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 Chutzpah:

1. unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall

2. audacity, nerve

Last weekend, the Sunday Times of London leaked an EU  report that accused the (so-called) Palestinians of “significant shortcomings” (in other words, wasted through corruption) in the  close to 2.7 billion dollars in aid they had received.

Via The Times of Israel — EU accuses Palestinians of wasting €2 billion in aid

…According to the article, in Britain’s Sunday Times, the European Court of Auditors (ECA), an EU organ set up in 1975 to audit the EU’s income and spending, found that Europe had little control over €1.95 billion ($2.64 billion) spent in the West Bank and Gaza between 2008 and 2012, noting “significant shortcomings….”

Transparency International, a Berlin-based watchdog monitoring corporate and political corruption, claimed that the state of paralysis afflicting the Palestinian parliament since 2007 has “given the executive unlimited management over public funds.” Nepotism is also commonplace in the Palestinian public and private sectors, the organization claimed….

Meanwhile, that same weekend, Palestinian President Abbas blamed Palestinian economic difficulties on …. yes, you guess it: The Joooos!

Via Israel National News — Abbas: We Can’t Pay Salaries, and it’s All Israel’s Fault

…In an interview with official television, Abbas expressed concern that the PA would not be able to pay salaries for its employees in November but, as he usually does, found who to blame for it: the Israeli “occupation”. “The economic situation is really difficult, and the main reason is the Israeli occupation,” Abbas said. “Israel exploits our resources and lands which increased our economic deficit,” charged Abbas, who said that his minister of finance, Shukri Bishara, had informed him that the government would not be able to pay salaries unless international aid arrives….

Paranoia:

1. Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.

2. baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.

Via The Blaze — Bizarre Claim: Israel Planted Chip in Brain of Muslim Brotherhood Spiritual Leader

A friend of Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Youssef al-Qaradawi is making the wild claim that Israel planted a chip in the radical cleric’s brain and is engaging in mind control. According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Egyptian actor Hassan Youssef is a personal friend of the radical Muslim cleric. In a video clip from Egyptian television, translated by MEMRI, the actor explained why he believes that the al-Qaradawi seen these days is not actually the really al-Qaradawi, and it’s all because of Israel.

Insanity:

1. severe mental illness; the condition of being insane

2. something that is very foolish or unreasonable

Via FrontPage Mag —  Iranian Ayatollah Claims Jews Invented Buddhism

I read this article ten times, and I still cannot follow the “logic” of this Ayatollah.

Maybe because this guy is, well, insane….

Here’s an excerpt:

In an August 8, 2012 interview with the Rasa news agency titled “The Cruel Genocide Against The Muslim People In Myanmar,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Qarehi, head of the Imam Mahdi seminary in Tehran, said: “The genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar is ostensibly being carried out by the Buddhists, but we are certain that Judaism and Global Zionism are [behind] the massacre and the genocide against the Muslims… The tenets of Buddhism are derived from Judaism. The Buddhists are a tool [in the hands] of the Jews, and ‘Buddhism’ is a name behind which [hides] the hand of Judaism and Global Zionism.