As I tweeted,

The Olympic Committee of Israel announced yesterday that the sibling ice dancing pair of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky would represent the country at next month’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Alpine skier Mikahil Ranzin will round out Israel’s delegation to the Games, the committee said.

The Zaretskys put on an impressive show at this week’s European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, finishing 7th among 26 teams with 174.91 points after three days. The Olympic Committee requires candidate athletes to finish in the top 10 in order to qualify.

Source of the image and some more bio on them.

The only potential tzavarit, Tamar Katz, was disqualified by the IOC. But more likely by Avigdor Lieberman.

Kol hakavod and b’atzlecha to both Israeli and American athletes.  Oh yeah, also Canada. Oh, and P.S. The Zaretskys train in Jersey.  Just like The Situation and Pauly D do.

Usually, I read something interesting, I make a comment and cite a relevant paragraph with a link to the story. Now however, words fail me. I can go on and on about barbarity and inhumanity, but what the fuck… I have no words in response to this article about the particular torture that was reserved for Israelis and Jews by the Mumbai terrorists:

“Bombay has a long history of terror. I have seen bodies of riot victims, gang war and previous terror attacks like bomb blasts. But this was entirely different. It was shocking and disturbing,” a doctor said… The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: “Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,” he said… Corroborating the doctors’ claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. “During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis,” an IB source said… It is also said that the Israeli hostages were killed on the first day as keeping them hostage for too long would have focused too much international attention. “They also might have feared the chances of Israeli security agencies taking over the operations at the Nariman House,” he reasoned.

I feel sick to my stomach.