Remember the movie "Not Without My Daughter" where Sally Field played an American who worked desperately to take her daughter away from her lying husband and out of Iran?  She was the hero, if I remember correctly.  Unfortunately, when an Israeli Jew finds themselves in the same situation, they become a villian.

Jewish Group Snatches Girl in West Bank Raid

Members of a Jewish group this week snatched a 6-year-old girl who was born to a Jewish mother but lived with her Palestinian father in the West Bank.

Sounds pretty evil and unfair, right?  More Israeli oppression of Palestinians, right?  Let's dig a little deeper....

The mother told Yad L'achim that her husband had pretended to be a French-American Jew, the organization said. She said she hadn't known that her husband was already married and that after their wedding, she wasn't allowed to leave the house.

Yad L'achim said the woman had left her husband and taken her daughter to live in the Israeli city of Ashdod in June this year, but that her husband had subsequently come and taken the daughter back with him to Tulkarm.

Shouldn't the headline have been "Kidnapped Jewish Girl Returned Safely to Mother"?

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I have an exit strategy for Iraq - take all our troops out and send them to Darfur.  The Iraqis should have been ready to take over their own country awhile ago and who can argue about the greater humanitarian need in Darfur?  No cut and run, just a redeployment to more pressing, morally defensible needs.

We'd still be f*cked in the long run, but it would look like a huge change in policy for Bush.

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Good riddance - Billionaire liberal financier George Soros, who spent millions of his fortune trying to oust President Bush in 2004, yesterday said he hopes to stay out of politics from now on.

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"We did not fight back in the same way that the British fought the IRA or the Spanish government fought the Basques here. Terrorism is a manageable action. It can be lived with." - Oliver Stone.  I hope I don't have to explain why provincial organizations like the IRA and ETA are not al-Qaeda.

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The first two episodes of Studio 60 dealt with the courage that the show's prodcuers needed to broadcast a comedy skit called "Crazy Christians". Oooh how dangerous and cutting edge....and how '80s!  How about fictionalizing the reaction to a skit called "Those Crazy Muslims".