So let’s all go back in time to the happy early 2000′s, to see the Israeli entry to the 2000 Eurovision in the Netherlands.

Yes, that is indeed the worst song of all time, made even crappier by the hippie Syrian love.

In that time period, there were talks about Israeli-Syrian peace treaty that thankfully did not materialize.

Remember: The root cause of Islamic violence is the Islamic fundamentalists’ ideology. Not Israel.

Israel is part of the solution, not the problem.

A four-year-old girl from Syria underwent successful lifesaving heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on Monday as part of its voluntary Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) activities. The child, whose identity is not being released to keep the family safe from extremists in her country, was referred to SACH by an American humanitarian organization operating in Israel and Jordan.

SACH, founded by the late pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Amiram Cohen, has treated more than 3,000 children from 44 developing nations. On Monday, Syria became the 45th country.

The girl was brought here last week from an undisclosed third country where she and her mother were living as refugees of the current Syrian civil war. Upon her arrival, the girl was examined by the SACH medical team, who decided that she would undergo open-heart surgery as soon as possible — all of it free and supplied by volunteer medical staffers and raised funds. The procedure was performed at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. She is now recovering in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit.

According to the child’s mother, doctors in Syria discovered the girl’s heart condition when the child was six months old, but proper medical care was not available. “We kept taking her to doctors but nothing could be done for her,” the mother said. “She couldn’t run and play like other children, and she was very sick most of the time.” The mother said after the operations that the doctors treated them very well. At Wolfson, she met other SACH patients and their families — many of them Palestinian and Arabic speaking.

Meanwhile, Syrian rebels have shown they also are quite adept at open heart surgery.

Trains Rolling Along And ‘Jews Living Happily in Auschwitz’

Trains are moving efficiently toward the new homes of the Jews and many hundreds of thousands of them are now ‘living happily in Auschwitz’ and the other ‘holiday camps’ we have set up for them said moderate Nazi minister of Public Enlightenment, Joseph Goebbels.

How would that be for a headline and first paragraph of a story?

Lets try another one:

Obama’s administration presents a ‘forged birth certificate’

In response to demands that he prove he was not born in Kenya, Obama’s administration has released a clearly forged ‘Certificate of Live Birth’ said leading campaigners for truth and justice.

This is fun, I’m on a roll here.

Bombing attacks on trains and buses in London ‘completely justified’

A leading Muslim cleric in London today claimed blowing up British ‘citizens on their way to work’ was completely justified because of British participation in killing Muslims in Afghanistan.

Oh wait, I haven’t done Israel yet! How stupid of me:

Israeli strikes on Syria ‘co-ordinated with terrorists’

Israeli strikes on Syrian army targets show co-ordination with ‘terrorists’ including al-Qaeda linked militants, the Syrian foreign ministry has said.

No serious, credible news agency would ever write headlines and first paragraphs as inflammatory and so obviously based on ridiculous sources right?

They’d be acting as a mouth piece for the worst murderers and despots in the world if they did. Right? Of course they wouldn’t.

Which is why, of course, the last one is (as I write this) still on the BBC’s website hours after I first saw it.

Balance? If you live in the UK you pay for this evil.

And this is from the actual home page of the entire BBC News site:

Elder of Zion also has a post on this. Honest Reporting is correctly pointing out that the rarely used word “terrorist” is being thrown around with gay abandon when it is Israel in the frame for cavorting with “terrorists”.

UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says Israel has “drawn a red line” around “weapons moving towards Hezbollah” from Syria #MarrShow

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 5, 2013

Israel doesn’t need to draw any new red lines or lines in the sand or any other nonsense. They were all firmly drawn by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 (UNSC-1701):

– no sales or supply of arms and related materiel to Lebanon except as authorized by its Government;

Seeing as the UN is in no fit state to gaurantee anything related to Syria or it’s (very binding) Security Council Resolutions, Israel has to go in and do the job itself. Because it is me and my kids who these weapons are aimed at and I don’t want to end up like the tens of thousands of dead in Syria.

Perhaps the only 1701 Philip Hammond and the BBC can remember is the USS Enterprise starship, NCC-1701.

h/t to Judge Dan for spotting the tweet.

“Why is Hizbullah attacking the Syrian people and forcing them out of their homes?” When you are evil, you tend to care less about civilians than your ultimate goals.

A historic Jewish synagogue in Damascus has been damaged and looted as clashes have consumed the surrounding neighborhood, a Syrian official and an anti-government activist said Monday.

Damage to the synagogue, believed to be hundreds of years old, is the latest example of Syria’s rich cultural heritage falling victim to the civil war between the regime of President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his ouster.

The synagogue, built in honor of the prophet Elijah, has long been considered an important pilgrimage site.

Maamoun Abdul-Karim, head of the Antiquities and Museums Department of the Syrian Culture Ministry, said objects from the Jobar synagogue were stolen last year, but that officials haven’t been able to visit the building for months because rebels control the area.

Rebel forces established footholds in a number of Damascus suburbs and last year pushed into Jobar, a neighborhood on the city’s northeast corner. Since then, they have been clashing with government troops.

Abdul-Karim said there was no way for the government to protect all of Syria’s historical sites because there are thousands of them across the country. He called the looting “a crime” and “a big loss for us.”

“It’s the heritage of the homeland regardless of religion, whether it’s Jewish, Muslim or Christian,” he told The Associated Press by phone. “It’s the Syrian mosaic and the heritage of the people.”

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An anti-government activist in Jobar reached via Skype on Monday said the synagogue had been looted continuously during recent months and was damaged by shelling conducted by regime forces.

He said he visited the facility in early March and found damage to adjoining buildings but not to the main sanctuary.

“There had been lots of theft,” he said. “I don’t know what was there originally, but we know there were lots of old books and artifacts that are not there anymore,” said the activist, who goes by the name Abu Hassaan al-Damishqi.

Like many rebels, he spoke on condition that he would be identified only by that nickname, by which he is widely known among his comrades, fearing that publication of his real name could endanger his family.

He said local rebels thought government forces had looted the site, although he acknowledged that the looting also could have been the work of thieves taking advantage of a lack of security.

“This is the history of the city, and it doesn’t matter if you are a Muslim or not,” he said. “This is the history of our country so we all want to protect it.”

Meanwhile, can you guess who Hizbullah’s Al Manar News has as the culprits?

Clue: Starts with a ‘J’ and ends in ‘oooooooooooooooos’

The Zionist intelligence agency has succeeded in robbing various precious items from the synagogue located in Jobar neighborhood, north-east of the Syrian capital, Syria Truth website reported.

The Zionist agents were assisted by the Jordanian Kingdom, Turkish militias, the so-called “Free Syrian Army” and al-Nosra front of al-Qaeda which controls the area, the website stated.

The site obtained this information from its correspondent Lea Abarmovitch citing sources close to the Syrian Rabbi Ibrahim Hamra who lives in the Occupied Territories of Palestine since 1994.

The sources confirmed to Syria Truth that the decision to steal the contents of the Syrian Jewish temple was made three weeks ago, due to being a victim of several shells that have ravaged its outer wall.

Moreover, the sources assured that a Zionist commandos unit composed of 15 members landed in Damascus earlier this week and removed rare items from the temple known as “Eliyahoo.” The operation was carried out with the help of Islam Brigades militia, noting that the Zionist commandos were divided into 5 teams in order to get out of Syria through five different directions.

A Syrian Jewish source also revealed that Zionist members of the commando were of Arab origins: Iraqi, Moroccan and Lebanese, and were dressed in Islamist jihadists’ uniforms.

A video, posted on YouTube on March 27, filmed footage of a militiaman falling inside the synagogue, trying to show the frames that have been emptied of their contents. This evidence shows that the work was done by professionals, since no trace of a shell or a destruction of the wall is visible.

Dating from 750 BC, the Jewish temple is one of the oldest in the world, while the district Jobar had at that time one of the largest gatherings of Arab Jews in the world after that of Khaybar in the Arabian Peninsula.

“It was in this temple that the prophet Elijah prayed to God and appointed his disciple Elieshaa as his successor,” the Zionist newspaper Maariv quoted the Jewish historian Yaaron Haraël.

It has one of the oldest libraries of Hebrew manuscripts, including a copy of the Torah, the oldest in the world, and a number of tables and candles.

In recent years, the Syrian authorities had started the rehabilitation of Jewish temples throughout Syria, but works were suspended with the outbreak of recent events.

For its part, Syria Truth confirmed that the assistance of militias was made up through the Military Council of the FSA in the governorate of Daraa – which holds regular meetings with the Zionist intelligence services in Amman since last November, under the sponsorship of the Jordanian intelligence services and the coordinator Ahmad Masri.

It goes without saying that this is bogus and insulting. And, quite frankly, not even hard to spot as fake. I mean, a correspondent for the Syria Truth website with the Jewish-sounding name of Lea Abarmovitch? (I assume they meant Abramovitch).

As it turns out, this name has appeared for quite a while, and this blogger long ago established she doesn’t exist.

If you are going to invent a conspiracy theory, at least put some effort into making it believable.

A Danish television channel has admitted it mistakenly used an image from a computer game to illustrate a news report about Syria.

TV2 Head of News Jacob Nybroe said Sunday the picture that was used as a backdrop behind news anchor Cecilie Beck on Feb. 26 came from adventure game Assassin’s Creed.

He says he learned about the mistake this week, following speculation about the origin of the image on social media sites.

One of the TV channel’s employees had found the image online and thought it was a photo of Damascus’ skyline.

Nybroe says it was a terrible mistake and a “reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures.”

Fantastic! All this story is missing is the kitchen sink Jar Jar Binks.

Shateri in a happier, less dead state (AP)

Hassan Shateri, the Iranian general whose killing was reported last week, was actually slain last month in an alleged IAF airstrike that was said to have targeted a weapons convoy heading from Syria to the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Britain’s Sunday Times reported.

Iran was quick to blame “mercenaries and supporters” of Israel for Shateri’s death, although it made no indication that he had been killed in that airstrike. Tehran “will take revenge on Israel for the killing of a Quds Force general in Syria,” said Ali Shirazi, liaison for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force.

Shateri was a high-ranking member of the Quds Force, which is tasked with international operations, and was instrumental in Iran-Hezbollah relations, overseeing the reconstruction of Hezbollah’s armaments in the wake of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Sunday’s report said.

For Israel, he was long a “prime target,” according to an Israeli security figure quoted by The Times.

The report described how, despite the tight security surrounding Shateri, Israeli agents spotted him in Damascus and trailed him as he boarded the convoy headed for Lebanon, after which the air-strike option was utilized.

I’m guessing his surname was appropriate, given the state of his pants right after he heard the missile coming towards him.

The Zionist former Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni admitted last week that the Arab Emirate of Qatar has funded the electoral campaign of Zionist Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and that of the ‘Yisrael Beiteinu’ party.

During an interview with the Zionist television Channel-1, Livni said that her rival Netanyahu has received from Qatar $3 million and the ‘Yisrael Beiteinu’ party $1.5 million for their campaigns.

However, Netanyahu promised the Qatari emir in exchange that he will meet Hamas after the elections and that the right-wing coalition will promote the creation of a Jordanian-Palestinian governed federation, she added, noting that Hamas and the Zionist officials had already secret meetings in Doha.

Livni also stated that she is a close friend of Mrs. Mozah, wife of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar.

Of course, Livni never made such a claim.

According to the Israeli site Mida, the rumor was disseminated by Syria’s Addounia TV, as a way for Syrian dorktator Bashar Assad to settle accounts with the Qatari emir. You see, the emir last year issued a call to send Arab troops to Syria to overthrow Assad’s regime and prevent the massacre of civilians. Assad is also displeased with the Qatari owned Al Jazeera, claiming they are biased against him.

Poor Livni. She’s certainly been a favorite of Arab conspiracy nuts.