First Israel kneecaps Joe Biden by announcing a settlement expansion on the day Biden arrives to restart peace talks. Then Biden shows up 90 minutes late to dinner at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house. Did he bring wine? Probably not.

Two of the 26-strong Israeli hit squad who killed a Hamas leader in Dubai (while wearing silly wigs, glasses and fake moustaches) apparently entered the United States on false passports after the killing. So much diplomatic fun! [Times of London]

Stephen Walt has advice for people who plan on writing something controversial (critical of Israel), on dealing with the reaction you'll receive from certain people (The New Republic). It is sort of the foreign policy version of this.

There was quite a hullabaloo over the the possible awkwardness of an Israeli brother/sister Ice Dancing team dancing sensually to Schindler's List. So-much-so that NBC didn't even air it last night. Well just how tawdry was it? Video inside.

Dubai authorities have released video of an 11-member assassination team (likely Israeli) before, during, and after they killed a Hamas official last month, as caught by surveillance cameras at the airport, malls, and hotel rooms. It's like Munich, but real.

Tony Judt's never been one to stand down. The Jewish, British, leftist historian and professor who's been called a self-hating antisemitic terrorist-sympathizer and a liberal-hater isn't one to back down. Ravaged by Lou Gehrig's disease, he's not pussying out, either.

In the United States, the "War on Christmas" is a weird fantasy in which people pretend that the mere acknowledgment of other religious/ethnic traditions is an attack on Christianity/American Values. In Israel, though, the War on Christmas is real.

Whatever happens at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen next week, we can be sure of one result: the entire event will be hijacked by bad actors spreading lies that will become conventional wisdom.

Two fun facts on stylish Jersey-Shore-via-Tehran Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 1. He might be Jewish. 2. Iran is now definitely capable of producing a working nuclear bomb that could basically wipe his maybe-Yid Israeli relatives out of existence. Fun!

Human Rights Watch has suspended a senior military analyst because he has the slightly odd hobby—given his day job—of collecting Nazi relics.

Heidi Montag wants to be impregnated. Bethenny Frankel wants new friends. And Martha's Vineyard wants to see Chelsea Clinton wear white. Good morning! It's Monday's Gossip Roundup!

This evening, a gunman opened fire on a Tel Aviv recreation center/cafe dedicated to supporting the area's gay community. Reports now list three dead, twelve injured, and most targets minors. And there's no question that this was a hate crime.

It wouldn't be a Sacha Baron Cohen movie without a lawsuit from a duped interview subject—this time it's from a Palestinian who claims he was wrongly identified as a terrorist. And the real terrorists are making vague threats.

[A man marches, along with 2,000 other Israelis, in the Jerusalem gay pride parade today; image via AP]

Terrorists maybe tried to assassinate Jimmy Carter in Gaza today. Whatever happened, he's fine now.

[Palestinian men performing Muslim early morning prayers after crossing from the West Bank town of Qalqilya to work in Israel this morning at an Army Checkpoint. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech today calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state. Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images.]

Filmmaker who documented Obama-hating Israelis has made a counterpoint about peacenik Israelis who love Obama.

So you think you've had a bad day? Well what about the woman who tried to help her mother by purchasing her a new mattress, only to learn the old one she threw out had a million bucks stuffed inside?!

An Israeli TV star with the improbably hilarious name of Dudu Topaz has been arrested on suspicion that he organized a series of attacks on his enemies in the TV industry. Three vicious incidents have been blamed on "The Ratings King" and his nefarious team of security men.