I take back all the snarky comments I made about the Wall Street Journal lately

It turns out I’m among their OpinionJournal’s “Our Favorite Sites.” I don’t know how long it has been up, but I just noticed this list. I recommend it – not particularly for the blogs, which doubtless will be familiar to readers here, but as a valuable selection of news links, several of which I didn’t know. [What? No Debkafile? -ed. No guts, no glory.]

Speaking of Debka, their ticker is reporting that Abu Mazen will not be coming to the White House this month. How could there be a problem? Richard Gere has declared this is a ‘special moment‘ for the Israelis and Palestinians to make peace (from Haaretz ticker).