Another nomination...

...for Warderro's Yehuda HaKohen Award. For anyone who still recalls the Eshleman Hall fiasco (for the record, this is a poorly written article) in November, Yehuda HaKohen is a founding member of the Zionist Freedom Alliance, a bay area organization devoted to the fundamentalist Greater Israel ideology, but which cloaks itself in a kind of Fanonian, revolutionary rhetoric of self-determination and aims to mobilize students on college campuses for its cause. But enough with the background. Goldblog just posted another condemnation of the settler movement, which is enraged over Obama's courageous call for a halt to all settlement construction in the West Bank. I'd say these kind of extremist comments are deserving of Warderro's nomination:

"The demand to prevent natural growth in settlements is unreasonable and is akin to Pharaoh's demand that all firstborn sons be thrown into the Nile River," said Science and Technology Minister Daniel Hershkowitz ahead of Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting.

I'll let Goldberg dissect the ludicrousy of that statement. Another important point that Jeffrey makes and that many hardline US and Israeli Jews need to come to terms with:

Since the United States partially underwrites Israel, it has the right to make certain demands.

YES. Any government (including the Palestinian Authority) that the US gives foreign aid to should expect there to be strings attached. If the government doesn't like the conditions, they don't have to take the money. End of story.