A few articles of interest -- to me at least -- from the poorly sourced and unreliable World Net Daily...

John François Kerry is outraged over comments made on the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show Friday afternoon. I was listening... I doubt Kerry was. It was probably a Kerry staffer whose job it is to listen in on the enemy du jour. After all, if it's a dirty job someone other than Kerry's gonna hafta do it. Someone pass the Brie...

"His latest statement about Israel is beyond offensive to all of us who have fought to protect Israel in the face of enemies committed to its destruction."

What did Limbaugh say that got Kerry so bent out of shape?

Limbaugh said the most frequent guest in the Clinton White House, besides Monica Lewinsky and the campaign donors in the Lincoln bedroom, was Yasser Arafat. He called President Bush the best friend Israel ever had in the White House.

"Rush Limbaugh needs to pick up a history book instead of a doughnut," Kerry added. "It was a Democratic president who first recognized the State of Israel. It was a Democratic president who first sold Israel defensive weapons. And it was a Democratic president who first sold Israel offensive weapons."

1. Is Kerry implying he himself has "fought to protect Israel in the face of enemies committed to its destruction"? Uh.... What were the Viet Cong doing in the Middle East? And was Kerry AWOL at the time? Where's Dan Rather when you need him?

2. Doughnut? Are you kidding me? Is that your best shot?

3. A Democratic President was the first to recognize Israel because a Democratic President was in office when Israel became a nation.

4. The same undoubtedly goes for the selling of Defensive and Offensive weapons as well.

Your outrage, Monsieur, is as much a façade as your integrity.

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I commented on this Thursday, but WorldNetDaily has seen fit to publish another news piece on the now cancelled World Pride Jerusalem event that was scheduled for August the 6th--12th.

Said Pinchas Winston, a noted author, rabbi and lecturer based in Jerusalem...

"Why does this war break out this week, all of sudden with little warning? Because this is the exact week the Jewish people are trying to decide whether the gay pride parade should take place in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv."

Winston called the parade "an attack against God himself."

"God has told the Jewish people, 'If you are not going to fight for my honor, you will be forced to fight for your own honor.'"

Well, there's another theory to answer the "Why now?" question. It's Iran, It's Syria, No it's God saying, "no Gays marching in MY city, Bub!"

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File this one under: Interestingly Enough. I've mentioned this one in passing as well a day or so ago...

[The] leading Wahhabi cleric in Saudi Arabia issues scathing fatwa against Hizbullah... Sheik Abdullah bin Jabreen declares it against Muslim Sharia law to support, join, or even pray for the terror group, writing, "our advice to the Sunnis is to denounce them and shun those who join them to show their hostility to Islam and to the Muslims," the report said.

The New York Sun reports that the fatwa also condemns Iran for funding and supporting Hezbollah to further what Jabreen called its imperial ambitions.

This fatwa joins a ruling by a Kuwaiti sheikh, who harshly condemned the imperialistic aspirations of Iran through Hizbullah following the abduction of Israeli soldiers on the Lebanon border.

The surprising move by the Sudi sheikh demonstrates the controversy among cleric in the Middle East regarding the issue of supporting or opposing Hizbullah, which is a Shiite organization.

Some Sunni clerics, such as the Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt, have declared their support of Hizbullah.

The Wahhabi faction, however, usually opposed Hizbullah's armed struggle against Israel. The faction members are well familiar with the controversy between the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.

Now what did I tell you all in previous posts... This war is really between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Sunni's against the Shiite's. Israel is burdensome stone to Iran, and convenient impetus for Saudi Arabia. We could even say that the conflict in Iraq; the sectarian violence many in the media are erroneously calling a civil war, is merely a microcosm of the ideological war in the broader Middle East.

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This last piece comes from Agence France Presse... It seems Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel, contestants at the Miss Universe Pageant, are fast friends.

"I think the perpetrators of the current Middle East crisis could learn a few lessons from Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel, who are the best of friends here..."

--Miss Germany Natalia Ackerman.

I guess there's more to Miss Universe than the bathing suit competition... Speaking of which, Brooke at NeoCon Command Center has a humorous picture of the newest trend in female muslim bathing suits. There's some witty commentary as well.