Sorry, Professor Cole, but this assertion of yours--"More fundamentally, even Hamas' charter could change. As the ICG points out, Hamas 'has accepted the principle that there is no religious prohibition against negotiating or co-existing with Israel and that the provisions in its charter providing for Israel's destruction are not indelible'"--is clear proof that you live in a fantasyland that is every bit as detached from reality as the one that President Bush inhabits.

If DZ considers even Salon regulars like Juan Cole (and the Salon artists who illustrate some of his artices) to be biased toward Israel, I really don't think that DZ is going to be very satisfied with anything DZ reads on this site.

. . . Euro.

Looking forward to Juan Cole's next Salon piece, in which he will explicitly blame all of the chaos and bloodshed on Israel. You know it's coming.

You don't have to look far into this article for proof of the author's bias and the look-the-other-way sloppiness of Salon's "editors." The picture at the very top of the article is captioned "A Palestinian man stands at the border fence as he looks to the Israeli settlement of Metulla..." Settlement? Metulla is no more a settlement than Massachusetts is a colony. It is a village in Israel, inside the pre-1967 borders, that was founded 110 years ago. The early inhabitants were Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms. It is not disputed territory unless you consider all of Israel to be disputed territory. If that is the point that Sandy Tolan and Salon are really trying to make, then further discussion of the blatant misrepresentations and exaggerations of this article is pointless.

Viewers may also be interested in a similar video by Ahree Lee here: http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/me

Both of these are wonderful, and I hope that the artists keep them going for many years and that we are all around to marvel at them.

Before the letters column in response to this article overflows with the usual Salon-style Israel-hatred (even a King Kaufman article about Israel Idonije would generate such letters, I'm convinced), I'd like to offer a hearty Kol HaKavod (look it up!) to Prime Minister Olmert for just surviving his own prime ministership.

Meanwhile, how many of you out there knew that the brand-new Israel Baseball League held its inaugural opening day on Monday, June 24? Check it out at www.israelbaseballleague.com.

This post, stylistically at least, sounds more like James Taranto than like the Tim Grieve we've come to know and love--just a bit too quick and a bit too snide. The WSJ article actually makes some excellent points about future prospects for women candidates. Yes, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi at the pinnacles of power would be quite significant, but their success could very well mask the struggles of other women candidates at the lower levels of government.

Stephany, the problem is the Islamic content plus the sexual reference.

Farhad is wrong for saying that the iPhone early adopters, who bought it for $599, paid "a third more than everybody else." $599 is 50% more than $399. And Lazy Lady is wrong when she(?) says that Farhad's math is correct. But she's right that $399 is third less than $599. Get it?

Bravo, Garrison, on the bottled water lunacy, the incompetent fratboyhood of the Current Occupant, etc., etc. But don't make me give up my iPod. Inside that audio bubble I peacefully listen to your Writer's Almanac and News From Lake Wobegon during my daily commute.

Salon's editors will probably give it a red star, but I think that Anonymous's letter ("Heartbreaking? Please) is hateful, and sad. Anonymous, please look at your words. Can you really feel this way about your fellow human beings? Are you so filled with bile and contempt for the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East that you can actually condone the murder of innocent teenagers? Do you honestly believe that Israel should be the only focus of the United Nations and that its eradication would bring world peace? If so, I feel sorry for you.

Speling rite is for wimp's and librel's. Johm McCain is a reguler guy. 1 of us! Mccain O8!

Kristol was born December 23, 1952. Therefore, according to the Selective Service System's History & Records site here:

http://www.sss.gov/lotter3.htm ,

his draft lottery number was 171 in the drawing held on August 5, 1971, well above the cutoff for induction that year.

Of course, he could have enlisted at any time.

Matthew Scully, who wrote the great "Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy," should be ashamed to be writing speeches for NRA lifetime member Sarah Palin. On page 368 of his book he cites the NRA one of a number of groups pushing for renewed ivory hunting and trading--"the elephant's longtime persecutors . . . who think it is their divine right to sit around international conferences and hotel suites parceling out elephants and whales and whatever other creature will turn a profit."