Tuesday, October 18, 2005

"At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, [the new US ambassador in Israel] Jones said that while in Lebanon, “the person calling for my head was Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hizballah, so I am not shy on taking on terror organizations.”" (By the way, Jones made this up. There is no evidence whatever that this is true. But you understand that he wanted to impress the congressional crowd.)