Israellycool

..comes courtesy of the UN (no surprises there).

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will demand that Israel  pay Lebanon  $1 billion in compensation over damages caused during the Jewish state’s 2006 war against Hizbullah, Lebanese media reported Saturday.

According to the report, the sum, based on World Bank appraisals, is aimed at covering the environmental and material damages caused by the Second Lebanon War, to neighboring countries as well.

The fundamental part of the compensation demanded is for the damage caused to the Lebanese coast due to an oil spill following an Israeli bombing of a southern Beirut power plant, which the Lebanese said had caused “an ecological disaster.”

According to the report, Ban plans to submit a report to the United Nations General Assembly at the end of the month, stating that damage Israel caused to the oil reservoir polluted Lebanon’s coast, and that the pollution spread to neighboring countries, especially Syria.

Ban further notes that the UN rehabilitation plan managed to clean some of the oil spill in several areas in northern Lebanon seashores.

The oil spill, which was defined the greatest natural disaster in Lebanon’s history, took place after Israel Air Force planes hit a power plant and caused some 110,000 oil barrels to leak into the Mediterranean Sea.

The report said that the UN wants Israel to compensate the countries harmed by the oil spill and restore the environmental situation along the Lebanon coast. The Jewish state has yet to respond to the demand, despite messages conveyed in August 2007.

How do you say “Get stuffed” in Korean?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says something to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, while Syrian Dorktator Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan look on.

Sarkozy: “Please don’t eat me.”

Syrian President Bashar “Dorktator” Assad lays on the charm in front of Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

“He he he. See what happens when I pull my finger?”

Despite acknowledging being jipped, Israel is still going ahead with the terrorists-for-corpses exchange.

Syrian President Bashar “Dorktator” Assad sticks his neck out to avoid Ehud Olmert in Paris.

‘I’ll be Back’ meets ‘I’ll be Black’: Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’d work for Obama.

The world’s oldest blogger is now of the non-moveable type.

More Iranian fauxtography has been found.

Some Syrian statue and Jebediah Springfield.

Here’s a headline from the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that grabbed my attention:

Mrs. Asmaa al-Assad reviews unique experience on training mentally handicapped

She’ll have her husband doing the dishes in no time.

Figuratively speaking of course:

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said Wednesday that Syria is ‘very cooperative’ in fighting terrorism.

‘We do not accuse countries of being terrorists. We just ask countries to cooperate with us, and Syria is very cooperative,’ Noble told a press conference on the sidelines of an anti-terrorism conference in Damascus.

The Interpol chief said that owing to the help of countries like Syria and Iran, they were able to add many details and pictures to around 8,900 wanted people.

The Onion is probably kicking itself that it did not think of this story first.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Arab News Agency goes even further:

Secretary General Ronald K. Noble expressed appreciation over efforts exerted by Syria to boost the international cooperation in the field of combating terrorism and organized crime.

During a meeting held Tuesday with Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Bassam Abdul-Majeed , Noble said that Syria’s hosting of deliberations of the 3rd Fusion Task Force for Fighting Terrorism asserted her care for activating this cooperation.

He also pointed out to the standing cooperation between Syrian Interior Ministry and the INTERPOL through the National Center of Damascus Interpol, stressing that Syria is ranked among the first ten countries in term of cooperation with the organization.

More like in the top five terror sponsors.

I’ve got only one thing to say to all of this: