1. Hey folks, what do you call a yellow Far-Leftist scandalous gutter newspaper with egg all over its face?

   The answer: Haaretz!!

   Seems a Jerusalem Magistrate Court convicted Haaretz yesterday of libel and ordered the Red and Yellow newspaper to pay a quarter million shekels to Hebron settlers. The paper had earlier fabricated a story whereby the settlers spat upon the corpse of a dead Palestinian terrorist and kicked it.

   Except they did not. Typical Haaretz objectivity and professionalism.

2. Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister in the Sharon government, is launching a campaign to get Israeli politicians to stop calling Arafat nasty names. Really! (Haaretz June 8)

   Apparently his campaign will be based on the chant, "Bombs and shells may break our bones but names will never hurt him."

3. Peres’ office is having trouble refraining from gladhanding and thumping its own back. Yusuf Samir, an Israeli Arab held hostage by the PLO Gestapo in Bethlehem, got back home to Israel yesterday. Peres and his troopers are claiming it was thanks to the dynamic charisma of Uncle Shimon and his ability to use the German Foreign Ministry to intervene with the PLO. Samir himself however claims it was simply because he managed to sneak away from his guards while they were snoozing.

   Whom do YOU believe?

4. A Tel Aviv court just sentenced Abdullah Abu-Jabber to a mere 20 years in the klink, meaning he will serve 12, meaning he will get out next time the Israeli government wants to show the world its goodwill.

   The gent had placed a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus last year that injured 14, one young woman in particular badly maimed and disabled.

   Meaning the price of maiming Jews is now less than a year in prison in post-survivalist post-Zionist Israel.

5. Melchior: Europe is pro-Palestinian due to guilt over Holocaust By Herb Keinon

   JERUSALEM (June 7) - Europe’s pro-Palestinian bent has to do with guilt over the Holocaust and a desire to blame the Jews for aggression, Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior said yesterday.

   Melchior, currently on a visit to Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Holland, issued a statement saying: "It is very difficult for Europe to deal with its past and everything relating to the Holocaust, and therefore if there is a combination of incidents that make it possible to blame the Jews for ’aggression,’ as it were, then they will take advantage of it."

   Melchior’s comment came against the background of more critical comments about Israel made by Denmark’s Foreign Minister, Mogens Lykketoft.

   Lykketoft told a television interviewer earlier this week that the terror attack outside the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv that killed 20 people did not change his opinion that Israel, and not the Palestinians, is responsible for the current round of violence. The Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Director-General for Europe, Ehud Gol, summoned Danish Ambassador Kofoed Hansen to his office to protest against these comments.

   This is not the first time Lykketoft has slammed Israel. He told a Danish newspaper in March that an international "mechanism" should be set up to protect Palestinian human rights, and that the EU should take economic sanctions against Israel because of its settlement policy.

   Gol told Hansen that Denmark is "embracing" terror, and that Israel is shocked by the negative atmosphere in Denmark.

   One Foreign Ministry source said that Israel’s concern is that Lykketoft will have influence on other members of the EU. Denmark is slated to assume the rotating presidency of the EU in July 2002.

   Hansen rejected Gol’s argument that Lykketoft’s stand was an attempt to gain popularity in Denmark, and said that the foreign minister is not trying to win favor with Denmark’s growing and substantial Muslim population.

   One diplomatic official said that Lykketoft’s comments were the exception, and that Israel is still enjoying a sympathetic hearing in Europe following Friday night’s terror attack in Tel Aviv.

   No reaction on the episode was available yesterday from the Danish embassy in Tel Aviv.

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