Putin works for peace and global security

Not content with selling nuclear fuel to Iran, Putin has recently decided to sell SA-18 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria and wants to sell armoured vehicles to the Palestinians. I suppose this is simply in keeping with a man who has suported a corrupt regime in the Ukraine, laid waste to Grozny and Chechnya and suppressed freedom of speech and democratic liberties in his own country. Just what credentials he thinks he has for hosting a Middle East Peace conference in Moscow are unclear.

Teenage Terrorists - Not interesting, apparently

While there's obviously time and space on the BBC's Middle East page for a rambling discussion on the construction of Israel's barrier in Jerusalem, a collection of lovely photos of a sandstorm in Iraq, and an oh-so-relevant article on the disappearance of Iranian cafes in Mumbai, there’s clearly no time to report on two Palestinian teenage terrorists, one 14 the other the grand old age of 15, caught by the IDF at a checkpoint near Jenin carrying eleven different explosives with instructions to blow up the soldiers stationed there. The BBC clearly doesn't feel this is as newsworthy as the 'aroma of freshly baked bread and sweet cake' in Mubai's Iranian Cafes. One of these boisterous whipper-snappers was recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades so it’s nice to see that Abbas has such full control over his own party’s various branches. The other little mass-murderer-wanna-be, working for Islamic Jihad, said ‘I wanted to destroy Israel’. Charming.

Grand Opening

Behold, the inauguration of the Cantankerous Camel, yet another embittered conservative fed up with this politically correct, marxist infested, US hating, Israel bashing, Islamic-Fundamentalist-loving, UN adoring, underdog-idolizing, morally ill world we all live in. If you're wondering about the future content of this blog, I guess I don't need to say much more. Read on...