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."