Right On The Right

The web poses new challenges, especially in conflicts where there's a crisis of identity. Palestinians living in the contested areas want to be known as residents of Palestine, while Jewish settlers of course want to be called Israeli. Facebook got dropped into this very conflict of identity:

Facebook, which unwittingly had dropped itself smack in the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reversed itself Monday and now is allowing Jewish settlers in the West Bank to list themselves as residents of Israel, not a country called "Palestine."

Users of the social networking Web site who live in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other large Jewish settlements in the West Bank protested when Facebook automatically listed "Palestine" as their hometown, the Jerusalem Post reported.

A settlers group accused the California-based company of having a political agenda.

"I was surprised and disappointed to find that my hometown of Ariel is listed in Facebook as being part of a country called 'Palestine,"' Ari Zimmerman wrote in a posting on Facebook, Reuters reported. "I am a citizen of Israel, as are all of the other residents of Ariel. We do not live in 'Palestine,' nor does anyone else."

This is a good move by Facebook, although the unabashed Israel-supporter in me would've liked Facebook to put all of the contested territories under Israel. They could easily provide the Palestinian government's support of state-sponsored terrorism as the rationale for failing to include Palestine. If they must include Palestine, Israel should absolutely be an option, and failure to include the Democracy as an option in those territories would be horrendous.

Barack Obama's conspiracy theorist former Pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, still matters quite a bit. Although Barack condemned the man's statements, he's claiming they were cherry-picked, and this isn't what Wright truly stood for. The word is Barack's going to be giving a speech tomorrow addressing this issue, amongst others, tomorrow. While we await that, here's another of Wright's "cherry-picked" messages, this time spewing garbage about Israel:

Months ago, Hamas ran a tv program that included a costumed character looking like Mickey Mouse. They replaced him with an outspoken terrorist bee. Now, the bee is dead, and they've replaced him with a big pink jew-eating bunny. You can't make this stuff up. Check it out:

Via Hot Air, and by video, FOX News, the Palestinians are rioting and tearing down walls. See the problem with open borders? In all seriousness, there is a serious problem in the Middle East and intervention is required. No clue who though, since the liberals would scream bloody murder.

Despite the objections of Ron Paul and isolationists all over the country, foreign aid is necessary. Is the amount of foreign aid we currently dish out necessary? Not at all. For example, the Palestinian authority should get absolutely nothing, though Israel should continue getting financial help. Unfortunately, we're dumping more cash into the Fatah-led government:

WASHINGTON — The United States will pledge about $500 million for the moderate-led Palestinian government in the West Bank when Arab, European and other nations meet next week, U.S. officials said.

The money would go toward a goal of $5.6 billion that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair hopes to raise to rescue the tattered Palestinian economy and reinforce institutions that would become the backbone of any eventual independent Palestinian state.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will deliver the pledge at a conference Blair has called Monday in Paris, the officials said. The officials spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because the figure has not been announced and might be changed slightly.

The money is part of world efforts to improve the Palestinians' financial position as new U.S.-sponsored peace talks begin.

Essentially, the United States is dumping cash into the Fatah-led government so that they don't crumble to the Hamas rebels that now control the Gaza strip. The Fatah government is only "moderate" in relation to Hamas, and Fatah's leader is pictured above with Yasser Arafat, the terrorist founder of Fatah. A civil war of sorts occurred in the Palestinian-controlled territories, and there's still not a united Palestinian government. My solution? Give it all to Israel and let them handle the problem the same way they always have.