Sadly, in much of the middle east, serving a little time is the best possible outcome.  She’s lucky she wasn’t stoned to death.  Probably because she’s from the UK, and doesn’t have a family who would rather slaughter their daughter than put up with her evil ways.

Dubai jails UK woman for adultery – CNN.com

A British mother-of-two looks set to serve a three-month jail sentence for adultery after losing her appeal against the conviction in Dubai.

But an appeal court halved the six-month term initially imposed last November, the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed.

In many ways, I don’t have much to say about this.  While the attack itself was particularly…showy…it isn’t significantly different from anything in the past.

Honestly and truly, while I do believe that Israel has, from time to time, completely over-reacted, they’ve also show great restraint at other times.  This is made more amazing by the fact that the Palestinians can’t even promise not to launch attacks because of so many independent groups being armed.  The fact is, if some group we had screwed horribly with (say, blacks, or native americans) started launching attacks, the body count on their side would be 10 times what the Palestinians had experienced.

This is made all the sadder by the fact that this simply isn’t going to help the Palestinian cause at all.  It never does.

That said, this whole situation reminds me of a common joke used by comedians.   “Men, when it comes to dealing with your wife, you can either be right or you can be happy.”

This is a case of both sides wanting to be right, regardless of how miserable they get.