Well, this marks the last of my posts as last-minute guest editor of the Daily Shvitz. It's been fun. Thank you to Michael for inviting me to post. Thank you for reading. And wishing you all a happy Pesach.

I leave you with a symbol of the great relationship between our two nations. (Video via Stephen Pollard.)

I didn't know Rosie O'Donnell was an expert on military operations. According to her personal blog, Britain invaded Iranian waters as a pretext for a US-led invasion.

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities.

the british did it on purpose
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US MILITARY BUILD UP ON THE IRANIAN BORDER

I suppose the US and Britain also orchestrated the increasingly offensive campaign by the Iranians of forcing British service personnel to make televised confessions and apologies. I suppose Tony Blair's repeated and restrained calls for the release of his troops is just a smokescreen. Why did I not see all of this before?

Sculptor Cosimo Cavallero and his 6ft chocolate ChristCatholics are up in arms over a 6ft chocolate sculpture of Christ that will go on display in New York over Easter.

The work, called "My Sweet Lord," will be on view in a window of the Roger Smith Hotel's Lab Gallery on E. 47th Street. The sculpture is made of almost 200 pounds of dark chocolate.

According to the New York Daily News, because the statue is "anatomically correct" (which I think is shorthand for 'stark bollock naked') some Catholics believe it is in bad taste:

"It's an all-out war on Christianity," fumed Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. "They wouldn't show a depiction of Martin Luther King Jr. with genitals exposed on Martin Luther King Day, and they wouldn't show Muhammed depicted this way during Ramadan. It's always Christians, and the timing is deliberate."

Chocolate Christ sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro, who is himself a Catholic, said giving Jesus a loincloth would be "ridiculous."

"This person is talking from a very narrow window," he said of Donohue. "They're not allowing themselves to open their hearts. ... If it makes them feel better, I'll ask for their forgiveness and do 10 Hail Marys, but they should just lighten up and be more accepting of people."

March 2007 must be one of the worst months in recent history for the New York City Police Department. Despite figures released this week showing a further drop in crime, the city's cops keep coming under attack.

As if the death of two auxiliary officers in a Greenwich Village shooting wasn't enough, March has also witnessed the shooting of one officer in the foot and the stabbing of another officer in the head. Yesterday, an officer was attacked by a man wielding a railing from a hospital bed where he was supposed to be under guard.

Miguel Gabriel, 19, had his feet shackled and his arm cuffed to the bed, but he somehow managed to wrench the railing free, attacking officer Mikhail Vinitsky who was supposed to be guarding him.

Vinitsky tried to subdue Gabriel with pepper spray and a baton before finally drawing his gun and shooting him four times. According to the New York Daily News:

Even after Gabriel was shot, cops answering Vinitsky's radio call for help had to use a stun gun and pepper spray to subdue the attacker, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

"Even though he was shot, he was still standing, and fighting," Kelly said after visiting Vinitsky, who was in stable condition. He suffered a concussion and required six stitches to close a gash on his head, police said.

Gabriel was in stable condition at the same hospital.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, gave a short but blistering speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council recently:

Faced with compelling reports from around the world of torture, persecution, and violence against women, what has the Council pronounced, and what has it decided?

Nothing. Its response has been silence. Its response has been indifference. Its response has been criminal.

One might say, in Harry Truman's words, that this has become a Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing Council.

But that would be inaccurate. This Council has, after all, done something.

It has enacted one resolution after another condemning one single state: Israel. In eight pronouncements — and there will be three more this session — Hamas and Hezbollah have been granted impunity. The entire rest of the world — millions upon millions of victims, in 191 countries — continue to go ignored.

[...]Let us consider the past few months. More than 130 Palestinians were killed by Palestinian forces. This is three times the combined total that were the pretext for calling special sessions in July and November. Yet the champions of Palestinian rights — Ahmadinejad, Assad, Khaddafi, John Dugard — they say nothing...Why has this Council chosen silence?

Because Israel could not be blamed. Because, in truth, the dictators who run this Council couldn't care less about Palestinians, or about any human rights.

Needless to say the speech, which you can read in full here or watch here, did not go down well. Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba refused to "express thanks" for the statement, ruled the remarks inadmissible to the official record and banned further statements "in similar tones."

His response has been taken to task on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun today.

"When it comes to actual human rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council reflexively discharges obfuscation, like a squid and its ink," says the Journal. While the Sun points out that Mr de Alba has previously thanked a Zimbabwean speaker for denying human rights abuses under President Mugabe and a Sudanese delegation for saying reports of violence against women in Darfur were exaggerated.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But it seems that as far as human rights go, they end when you criticize the United Nations Human Rights Council.