N1 on Saturday were transferred to Israel for treatment and a sixth, female patient suffering underlying health problems died in the territory run by Hamas Islamists.

Fact 3: Israel does not limit shipments of medical supplies into Gaza, and palestinians blame the Fatah-Hamas infighting for the shortage of some, including the swine flu vaccine.

Some medicines are in short supply, but Israel insists it does not limit shipment of medical supplies. Instead, Palestinians say the rivalry between Hamas and Abbas’ Palestinian Authority could be to blame.The Palestinian Authority is responsible for sending medicines to Gaza, but officials there way Abbas’ government routinely keeps Gaza in short supply.

One key shortage is swine flu vaccine.

Fact 4: Hamas cannot handle the truth.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza denied reports on Sunday that six patients diagnosed with H1N1 swine flu were transferred to Israel for treatment.

Deputy Minister of Health Hasan Khalaf told Ma’an, “These reports are totally untrue.”

“The cases that were said to be transferred to Israel are in Gaza and receiving the necessary treatment.”

He characterized the reports as “[lies] aiming at arousing confusion.”

Khalaf also said the Health Ministry is implementing a comprehensive plan to combat swine flu.

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