Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and President Barack Obama are set to meet on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, according to a surprise White House announcement on Saturday night.

Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)

7:32PM: Earlier today, palestinians fired on Defense Ministry laborers engaged in infrastructure work. The IDF responded by firing mortar shells at the gunmen.

7:15PM: Back when I lived in Australia, a journalist by the name of Liam Bartlett was the news anchor for one of the local television stations. He seemed like a pretty laid back, affable fellow, and when he made it on to the Australian version of 60 minutes, he showed signs of not following in the footsteps of fellow 60 minuter Richard Carleton. In other words, not displaying an incredible anti-Israel bias.

Well, that was then and this is now. Watch here for Liam Bartlett’s blatantly one-sided treatment of the conflict.

And Bartlett’s blog reveals more of the same.

Bartlett shows no hint of even trying to cover the story fairly. He has made up his mind that the so-called” settlements” are wrong, and their inhabitants “extremists.” He takes the word of his palestinian interviewees as fact, while deriding the statements of the “settlers.” There is not even a mention of the terrorism plaguing Israel, and which is the reason for the checkpoints and security fence he is so quick to deride. In fact, one gets the impression that Bartlett would justify terrorism from palestinians, given their allegedly bad treatment at the hands of Israel and those “extremist settlers.”

Bartlett describes anti-fence demonstrations in which participants throw rocks at soldiers as “peaceful” (I’m guessing he has never been hit in the head with a rock, although if he had been, that would explain a lot). He also makes no mention of the context of the war in which Israel captured the territories in dispute, nor the other wars in which the Arabs made very clear their intentions to destroy the tiny Jewish state. And speaking of which, notice how Bartlett describes how tiny the “West Bank” is. He is simply not interested in the fact that Israel is the tiny place surrounded by hostile neighbors out to destroy her, which is the key to understanding the whole conflict.

(Thanks to both my mum and Gedalia for bringing this to my attention)

3:55PM: Old and busted: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

New hotness: Zionist man slayers of death.^TM

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday he was proud he had managed to enrage the West by denying the Holocaust during a speech he made in Tehran in honor of Jerusalem day.

Ahmadinejad was quoted by the Iranian News Agency (IRNA) as saying that the angering of “professional man-slayers is a source of pride for us and will not stand in our way”, apparently in reference to Israel and the West.

“The more these imperialists, enemies of humanity and those whose hearts have no love for the human kind run wild, screaming and throwing accusations, we know our path is correct,” said Ahmadinejad.

1:50PM: How bad is the Goldstone report? Even the former editor in chief of the leftist Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz has ripped it.

Excerpt:

Israel intentionally went after civilians in Gaza — and wrapped its intention in lies.

That chilling — and misguided — accusation is the key conclusion of the United Nations investigation, led by Richard Goldstone, into the three-week war last winter.

1:25PM: How bad is the Goldstone report? Hamas is urging the world to embrace it.

De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh urged world powers on Sunday to embrace a recently-released report on alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s recent war on the Gaza Strip.

“We hope the report … will not be doomed to the fate of the dozens of reports that Israel has condemned for decades,” referring to the report of the fact-finding mission led by Justice Richard Goldstone.

Released last week, Goldstone’s 575-page report drew criticism from the US and Israel for its finding that Israel committed war crimes during the attack on Gaza. While the report focuses on Israel, it also calls for further investigations into alleged violations by Palestinian armed groups.

Responding to the alleged Palestinian violations, Haniyeh said he “affirm[s] our right to self-defense under international law.”

Haniyeh specifically asked the Arab League and European countries to use all means to make sure the report is brought to the attention to the UN Security Council and then referred to prosecutors.

11:15AM: Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security advisor of former US President/current fossilized meddler Jimmy Carter, has said in an interview that the US should use force against IAF planes if they fly over Iraq to strike Iran.

Is the fallout as bad if Israel preemptively strikes Iran?

Absolutely. That is the way, more importantly, how the Iranians would view it. They really can’t do much to the Israelis, despite all their bluster. The only thing they can do is unify themselves, especially nationalistically, to rally against us, and the mullahs might even think of it as a blessing.

How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest?

We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?

What if they fly over anyway?

Well, we have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a Liberty in reverse.

10:15AM: Roseanne Barr:

I will be atoning for the sins of the state of Israel on behalf of the jewish soul. I may be one of the only jews on earth doing this, and so I feel compelled to do it even more strongly. It is very neccessary that this be done, because without atonement and repentance for the things we have done to offend and abuse our neighbors, we will be erased as a people, according to the teachings of our holy books.

Our very existence is the thing which offends our neighbors. I certainly won’t be atoning for that.

By the way, I am really curious as to where in our Holy books Barr found reference to us being erased as a people for offending our neighbors. Curious, since no such reference exists.

9:00AM: Sweden is giving us another reason to dislike them, besides the organ harvesting blood libel, their refusal to condemn it, and ABBA.

5:50AM: Here is Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren’s response to the Goldstone report, to which I linked a few days ago, but now embedded for your viewing pleasure.

5:40AM: Here’s Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talking about Iran, including the claim Israeli President Shimon Peres assurance to him that Israel would not attack Iran, and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s recent “secret” trip to Russia.

Negligent father, Jon Voight,

who is also a serial adulterer, got rich and made his mark by very convincingly, almost TOO convincingly portraying a male prostitute opposite d. hoffman in midnight cowboy, now insults thinking americans further by attacking the leader of our country, our first elected President in eight years!
I am a Jew, and I do not support Jon Voight, the whitest man on earth when he blabs on about Israel. You honky peckerwood, shut your stupid bill kristol directed mouth!

If you were to try to breach my security here in the state where obama was born, I now would have the right as a legal rifle bearing citizen to shoot your rosacea-encrusted face off. So stay out of here! Jon voight is not for socialism without the national part!

I am guessing Barr (or her lawyer) decided it wise to take down this post, which she seems to have done – from her home page (Notice how there are a couple of posts from August 19th, and then one from August 17th).

The problem for her is the August 18th post remains at the link above, and I’ve taken the screen shot just in case she tries to fully delete the evidence.

Could it be that this post will get Barr into more trouble than her Hitler-dressing exploits?

I sure hope so.

Not Roseanne Barr. She’s posted this cryptic title – without elaboration – on her blog:

hitler was just another actor.

Barr desperately needs some lithium and a good dosage of STFU.

75% of fox news’ fascist minded viewers

think Ms. Barr went too far dressing up as Hitler.
25% think its hilarious….

question i must pose:
25% of Fox news viewers are smart? who knew? I am shocked.

And she gives us more insight into her disturbed mind with this ranting post comparing Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hitler, telling Jews to get over Hitler and speak out against “collective punishment in Gaza”:

Hey Roseanne,

I’m from Germany and I need to tell you how much I like the Hitler-Photoshoot! It is so important to make fun of this crazy figure! There is (almost) no german comedian making fun of Hitler. And if so – the german press would take him/her down. Maybe it is inappropriate for Germans – I don’t know, but that’s what it seems like, because lots of germans are still in shock when they even hear his name.

Good job Roseanne!!

my response: Hitler was a dweeb who farted all the time, incested his niece, held her hostage and killed her when she tried to escape at age seventeen, alot like FRITZL.
Hitler, Fritzl, and Shwartzenegger all come from pretty much the same home town, how do ya like that? All of them have a sense of hypermasculinity, which to me is just being phobic of “the female” jungian archetype.
Hitler was so afraid of women, you can just tell if you look.
This guy was a tragic figure of history, a dupe, an actor fronting for industrialists, desperate for the German mother to love him, and think he was enough of a MAN. (so everyday and so predictably boring, the little outfits, boots and hats designed with the little skull and bones on them worn by the other fat and chinless wimps who ruled the “fatherland”. Germany previous to him was known as the “motherland”)
He has been dead for over half a century and people still fear even invoking his name, giving him some horrid power over their own minds. That way we can all pretend that he was not human, and not just like we are. The fact is he thought he was on a holy mission from God (gods), just like everyone else does who thinks that might makes right, and that war solves geographical problems. time for all these idiots to remove themselves from this realm, I say!
I say also, its time for jews to snap out of it, out of nazi mind control. Hitler is a dead guy who thought jews were going to infect german RNA, and yet his own grandmother was impregnated by one of the Rothschild family (jews) while working in their home as a servant. This is what he wanted to obscure most of all, and goerring the same story. self hate is the most virile form of hatred.
Well, he did not kill “the jewish people”, and neither did Haman and neither did Martin Luther, or the Popes of the Vatican, or any of the other despots on earth who caused many to suffer and die, but are now only dust and nothing more. Get over Hitler, Jewish people!! that was then and this is now!
Torah tells us the temple was destroyed by the hatred of one jew to another, and not by any “gentile”. Time for thinking jews to speak out, wake up and take correct spiritual action against evil. Speak out against collective punishment in Gaza!
Our ancestors go back long before there was judaism!
You are under MK ULTRA MIND CONTROL! (see my speech about it here-search it)

Meanwhile, the story made it on to Extra, hosted by that guy from Saved by the Bell.

No, the other one.

Update: And another post goes up.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6637396204037343133
Millions of native americans were victims of Holocaust and genocide under the US and Canadian Governments.
They were marched to death, ghettoed, biologically poisoned, worked to death, robbed penniless, and left to starve.
There is not one holocaust memorial in either country that even mentions them. But every major city in the US has a memorial that commemorates the European Holocaust!
Americans have little or no consciousness of the fact that the land their own homes sit on was stolen through murder and suffering from the native people who lived here for centuries. Just sayin’.
Like the Germans in the 40’s, Jewish people are blind to what is being done in their names today. Genocide is a virus.

It certainly puts her photo shoot into perspective, doesn’t it?

There is so much anti-semitism in this world,

It’s not even funny.
It is as everyday as baking cookies.
Ignorance is not bliss.
Recalling the horrors of the holocaust will not deflect or divert it, as many Jewish people think.

I’m willing to bet that turn of phrase is no coincidence.

And for those of you who would like to compare Barr’s Hitler-Oven photo shoot to Mel Brooks or Charlie Chaplin’s treatment of the Nazi leader, I remind you of Barr’s vehementely anti-Judaism and anti-Israel rhetoric.

Update: I notice the the Barr photoshoot story is gaining traction among the blogs. I am pretty sure I was the first one to break the story, yet not one blog has made the attribution, including a certain blogger who accused yours truly of plagiarism concerning another Barr-related post of mine.

And no, I am not accusing her of plagiarism since I am not arrogant enough to believe that everyone must have read about it first on my site.

I say this as an introduction to the latest abomination to hit their pages:

In case you were wondering, yes, that is nutcase Roseanne Barr dressed as Hitler with an oven mitt.

Deplorable.

Update: From Barr’s blog today:

i think i was hitler in my last life

because I am so often awful in this one, and so racked with guilt over being like that.

Meanwhile, she is still barking mad.

Roseanne Barr is looking to return to primetime.

The star of ABC’s long-running sitcom has teamed with one of the “Roseanne” producers, Caryn Mandabach, for a family comedy in which she would play the matriarch.

Jim Vallely (”Arrested Development”) is attached to pen the script for the project, which has been pitched to Fox. He would executive produce with Mandabach, Maggie Rowe and Barr.

After her eponymous sitcom ended its nine-year run in 1997, Barr fronted a syndicated talk show and a reality series for ABC. Now she’s returning to her scripted comedy roots.

The good news: she might have less time to blog.

Update: Speaking of which, here is how she has blogged this latest news:

premature press ejaculation on the sitcom

Class act.

Illusionist David Copperfield’s assistant has been accidentally sucked into the vortex of an oversized fan before a horrified audience.

Meanwhile, she still hasn’t found her meds.

Nothing, unless you are Roseanne Barr, who manages to devote one sentence to the film before she loses the plot and launches into yet another diatribe against Israel.

sean penn’s milk

is exactly like his mentally challenged guy in the sam i am movie. I like sean penn though, since he is a nice jewish socialist. since i have to do everything first for these hollywood assholes, so that they can act disgusted by me, and then two years later do what I did themselves, I would like to be the first jew in hollywood to call on all other jewish lefties in entertainment to demand that israel be held accountable for what it is doing to the children of gaza, and to demand the blockade end. I know it is now more styling to be about hugo chavez, but this is the time to speak up as a jew against israeli aggression, or go to hell by chanukah.

One word, Roseanne. MEDS.

Not content with this, Barr then plumbs the depths of bad taste, launching an attack against Chabad, barely a couple of weeks after it was singled out by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai.

I am reading where the chabad and other jewish fascist organizations are calling on their right wing militias to punish gaza residents for the terrorism against them in mumbai. this is like the nazis. the jews must embrace hashem and not war! hashem is peace!!!! let hashem fix the middle east. let allah help him and let jesus join them both! this is the time to turn to god and stop waging war. this is armageddon now! there is no stopping it. prepare for the end and repent! repentance is the issue right now, not getting even!!! repent and prepare to meet the big black hole.

I assume she is not referring to her mouth or the inside of her head.