Interesting News

++Prince Talal, the Saudi billionaire sold his majority shares in News Corps.

++Zacharias Moussaou, a 9-11 plotter serving time in a SuperMax prison, reveals that bin Laden had him keep a log of Al Qaeda donors on his computers. Among them were members of the Saudi Royal Family. He also testified that officials at the Saudi embassy were involved in 9-11.

++Does this make Fox News, a 9-11 collaborator?

++It's time that the Saudi section of the 9-11 report be declassified. In answering today's news, the Saudis said the 9/11 report exonerated them. Senator Graham says that isn't so.

++Meanwhile in the perpetual snafu that is Bibi, the Israeli Ambassador has been meeting with Jewish Democratic members of Congress. There is only 1 Jewish Republican. The reason is damage control to the max. At least 34 Democrats threatened to boycott Netanyahu's speech.

++It has been announced that Joe Biden will not be attending. He's the highest officer of the Senate. I guess Dermer will have to select Dick Cheney.

++Richard Cohen, who wrote a lovely memoir about his mother who suffered from depression,alerts us in the Imperial Post that Israel is not the cause of the latest rise in anti-semiticism. Indeed,as we have seen the far-right parties of Europe have it as their heritage. That's why the Bibi ploy is so frustrating because the rise again of anti-semiticism deserves a serious discussion.

++Bernard-Henri Levy wrote a strange but totally appropriate column about reading Martin Heidegger and anti-semiticism. I also felt embarrassed for Hannah Arendt for her life-time loyalty to Heidegger. As Levy points out,Heidegger's papers have finally been released and they show--yes, he was not only anti-semitic but a believing Nazi.

++In my prowls through my storage unit, I found today a pristine copy of "Eichmann and the Holocaust" by Hannah Arendt, which was published as a compete essay by Penguin Books in their great ideas series.

++I will read it again with the knowledge Hannah Arendt worshipped Heidegger, even after being warned off by other German philosophers of Heidegger's generation.

++I will close by complimenting Bibi on his political ad "The Bibi-sitter", where he arrives a young couple's apartment to baby sit their child. When the couple comes home, the young father greets him with "Shalom" and Bibi says "But not unconditional." 

More France

++If you want an excellent article about the radicalization of the Hebdod killers, this morning's Guardian delivers the goods about their gang in the park and their time in prison.

++Steve Emerson, who had made his living warning about Islamic terrorism, got caught out by his remake of Fox News referring to Manchester UK as a Muslim city with no-go areas and parts ruled by sharia law. The Prime Minister said he almost threw up his porridge at that. The BBC got Emerson on their air where he apologized sort of--even though he insisted their were "no-go" areas in London.

++Bernard-Henri Levy ( I finally got the hyphen right) remains rhapsodic about the rally/ march in Paris. He claims it was bigger than the demonstrations after the liberation of Paris in WWII. He said it was "metapolitical grace" and liken John Kerry speech to the address of FDR to the newly liberated country after the defeat of the Nazis. The Daily Beast has his full essay.

++The Daily Beast has another article about the Muslim suburbs in Paris blaming everything on--guess!--the "Jews". 

++While Bernard-Henri Levy loved the number of heads of states that turned out, Charley Hebdod's staff was cynical about all the heads of state who censored the press and cartoonists.

++And about cartoonists, the United States has only 26 staff political cartoonists on over 1,300 newspapers.