Courtesy of Dan Friedman. Thank you, Dan.
1. Iran loses one of its
tentacles it meant to use to strangle Israel.
2. Having had one tentacle
amputated in Gaza, Iran is loathe to lose the other one in southern Lebanon.
3. Talk about "isolation." A
new calculus takes hold in Judea and Samaria. Fatah, the PA and Abbas know
they're living from day to day - by the good graces of the IDF.
4. With the pressure relaxed
on those fronts, Israel dusts off its plans to destroy Iran's nuclear
infrastructure.
5. Having successfully defied
Obama and his anti-Zionist cats-paws, Israel still has to respect the lame duck
snake, but can do so with greater confidence.
6. Any mention of returning to
the "peace process" becomes the punch line to thousands of bad jokes. Even unJew
Jon Stewart gets into the act.
7. The Arab World reads
Israel's message loud and clear. Your region has a new boss and he is Jewish.
Get used to it.
8. The Israeli Left and the
anti-Zionist Left in general suffer a devastating body blow. Thomas Friedman
goes back to writing about climate change, Peter Beinart gives a lecture to an
empty auditorium, and Haaretz is sold to the Onion.
9. J Street, the New Israel
Fund, B'Tselem et alia, are booted out of the "big tent" and told they will
never march in NYC's Israel Day Parade again. At the same time, Peter Gelb of
the Metropolitan Opera rewrites The Death of Klinghoffer and gives it a happy
ending. Klinghoffer takes out an Uzi and kills all the Muslim bastards before
they kill him. All performances are sold out even though the Times pans it.
10. George Soros dies in his
sleep from complications of self-hatred.