I’ll leave it at that.

If you don’t understand why this qualifies for Headline of the Day, I suggest you familarize yourself with the concept of the “Turkey slap.”

The question is did the Jerusalem Post choose this wording on purpose, or are they really so clueless?

I don’t plan on spending too much time on Silverstein’s post, but I did find this part humorous:

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/08/29/larry-derfner-fired-by-jerusalem-post

Forget the Silver Surfer. It's the Silver-Derfner!

On a personal note, I owe Larry an apology.  Recently, a reader informed me that Larry’s remarks about the dissolution of our blogging partnership were featured on a number of right-wing pro-Israel websites.  This angered me as I felt his words were being used to further tarnish my reputation.  Larry didn’t see it that way.  We had words, harsh words.  I want him to know if he reads this that while we may have had, and still have political disagreements (one of the major reasons our project together broke up), that my portion of yesterday’s interchange was wrong, especially given the context, and I hope he’ll accept my apology.

Silverstein apologizing is always funny, but talk of his reputation being tarnished is pure comedy gold!

Meanwhile, I’m sure the JPost will not find this lie by Silverstein humorous:

Around the same time the Jerusalem Post also published an editorial about the failure of multiculturalism and Caroline Glick’s comments relating to the Breivik actions.

And then, while I was driving on Friday morning someone rang me and asked if I’d seen the Jerusalem Post’s “Apology to Norway“. WHAT? Why on earth should a newspaper apologise for its opinions? Ever!

“Your country is a symbol of peace and freedom. In Israel, we followed the events… in Norway and the attack on innocent civilians broke our hearts.

Excuse my language. Bullshit. Norway is a symbol of the total and utter breakdown of society when run by the hard, progressive left in all its brain addled glory. To demand an apology for Barry’s article, which was nothing if not truthful, reminds me of a bunch of Islamic Clerics who’ve just noticed that a four year old on the other side of the world has named their teddy bear “Mohammad”. Whhaaaaa!

But even more astonishing is that the Jerusalem Post bowed down and dhimmitudinaly submitted to this! I have no idea what weight was brought to bear on the editor but I hope it was something serious like threatening the death of his first born. Because if we can’t rely on the editors of our newspapers to stand up for our right to offend (with the truth) what chance have we. Oh, wait, perhaps we have to add the Jerusalem Post into the list of other craven media outlets like all those who refused to print the Mohammad cartoon.

The only honourable thing the editor managed to do was give Barry an unlimited amount of space to respond today. And I can’t wait to see how he’s going to apologise for this one. Perhaps he better start building his own cross because the Norwegians will want him nailed up for this. Barry has doubled down, in my opinion, and is clearer than ever. I urge you to read it all but here are some sizzling highlights.

Former Prime Minister Kare Willoch criticized President Barack Obama for appointing Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff because he was “Jewish.” Nor the author Jostein Gaarder who wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten entitled, “God’s Chosen People” at a time when three Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped by Hizballah and a war was on, describing Judaism as “an archaic national and warlike religion.” Apology?

In 2008, a Norwegian comedian said on national television, “I would like to wish all Norwegian Jews a Merry Christmas – no, what am I saying! You don’t celebrate Christmas, do you!? It was you who crucified Jesus.” Apology? Last year the minister of finance spoke at a largely Islamist-organized anti-Israel rally. Apology? A person who has served as a Foreign Ministry official remarked in 2008 that she occasionally wished the UN would send “precision-guided missiles against selected Israeli targets.” Apology?

Yes, Norway, where is the apology you owe all Jews?

What I wrote in the “Oslo Syndrome” is that people who accept rationales for terrorism and reward those movements politically increase terrorism. Equally, those who accept double standards, slanderous lies (without apology) about themselves in the media of other countries, and the consorting of those countries with groups that want to exterminate them only increase that behavior, too.

And that, my friends, is why Jews better get out of Norway quickly. They will be blamed when the mobs come to kill them. It’s the same old inversion of good and evil, of victim and aggressor and Norway is rushing to it’s own death.

Barry also makes reference to a little known Norwegian politician of Pakistani origin, Samira Munir who was probably “suicided”:

You’ve never heard of Samira Munir and Norway’s establishment has swept her story away. She was a Norwegian politician of Pakistani origin who fought for women’s rights and against sharia law. She was found dead in November 2004, supposedly a suicide but seeming far more likely to have been a terrorist murder. She had received daily death threats by phone and walking down the street. Might this act, whose perpetrators were never punished, indicate that some people think they can commit terrorism, get away with it, and suffer no political damage?

And also this weekend, a man who’ve I’ve met a few times and who’s blogged for many years as Fjordman walked into a police station in Norway to give a statement. He was immediately taken in and treated as a murder suspect! He has never called for anyone to kill anyone, never committed a violent act and is now feeling the full force of a totalitarian state behaving like the East German Stasi at the height of their powers.

I’m sure there are decent people in Norway. Please, wake up, see what the combination of the extreme left and their beloved experiment with unchecked Islam has done to your nation. If you still have a working democracy, use it or, within a generation, you will lose it.

Previously on Israellycool: Separated at Birth?

(hat tip: Shy Guy)

#10 (0 votes) Tie between:

Some palestinian security officer and Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe (first posted Oct 21st)

Some child from an advertisement on the new and improved Jerusalem Post site, and a troll (first posted Jan 26th)

#8 (1 vote): US Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (first posted March 9th)

#7 (2 votes): Tie between:

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the robot from Lost in Space (first posted June 14th).

Some anonymous UN dude and actor Jeff Garlin (first posted Sept 24th).

Businessman and President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, and Seinfeld actor Richard Fancy (first posted Aug 31st).

Gaza flotillards Dror Feiler & Mattias Gardell and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman & Hollywood actor William H Macy (first posted June 4th)

#3 (7 votes): Wide-eyed terror enabler Huwaida Arraf and a Picasso painting (first posted June 17th)

#2 (9 votes): Some palestinian man and a watermelon (first posted June 24th)

Drum roll, please..

#1 ( 29 votes): Yasser Arafat and Helen Thomas (first posted June 8th)

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What is the best Israellycool Separated at Birth for 2010?

Like I did last year, I’ll let you all decide on the final composition and order of the Top 10. All you have to do is vote in the poll underneath the following entries. The poll closes December 31st.

I’ll publish the final list based on your votes the first thing next year.

Some palestinian security officer and Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe (first posted Oct 21st)

Some anonymous UN dude and actor Jeff Garlin (first posted Sept 24th).

Businessman and President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, and Seinfeld actor Richard Fancy (first posted Aug 31st).

Some palestinian man and a watermelon (first posted June 24th)

Wide-eyed terror enabler Huwaida Arraf and a Picasso painting (first posted June 17th)

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the robot from Lost in Space (first posted June 14th).

Yasser Arafat and Helen Thomas (first posted June 8th)

Gaza flotillards Dror Feiler & Mattias Gardell and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman & Hollywood actor William H Macy (first posted June 4th)

US Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (first posted March 9th)

Some child from an advertisement on the new and improved Jerusalem Post site, and a troll (first posted Jan 26th)

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This might just be the mother of them all.

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(hat tip: Harry)