• How the hell do you spell his name?
• Did he actually get that hideous mole removed, or did the Libyans photoshop it away?
• Are he and his nurse friends with benefits?

For his part, Gaddafi has gone to great lengths to dispel rumors he fled to Venezuela.

The longest serving Arab leader appeared briefly on TV to dispel rumors that he had fled. Sitting in a car in front of what appeared to be his residence and holding an umbrella out of the passenger side door, he told an interviewer that he had wanted to go to the capital’s Green Square to talk to his supporters, but the rain stopped him.

“I am here to show that I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Don’t believe those misleading dog stations,” Gaddafi said, referring to the media reports that he had left the country.

Rhianna, eat your heart out (although I have to admit he more reminds me of this).

Meanwhile, just as happened in the case of deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, there is a rumor that Gaddafi will flee…to Israel.

Because he’s Jewish, of course!

Israel’s Channel 2 News last year interviewed two Israeli women of Libyan origin who claimed to be distant relatives of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The older of the two interviewees, Guita Brown, said she is Gaddafi’s second cousin (Brown’s grandmother was the sister of Gaddafi’s grandmother). The younger of the two women, Rachel Saada, granddaughter of Brown, explained in more detail:

“The story goes that Gaddafi’s grandmother, herself a Jewess, was married to a Jewish man at first. But he treated her badly, so she ran away and married a Muslim sheikh. Their child was the mother of Gaddafi.”

While Gaddafi’s grandmother converted to Islam when she married the sheikh, according to Jewish religious law (and common sense), she was ethnically still Jewish.

At this point the news anchor stated, “So, the point is that Gaddafi doesn’t just have Jewish relatives, he is Jewish!”

Rumors of Gaddafi’s Jewish background are nothing new. But with the current uprising in Libya that threatens to ultimately overthrow the dictator, as has happened in the neighboring countries of Tunisia and Egypt, Gaddafi may be looking for an exit strategy.

If the story told by Brown and Saada is true, Gaddafi is entitled to immigrate to Israel as a Jew under Israel’s Law of Return. Even if every other country on earth refused him entry, Israel would be obligated by its own laws to take Gaddafi in.

At the time of the interview, the anchor quipped, “I am sure there is some local authority in Israel that would be pleased to have a former president on its staff.”

Well, it has been raining in Israel the past few days.

Update: It’s an ingenious Zionist plot really. We interfere in Libya and help trigger the pro-democracy protests there, just so we can get Gaddafi to come to Israel. Probably so we can get him to open a fashion line here.

Update: While we are accused of triggering the pro-democracy protests, various Arab and Muslim tweeters are accusing us of supplying Gaddafi with F-16s to fire upon the protesters!

As they prepare to hit the road, members of the Shalit campaign headquarters admitted that they have learned some lessons from Hamas.

“I hope this march will be our flotilla,” campaign chief Shimshon Libman told Ynet. “Because of the flotilla, the State quickly gave up all the pressure levers it was so proud of – the Gaza blockade and the release of Hamas men from jail. Perhaps our own ‘flotilla’ to Jerusalem will also make a difference.”

Meanwhile, I think Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz represented the sentiment of many Israeli’s when he said this:

“I am opposed to the release of Gilad Shalit at any price. However, I respect the right of Shalit’s parents to do what they are doing. If it was my son I would do the same.”

Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)

10:25PM: The following document was seized on one of the flotilla ships.

1. The document notes that Hamas is designated as a “global terrorist” organization by the US Treasury Department. In addition, it states that the UN has also blacklisted Hamas as a terrorist organization. Consequently, a US citizen providing “material support” to Hamas may face criminal charges in US courts. This may also pose a problem to citizens of other countries, which is why Free Gaza advises them to check the laws and regulations on dealing with Hamas in their countries.

2. Reading between the lines, it appears that Free Gaza is well aware that transporting aid to the Hamas de-facto administration, considered to be an inseparable part of Hamas by the US administration, is a violation of US law.

3. The document illustrates that Free Gaza is aware that it is legally problematic to deliver aid to the Hamas de-facto administration in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the US, where Hamas is banned.1 Therefore, the document contains a legal briefing of sorts (“legal information”) to activists taking part in the flotilla, the main points of which are:

a. The activists from the various countries, particularly US residents, must avoid even the appearance of providing “material support” to Hamas, including its leadership.

b. Free Gaza has said publicly and repeatedly that it serves no political agenda whatsoever and that it is engaged solely in non-violent humanitarian support for the Palestinian people, not the Palestinian leadership. Under no circumstances should any participant make a public statement of affinity or admiration of any political group in Palestine (note: the public portrayal of providing humanitarian support for the Palestinian people as the movement’s goal is incorrect, since an inside document found aboard the Mavi Marmara defined the goals of the flotilla to be political, not humanitarian..)

Read the entire analysis here.

8:00PM: Quote of the day:

“Iran is not guaranteeing a peaceful production of nuclear power [so] the members of the G-8 are worried and believe absolutely that Israel will probably react preemptively.”

- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sounding sure of himself, following talks with other Group of Eight leaders.

7:28PM: Fatah’s Najat Abu Bakr expresses her optimism about peace in the Middle East.

4:33PM: Does this guy ever shut up?

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim on Sunday commented on reports that the term of Mossad chief Meir Dagan would not be extended, saying Dagan should have resigned long ago and that Israel doesn’t accept “losers.”

“Dagan should have stepped down a long time ago as his intelligence service has been exposed by Dubai police,” Tamim said in an interview with the Emirati newspaper Gulf News. “We suggested to him that he resign in order to save his honor, but he didn’t do that.”

3:06PM: Here’s a good example of how the palestinian side blames Israel for things for which they themselves are to blame.

One can not predict when the crisis of electricity in the Gaza Strip will ever end, it began with the Israeli bombing of Gaza’s only power plant only four years ago to render the damage of two generators out of three which operate the whole power plant, and on yesterday evening the halt of this generator was announced, not because of the Israeli bombardment, but because of preventing the needed fuel from entering to Gaza.

Yesterday, Gaza’s only power plant stopped. The chairman of the energy and natural resources authority in Gaza, Kanaan Obeid, said that the power plant stopped working last night, because it wasnt provided with the required quantities of fuel to run the power plant, assuring that the deficit in the electric power supplied to the provinces of Gaza will come to 60 percent, warning of a major humanitarian disaster in Gaza’s hospitals.

And now for the real reason:

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) called on the different Palestinian factions Sunday to stop the infighting in order to solve a developing electricity crisis in Hamas-run Gaza.

“It is such a tragedy that, on top of all the other crises that we have in the Gaza Strip, we now have a crisis of electricity,” John Ging, director of UNRWA in Gaza, was quoted by AFP as saying.

“It’s an unbearable situation here at the moment, and it needs to be solved very quickly. It’s a Palestinian problem, made by Palestinians, and causing Palestinian suffering. So let’s have a Palestinian solution,” he added.

The single power plant in Gaza, which normally generates 25 percent of the electricity used in the Strip, was shut down over the weekend due to a payment dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

12:44PM: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has once again turned to the Evil Dictators’ Cliche Book for inspiration.

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez described Israel on Saturday as a genocidal state that acted as an assassin for the United States, predicting the Middle East nation would one day be “put in its place.”

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The socialist Chavez is a harsh critic of both Israel and the United States and cut relations with Israel after accusing it of “holocaust” for its 2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip.

“It has become the assassin arm of the United States, no one can doubt it. It is a threat to all of us,” Chavez said, during a visit by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Chavez said he supported a peaceful struggle for the return to Syria of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967.

“The territory will one day return to the Syrian hands,” Chavez said. “Of course we want it to be peaceful because we don’t want more war.”

“But one day the genocidal state of Israel will be put into its place, and let’s hope that a really democratic state emerges there, with which we can share a path and ideas.”

Chavez did not offer further details of what putting Israel “in its place” would entail.

6:15AM: Yet another example of our so-called peace partners showing how they really feel about us and educating the young (via PMW).

That interviewer really knows how to ask leading questions.

Here’s what Peres actually said:

“They [Chavez and Ahmadinejad] won’t hold, not because any of us is going to kill them; their own people are getting tired of them. So if you want good relations with them, consider that they are passing passengers. It’s a short-term relationship. So don’t waste too much on them.”

Sure, he isn’t running over to kiss them, but it is hardly a threat.

If anything, it’s giving them the bird.

Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)

10:55PM: Hamas has decided to suspend negotiations over the release of Gilad Shalit until after the Muslim feast of Id al-Adha, claiming Israel is hindering a prisoner exchange agreement between the two sides because of its refusal to release all prisoners demanded by Hamas.

“Israel still hasn’t accepted the demands of Schalit’s captors,” al-Haya said. “We hold Israel responsible for the delay in reaching a prisoner exchange agreement.”

6:48PM: It’s Dersh vs J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami, moderated by Eliot Spitzer, with nary a prostitute in sight.

4:30PM: If you are not following me on Twitter, you are a bloody idiot missing out on the whole Israellycool experience, including my Barghouti pop song titles.

4:00PM: Old and busted: Viagra or Cialis

New hotness: Zionist Death Shock ^TM to the privates.

3:48PM: Israeli actress Gal Gadot is set to appear with Tom Cruise in a new film.

Whatever you do, Gal, don’t accept his invitation to see his book collection.

3:00PM: Israel is set to announce a 10-month settlement freeze.

6:16AM: Major Nidal Hasan’s first cousin expresses his shock that cuz perpetrated the evil terror attack at Fort Hood.

Note how he proclaims he’s shocked “especially since the history of this family is non-violence,” while pictures of arch terrorist Yasser Arafat adorn the wall behind him.

6:10AM: Head Hamashole Ismail Haniyeh has reportedly canceled his pilgrimage trip to Mecca as hopes rise for a Gilad Shalit-for-terrorists exchange deal.

Which means we won’t be seeing him like this.

Meanwhile, Israeli is reportedly waiting for the response of Syrian-based chief Hamashole Khaled Meshaal.

6:02AM: Heil Hassan?

Hezbollah fighters parade during a ceremony organized by the militant Shiite Muslim group on the occasion of Martyr’s Day in the southern suburbs of Beirut on November 11. US prosecutors on Tuesday accused 10 people of having supported the Shiite militant group Hezbollah with weapons, fake passports, counterfeit money, stolen laptops and game consoles. (AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)