“European envoys” are crazy, and their countrymen are bigots:

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejected a European proposal to install an international monitoring team in Gaza to help maintain a cease-fire. “I don’t see how this can help,” she told a press conference in Jerusalem …

Of course a “monitoring team” can’t help. The very suggestion is ludicrous. Hamas isn’t going to obey a cease-fire — it didn’t obey a cease-fire, which is how this war got started — so the team would have nothing to monitor. But the Europeans know this. They just want the Jews to stop fighting back, lie down and die:

Protests against the Israeli military operation occurred Sunday in several European countries. In Greece, demonstrators set fire to banks, assaulted police with rocks and hurled shoes at the Israeli Embassy. From Paris to Poland, tens of thousands of protesters called for an end to the Israeli offensive.

They don’t throw rocks or hurl shoes when Hamas is lobbing rockets into Israel. We all know why.

Harry Reid & Co. are cock blocking.

Added. The Democrats, understandably, don’t want a crooked governor naming Barack Obama’s replacement in the Senate. But unless they can demonstrate that Roland Burris’ appointment is the product of a crime, they can’t refuse to seat him.

The problem isn’t race. The problem is poverty. But race is often a surrogate for poverty. And the poor don’t adhere to middle-class norms, which is why they’re poor.

Hamas requests an ass whippin.’ Israel will oblige.