"Peru sets potato exhibition" (thanks Maryellen)

"But he has stopped short of supporting Schakowsky and Senator Bernie Sanders's legislation seeking a ban on using Blackwater and other armed contracting companies in Iraq. One of his top foreign policy advisers told The Nation earlier this year that Obama "can't rule out [and] won't rule out" using these companies in Iraq."

Who says Arab royalty are not talented? "The reclusive singer is alleged to have accepted the huge sum to sing tracks composed by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hamad Bin Isa Khalifa." (thanks Ibrahim)

What on earth is "founding director of the Center for Middle East Research, 1992"??

"The applied research institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) reported that Israel, since the Annapolis conference held in October last year, has embarked on building tens of thousands of settlement units in the West Bank and demolished 90 Palestinian houses at the pretext of illegal construction."
"As Mahmud Darwish had written:
"All that you have done
to our people is
registered in notebooks."

"Södertälje, just south of Stockholm, are being subjected to harassment and hate crimes, according to police." (thanks Ali)

""Barack Obama had to make a choice between his Jewish supporters and his anti-Israel supporters like Jimmy Carter, and he did not choose Jimmy Carter. And that was an embarrassment for Jimmy Carter and a show of disrespect. And I'm very glad he made that decision. It was a good decision, a wise decision, a moral decision."" For Dershowitz to speak on morality is like Larry Flynt talking about good taste. (thanks Naseer)