The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Dogs Fly–Now That’s News
“Dozen Chihuahuas Fly From SF to NY to Find Homes”–headline, Daily Telegraph (London), Jan. 6
The Latest Zionist Outrage
The New York Times reports from Jerusalem on the latest Mideast violence:
An anti-Egypt rally in southern Gaza turned deadly on Wednesday when demonstrators rushed the border fence and stoned Egyptian troops on the other side, leading to an exchange of gunfire and the death of an Egyptian soldier. Nine Egyptian soldiers and a dozen Palestinians were wounded from stones and gunfire, witnesses and medics said.
It was the most serious Palestinian-Egyptian violence along the closed Gaza border since Israel’s short-lived invasion more than a year ago, and it reflected rising tensions between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and the Egyptian government, which, like Israel, appears determined to keep Gaza isolated.
The demonstration, organized by Hamas, protested Egypt’s refusal to allow international aid and solidarity missions into Gaza as well as Egypt’s construction of an underground barrier to obstruct smuggler tunnels. Those tunnels supply both goods and arms to Hamas and Gaza.
…we’re sure the U.N. will at least weigh in with a strongly worded resolution against Egypt’s Zionist atrocities.
In other regional news, the Jerusalem Post reports on a meshugas (that’s Hebrew for “kerfuffle”) over segregation on an Israeli bus:
The incident began on Friday, when an 18-year-old Orthodox man noticed the woman, 60, sitting at the front of the bus on a route on which men and women are segregated for purposes of religious modesty.
The man objected to the woman’s seating location, and asked her to move to the back, police said, but she refused to budge.
The exchange quickly escalated into a confrontation, police said.
After being cursed at repeatedly, the woman told him to “shut up,” adding, “What do you care where I sit? So what if this is a religious bus? Nothing will happen if I sit at the front,” according to her police interrogation transcript.
The woman then sprayed tear gas “to scare the youth who was yelling at me,” she told officers.
Good thing Rosa Parks wasn’t Jewish.
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