Prediction

Don't put too much stock in this 'flying pigs' moment. Shimon Peres will revert back to form after a good night's rest:

President Shimon Peres believes there is no chance of an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

Peres, the one-time proponent of a "new Middle East" made this statement last Saturday at a dinner with the Jordanian and French ambassadors in Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Tel Aviv apartment.

At the end of the meal an argument erupted between the Jordanian envoy, Ali Ayed, and a well-known "dovish" attorney, who said Israel had no chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas' leadership. Barak supported his guest's hawkish stance. [I'm not sure I would call that 'hawkish' but this is Haaretz.... CiJ]

At a certain point, Peres intervened, surprising the participants by joining the attorney's prediction. "It would be very hard to reach an agreement," Peres said, due to the Hamas-Fatah split.

He said Abbas had no support among his people, no power to carry out security agreements and that any agreement Israel and the PA made crumbled a day later due to the PA's weakness. Therefore there is no chance of agreement, he summed.

Things are looking very grim for Ehud Olmert in the latest investigation of his corruption. If Olmert is convicted, I predict that he will be pardoned by Shimon Peres as a quid pro quo for Olmert's championing of Peres' pet project--the ceding of Israeli territory to its jihadist enemies.

Ehud Olmert is finding it hard to locate 250 Fatah terrorists to release who missed their targets and are therefore guilty only of attempted murder. The prisons have been emptied too many times before as "goodwill gestures."

So now he's found another loophole: set free pre-Oslo murderers. After all, Fatah renounced all violence at Oslo, so it makes sense that anything prior to Oslo doesn't really count. Certainly they wouldn't kill again after Fatah signed multiple contracts to stop.

Government Considering Release of Pre-Oslo Terrorists

The idea of including Palestinian prisoners with "blood on their hands" who carried out terrorist acts before the Oslo Accords were signed is being discussed in Jerusalem, to "raise the level" of the 250 security prisoners that Israel will release as a good will gesture toward Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

A ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet on Sunday, after the weekly cabinet meeting, to discuss which prisoners Israel will release.

Olmert said last month at the summit in Sharm e-Sheikh with Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Jordanian King Abdullah II that Israel would release 250 Fatah prisoners "without blood on their hands." The cabinet approved this in principle this past Sunday.

Drawing up the list, however, has proven more difficult than expected, because Olmert, according to government officials, does not just want to release Palestinian "rapists or thieves" from Israeli prisons, or security prisoners who are slated to be released within the next few months in any case. He is concerned that the release of these types of prisoners would not strengthen Abbas.

The government is willing to release security prisoners who took part in attacks that did not lead to any deaths, such as terrorists who shot at an IDF patrol, but missed.

Yet another reason for Israel to implement the death penalty for terrorists--left-wing governments won't later be able to release them.

Prediction: Releasing terrorist murderers will be easier in the future now that Shimon Peres has been made President by Olmert and company. Leftists don't need to tone down their true desires when they no longer face reelection. See, for example: Jimmy Carter, Avraham Burg and Ramsey Clark.

Connect these dots:

al-Qaeda has a safe haven in Pakistan, Waziristan, approximately the size of Israel

Tens of thousands from the UK visit Pakistan each year

UK asylum rules are so lax that the head of the Asylum Support Service stated that Osama bin Laden could be accepted (and immediately begin receiving welfare payments) among the large numbers of Arab refugees accepted by England

Fortunately UK counter-terror officials are waking up to the threat, although there are no signs of effective counter-terror actions:

Britain Now No. 1 Al-Qaeda Target

Britain has become the main target for a resurgent al-Qaeda, which has successfully regrouped and now presents a greater threat than ever before, according to counter-terrorist officials.

Intelligence experts fear that extremists are intent on carrying out a huge spectacular, on the scale of the U.S. atrocities in 2001.

UK Muslim Cop Excused From Protecting Israeli Embassy
His "moral objections" to protecting Israelis do not render him unfit to carry a gun, however. Obviously this will set a precedent. Prediction: there will be an incident of Muslim police refusing to come to the aid of Jews during an attack.

Oil Discovered in Dead Sea Area
If oil is running out, why hasn't its price increased in real terms in recent decades? It is very possible that everything you thought you know about oil is wrong. That would mean that the Arab oil weapon is really a dud.

The Jihad on King
CNN's outrageous smear on behalf of 9/11-denying Islamists

Halutz Fires Head of IDF Ground Forces
For speaking out