“Israeli reconnaissance flights over Syria revealed possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials estimate might have been supplied with material from North Korea.”

Possible? Estimate? Might? Jesus, if this report were any more tentative, it'd have crawled back up its own ass and disappeared.
Seriously, Michael, you've got the important work of stoking your readers' enthusiasm for the forthcoming assaults on Iran and Syria in front of you. I'm sure you can do better.

Perhaps poor Colin Powell can be resurrected to solemnly narrate another "mobile chemical weapons lab" slide show. You haven't mentioned Ahmadinejad now for...well, it seems like forever. Surely he's made some dopey remark you can report.

Oh, good news. I hear that Ming the Merciless has been seen chatting with Assad fils. You can bet they're up to no good!

Your report is more appropriate for Purim, when foolishness and pranking are expected, than Rosh Hashanah. Even a gentile knows that.

Shana tovah anyway.

Ismail

Wife keep you up all night snoring through her veil again?

Seriously, Michael, you've got the important work of stoking your readers' enthusiasm for the forthcoming assaults on Iran and Syria in front of you. I'm sure you can do better.

If you're going to make up my arguments for me, at least put some pizzazz into it. I don't think there are "forthcoming assaults," much less do I support them. You read my stuff pretty attentively, Is, you should know that.

Tell you what, though: For Sikkot, I'll link to a tapestry of Ahmadinejad releasing a thousand doves over the heads of Tehranese moppets. Just for you, big guy.

Shana tovah right back at ya.

After the WMD fiasco in Iraq I think I'm going to need more concrete evidence than is being provided.

Jewsish American neo-cons trying to bring down yet another of Israel's enemies (not America's, BTW). Anyone surprised?

I'm glad to know that you don't support further US aggression in the MidEast, and I regret attributing to you a position you don't in fact espouse. I think I was just generalizing from your baffling exertions in defense of the indefensible over there in Baghdad. I'll be more careful in the future.

Regarding unwarranted assumptions, do you imagine that all critics of Israel are Muslims? Or that anyone with the nom de keyboard "Ismail" must be? What else would account for the "veil" remark?

But mostly, what's with your obsession with my wife?

Ismail

I'm a critic of Israel, and I'm certainly not a Muslim. But consider: your frequent recourse to the outmoded yet giveaway term "Zionist," your defense of the odious Professor Finkelstein come hell or high water, your euphemisms with respect to Hamas. (You never answered my question, by the by: If the U.S. started releasing aid to Haniyah, wouldn't that make him a "quisling" the same as Abbas?)

Sorry if I misrepresent you, Ismail. But, as I've said, I do tend to suspect those who haven't got the courage of their convictions to come right out with their identities. So here's my question: why the nom de keyboard? And why the one you've chosen? (If I picked 'Arik' or 'Menachem' as mine, you might be entitled to an upward tilt of the eyebrow yourself.)

As for your wife, have I alluded to her before? Why "obsession"? You intrigue me, Ismail. Feel free to drop me a line at michael@jewcy.com. I'd be interested in chatting with you further without the unflattering spotlight of a comments section to blanch what might otherwise be a colorful correspondence.

Best,

Michael