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ALL I have been doing for the past few days is sleeping. OK, not straight, but a lot. I don't know why. Not eaten properly, just been "Log" (as Neil says).

Oh well. Off to genetics clinic at Barnet Hospital...

Living in the UK can sometimes turn you into a raving right winger on the Middle East.

"Hamas is directly elected, it's democracy, we have to deal with them!"

The Jewish Chronicle kindly posted some excerpts from the Hamas Charter this week:

( read here )

Yet the media here credulously repeat the lie that they're only opposed to Zionism, that they're becoming more "moderate", that Israel "has to negotiate". Like hell. I'm a believer in the two-state solution, if only because the alternative is Lebanon and look at how well THAT worked. The European left can fuck right off as far as I'm concerned.

Which reminds me... the cartoon row...
So ironic, and not in a good way, that the Arab media feel free to publish cartoons of blood sucking rabbis (some of the cartoons can JUST be passed off as "political satire", Der Sturmer caricatures notwithstanding, but plenty are plain anti-Semitism), publish the blood libel and make TV series about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but burn embassies when Europeans do the same. (BTW, the "offensive" cartoon on the cover of yesterday's Independent was absolutely nothing. I wonder if the Indy highlighted the mildest one it could find on purpose. Me, skeptical about the Indy? Never!)

The cartoons were offensive and unfunny, but the reaction to them is absolutely appalling. It has made it about free speech. Someone compared it to the New Statesman cover incident (the "Kosher Conspiracy" one), saying the editor apologised then--so wasn't that a prevention of free speech? It's not the same. No one went and burnt down offices or made death threats. If Arabs had written in to Jyllands-Posten, maybe it would be different. But when you react violently, then it's about forcibly shutting people up, which is a rather different matter.

(Grr, I'm being long-winded, but inarticulate. I hate that.)

Just took custard out of the oven, eyes lit on bottle of vanilla... and I realised I'd forgotten to add it!! DOH!