Alzheimer Air: America's first black president belatedly takes to the skies, almost missing flight on Air Force One out of Israel

Well, what else could Obama do? Leave the first black president wandering aimlessly about the tarmac?

Bill and Barry had taken Air Force One to Shimon Peres' funeral, where both of them laboured to lard up the deceased mostly fabricated reputation as a "man of peace," an exercise in revisionism that did not go unnoticed even in mainstream news platforms.

But watch this charming interaction between America's first and second black presidents.

Bill! Let's go!

That video clip does a brilliant job in humanising two men who each have more blood on their hands than anybody who has sat in the dock at the ICC thus far.

New Egypt government rushes to secure borders... Israel's borders!

Less than a year after the Western-backed overthrow of the democratically elected Morsi government, the "new" democratically elected government of General Abdel al-Sisi isn't wasting any time showing who they're governing for.

Al-Sisi is rushing troops to the Israel-Egypt border to prevent terror attacks against Israel.

While preventing terror attacks against anyone is always a great idea, the optics in this case aren't going to endear the al-Sisi regime to the Egyptian masses who feel cheated out of their democratic franchise by the overthrow of Morsi.

They won't soon forget that both PM Netanyahu and President Peres wasted no time in congratulating al-Sisi on his election victory. The fact of a moderate Muslim being overthrown in favour of a Likud-friendly General has "blowback" written all over it.

We should understand by now that the surest way to guarantee the rise of extremism is to connive in the oppression of moderates.

Will we never learn?

Israel to help Arab neighbors fight terrorism

No, I'm not making that up; here's Pres. Peres quoted in the JPost yesterday;

He said he was certain, however, that if Israel and the Palestinians could resolve their conflict, Israel could be of help to the Palestinians and by extension to the rest of the Arab world in dealing with the problem of terrorism.

It may be uncouth to spell it out, but the man is well into his 91st year, and perhaps not all the marbles are rolling in the same direction anymore.

He was speaking on the occasion of a shadow-state visit by self-anointed US shadow Secretary of State Senator John McCain. As the second most popular American politician in Israel, McCain has assigned himself the task of following John Kerry around on his so-called peace initiative to make sure Kerry doesn't push Netanyahu into giving too much away.

And if that's not funny enough, Netanyahu reaffirmed the obvious in claiming yet again, in case anyone missed the previous ten thousand declarations of same, that Palestinian incitement is the main roadblock to peace. It's a vicious cycle; incitement - another couple hundred settler homes - more incitement - another few hundred settler homes, and so on for forty years now.

Obviously only a moron would expect this cycle to be unwound so long as there is no cessation of Palestinian incitement.

Alas, the Senator from Arizona, perhaps also showing a few signs of marble-management issues, was soon distracted by events in Iraq, claiming in the same brief presser that he was "even more troubled by al-Qaeda's reconquest of Falluja." 

He sees the American withdrawal from Iraq as having been a grave error. The very idea that democracy was going to flourish in an Arab land without US boots on the ground was wishful thinking of the highest order, as any Republican could see at the time.

Fortunately, once Kerry has this Abbas-Netanyahu framework agreement wrapped up, the IDF can start helping the Palestinians and other Arab neigbors fight terrorists. I'm guessing they'll start with Hamas and Hezbollah...

And then on to Falluja!

Shimon Peres breaks bread with Palestinian counterpart at Davos

Well there you go.  And here I thought Davos was all about the super-rich figuring out how to grab what's left of our pension plans and grind our wages down to Haitian levels.

But no, it's not just the World Economic Forum, it's the World Peace Forum too. Good things can happen when adversaries sit down for a meal.

"How do like the cous-cous Shimon?"

Not bad, Saalam, but I must say the tabouli is more to my liking."

"Now about that separation wall..."

"Fence! You mean fence..."

"Wall!"

"FENCE!"

"SECURITY!!..."

Time for Iran attack is now!

This years Herzliya Conference was more than anything an opportunity to bash Iran.

All the top guns from the IDF/Likud nexus tried to outdo one another with scary stories about the Iranian threat.

On Tuesday President Shimon Peres used his time at the microphone to remind the world that “evil and nuclear weapons must never be allowed to come together.”

On Wednesday IDF Chief Benny Gantz claimed that the Iran threat is now more threatening than ever.

Not to be outdone, Military Intelligence Chief Aviv Kochavi followed up with the claim that at any given moment more than 200,000 missiles are pointed at Israel, which explains why the folks at the conference are so skittish.

Kochavi went on to state that Iran already has enough material for not one, not two, but four nuclear weapons! Now that’s some serious threatening  threat. If we don’t act now, that number will be even higher next year!

And today, Deputy PM Moshe Yaalon revealed that Iran was developing missiles that could hit the continental USA! That’s just to spread the fear around a little bit. It’s not just Haifa and Tel Aviv that are vulnerable to the Persian peril, it’s Washington and Los Angeles and Houston too! If we wait too long they might even be able to hit Chicago and New Orleans.

So the message is clear; if we don’t attack Iran now, tomorrow could be too late.