While the planet appears to be sliding backwards, Israel continues to inspire, and it appears that nothing can stop the forward movement. Let them march on Jerusalem. Israel marches on and holds up a shining light for humanity to follow.
1."India and Israel are ideal partners"
"In an era of rapid urban growth, there is great potential in cooperation between Israel and India, since Israel is a very urbanized country with a strong urban infrastructure," Indian Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath told "Globes" in an exclusive interview, during a visit to Israel to promote joint projects. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000732024&fid=1124
2.IAF, Polish Air Force hold joint exercise
Fighter pilots from the Israeli and Polish air forces will on Thursday complete a week of joint exercises which were held nine years after the Israeli air force held a flyby over Auschwitz. The cooperation is the first of its kind between the two military forces and it included such tasks as mock attacks and interceptions where the sides took turns as attacker and defender.
COMMENT: Recently Israel and Italy combined air drills. Looks like Israel is being integrated into NATO, despite Turkish objections.
3.Intel, GE Healthcare set up joint Israel tech centre
Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) and GE Healthcare have set up a joint technology evaluation laboratory in Israel. The new lab is located at GE Healthcare premises in Tirat Carmel, close to Intel Israel's R&D center at Haifa's Matam High-Tech Park. Managers and employees from both companies will work together to align and optimize their products, such as Intel's microprocessors and GE Healthcare's ultrasound diagnostic imaging systems.
4.Sony targets Israeli medical technologies
Sources inform ''Globes'' that Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE; TSE: 6758) is actively seeking to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Israeli medical technologies. The company has established a team to review the Israeli market to seek out companies for investment or acquisition. The team has already held intensive meetings with Israeli venture capital funds and companies. This is the first time that Sony has operated in such a manner and if the process is successful, the company's acquired or in the investment portfolio may form the basis for a Sony development center in Israel.
5.Telefonica to set up start up incubator in Israel
Sources inform ''Globes'' that Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica SA is due to set up a start up incubator in Israel. The company has a positive history in Israel, including a good return on its investment in Amobee Inc., which was sold a few weeks ago for over $300 million. Headquartered in Madrid, Telefonica's collaborators in Israel include Amdocs Ltd. and several telecommunications start-ups. Telefonica is the world's third-largest telecommunications carrier, with 306 million subscribers, two-thirds of whom are in Latin America.
6.Palestinian and Israeli Farmers Participate in Joint Conference for Improvement of Gazan Economy
On March 2012, more than 30,000 farmers from all over the world attended the 26th agricultural exhibition in Tel-Aviv. A delegation from the Gaza Strip was among the participants. During the exhibition, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) also arranged training workshops for the Palestinian farmers.
7.Israeli Device Takes the Thirst Out of War Zones
Supplying water in battle zones is expensive and sometimes deadly. Armies around the world spend millions of dollars transporting water to thirsty troops on the front lines, often under extremely dangerous conditions. Arye Kohavi: "Convoys are attacked during the water transportation and we can produce the water on spot where it's needed, we are saving all the logistic footprint of bringing the water." Arye Kohavi, the CEO of Israeli tech firm Water-Gen says instead of transporting water into conflict zones - he has developed a portable device that can simply make it out of air. Check out video www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=israeli-device-takes-the-2012-03-07
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
— Author Unknown
Friday, March 30, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
My friend Bill says "As long as one candle burns in the darkness, the truth will not be extinguished". One of those candles is Irishman Nicky Larkin. Nicky arrived in Israel to make a pro-palestinian film. These are the results.
Nicky Larkin: Israel is a refuge, but a refuge under siege
Through making a film about the Israeli-Arab conflict, artist Nicky Larkin found his allegiances swaying
I used to hate Israel. I used to think the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian terrorists. Now I see why Israel has to be hard. Now I see the Left can be Right -- as in right-wing. So why did I change my mind so completely?
Strangely, it began with my anger at Israel's incursion into Gaza in December 2008 which left over 1,200 Palestinians dead, compared to only 13 Israelis. I was so angered by this massacre I posed in the striped scarf of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation for an art show catalogue.
Shortly after posing in that PLO scarf, I applied for funding from the Irish Arts Council to make a film in Israel and Palestine. I wanted to talk to these soldiers, to challenge their actions -- and challenge the Israeli citizens who supported them.
I spent seven weeks in the area, dividing my time evenly between Israel and the West Bank. I started in Israel. The locals were suspicious. We were Irish -- from a country which is one of Israel's chief critics -- and we were filmmakers. We were the enemy.
Then I crossed over into the West Bank. Suddenly, being Irish wasn't a problem. Provo graffiti adorned The Wall. Bethlehem was Las Vegas for Jesus-freaks -- neon crucifixes punctuated by posters of martyrs.
These martyrs followed us throughout the West Bank. They watched from lamp-posts and walls wherever we went. Like Jesus in the old Sacred Heart pictures.
But the more I felt the martyrs watching me, the more confused I became. After all, the Palestinian mantra was one of "non-violent resistance". It was their motto, repeated over and over like responses at a Catholic mass.
Yet when I interviewed Hind Khoury, a former Palestinian government member, she sat forward angrily in her chair as she refused to condemn the actions of the suicide bombers. She was all aggression.
This aggression continued in Hebron, where I witnessed swastikas on a wall. As I set up my camera, an Israeli soldier shouted down from his rooftop position. A few months previously I might have ignored him as my political enemy. But now I stopped to talk. He only talked about Taybeh, the local Palestinian beer.
Back in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011, I began to listen more closely to the Israeli side. I remember one conversation in Shenkin Street -- Tel Aviv's most fashionable quarter, a street where everybody looks as if they went to art college. I was outside a cafe interviewing a former soldier.
He talked slowly about his time in Gaza. He spoke about 20 Arab teenagers filled with ecstasy tablets and sent running towards the base he'd patrolled. Each strapped with a bomb and carrying a hand-held detonator.
The pills in their bloodstream meant they felt no pain. Only a headshot would take them down.
Conversations like this are normal in Tel Aviv. I began to experience the sense of isolation Israelis feel. An isolation that began in the ghettos of Europe and ended in Auschwitz.
Israel is a refuge -- but a refuge under siege, a refuge where rockets rain death from the skies. And as I made the effort to empathise, to look at the world through their eyes. I began a new intellectual journey. One that would not be welcome back home.
The problem began when I resolved to come back with a film that showed both sides of the coin. Actually there are many more than two. Which is why my film is called Forty Shades of Grey. But only one side was wanted back in Dublin. My peers expected me to come back with an attack on Israel. No grey areas were acceptable.
An Irish artist is supposed to sign boycotts, wear a PLO scarf, and remonstrate loudly about The Occupation. But it's not just artists who are supposed to hate Israel. Being anti-Israel is supposed to be part of our Irish identity, the same way we are supposed to resent the English.
But hating Israel is not part of my personal national identity. Neither is hating the English. I hold an Irish passport, but nowhere upon this document does it say I am a republican, or a Palestinian.
My Irish passport says I was born in 1983 in Offaly. The Northern Troubles were something Anne Doyle talked to my parents about on the nine o'clock News. I just wanted to watch Father Ted.
So I was frustrated to see Provo graffiti on the wall in the West Bank. I felt the same frustration emerge when I noticed the missing 'E' in a "Free Palestin" graffiti on a wall in Cork. I am also frustrated by the anti-Israel activists' attitude to freedom of speech.
Free speech must work both ways. But back in Dublin, whenever I speak up for Israel, the Fiachras and Fionas look at me aghast, as if I'd pissed on their paninis.
This one-way freedom of speech spurs false information. The Boycott Israel brigade is a prime example. They pressurised Irish supermarkets to remove all Israeli produce from their shelves -- a move that directly affected the Palestinian farmers who produce most of their fruit and vegetables under the Israeli brand.
But worst of all, this boycott mentality is affecting artists. In August 2010, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign got 216 Irish artists to sign a pledge undertaking to boycott the Israeli state. As an artist I have friends on this list -- or at least I had.
I would like to challenge my friends about their support for this boycott. What do these armchair sermonisers know about Israel? Could they name three Israeli cities, or the main Israeli industries?
But I have more important questions for Irish artists. What happened to the notion of the artist as a free thinking individual? Why have Irish artists surrendered to group-think on Israel? Could it be due to something as crude as career-advancement?
Artistic leadership comes from the top. Aosdana, Ireland's State-sponsored affiliation of creative artists, has also signed the boycott. Aosdana is a big player. Its members populate Arts Council funding panels.
Some artists could assume that if their name is on the same boycott sheet as the people assessing their applications, it can hardly hurt their chances. No doubt Aosdana would dispute this assumption. But the perception of a preconceived position on Israel is hard to avoid.
Looking back now over all I have learnt, I wonder if the problem is a lot simpler.
Perhaps our problem is not with Israel, but with our own over-stretched sense of importance -- a sense of moral superiority disproportional to the importance of our little country?
Any artist worth his or her salt should be ready to change their mind on receipt of fresh information. So I would urge every one of those 216 Irish artists who pledged to boycott the Israeli state to spend some time in Israel and Palestine. Maybe when you come home you will bin your scarf. I did.
Nicky Larkin's 'Forty Shades of Grey' will premiere in Dublin in May;
We welcome you Nicky to our world of truth and integrity. The more people who light candles, the brighter the light will be.
Nicky Larkin: Israel is a refuge, but a refuge under siege
Through making a film about the Israeli-Arab conflict, artist Nicky Larkin found his allegiances swaying
I used to hate Israel. I used to think the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian terrorists. Now I see why Israel has to be hard. Now I see the Left can be Right -- as in right-wing. So why did I change my mind so completely?
Strangely, it began with my anger at Israel's incursion into Gaza in December 2008 which left over 1,200 Palestinians dead, compared to only 13 Israelis. I was so angered by this massacre I posed in the striped scarf of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation for an art show catalogue.
Shortly after posing in that PLO scarf, I applied for funding from the Irish Arts Council to make a film in Israel and Palestine. I wanted to talk to these soldiers, to challenge their actions -- and challenge the Israeli citizens who supported them.
I spent seven weeks in the area, dividing my time evenly between Israel and the West Bank. I started in Israel. The locals were suspicious. We were Irish -- from a country which is one of Israel's chief critics -- and we were filmmakers. We were the enemy.
Then I crossed over into the West Bank. Suddenly, being Irish wasn't a problem. Provo graffiti adorned The Wall. Bethlehem was Las Vegas for Jesus-freaks -- neon crucifixes punctuated by posters of martyrs.
These martyrs followed us throughout the West Bank. They watched from lamp-posts and walls wherever we went. Like Jesus in the old Sacred Heart pictures.
But the more I felt the martyrs watching me, the more confused I became. After all, the Palestinian mantra was one of "non-violent resistance". It was their motto, repeated over and over like responses at a Catholic mass.
Yet when I interviewed Hind Khoury, a former Palestinian government member, she sat forward angrily in her chair as she refused to condemn the actions of the suicide bombers. She was all aggression.
This aggression continued in Hebron, where I witnessed swastikas on a wall. As I set up my camera, an Israeli soldier shouted down from his rooftop position. A few months previously I might have ignored him as my political enemy. But now I stopped to talk. He only talked about Taybeh, the local Palestinian beer.
Back in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011, I began to listen more closely to the Israeli side. I remember one conversation in Shenkin Street -- Tel Aviv's most fashionable quarter, a street where everybody looks as if they went to art college. I was outside a cafe interviewing a former soldier.
He talked slowly about his time in Gaza. He spoke about 20 Arab teenagers filled with ecstasy tablets and sent running towards the base he'd patrolled. Each strapped with a bomb and carrying a hand-held detonator.
The pills in their bloodstream meant they felt no pain. Only a headshot would take them down.
Conversations like this are normal in Tel Aviv. I began to experience the sense of isolation Israelis feel. An isolation that began in the ghettos of Europe and ended in Auschwitz.
Israel is a refuge -- but a refuge under siege, a refuge where rockets rain death from the skies. And as I made the effort to empathise, to look at the world through their eyes. I began a new intellectual journey. One that would not be welcome back home.
The problem began when I resolved to come back with a film that showed both sides of the coin. Actually there are many more than two. Which is why my film is called Forty Shades of Grey. But only one side was wanted back in Dublin. My peers expected me to come back with an attack on Israel. No grey areas were acceptable.
An Irish artist is supposed to sign boycotts, wear a PLO scarf, and remonstrate loudly about The Occupation. But it's not just artists who are supposed to hate Israel. Being anti-Israel is supposed to be part of our Irish identity, the same way we are supposed to resent the English.
But hating Israel is not part of my personal national identity. Neither is hating the English. I hold an Irish passport, but nowhere upon this document does it say I am a republican, or a Palestinian.
My Irish passport says I was born in 1983 in Offaly. The Northern Troubles were something Anne Doyle talked to my parents about on the nine o'clock News. I just wanted to watch Father Ted.
So I was frustrated to see Provo graffiti on the wall in the West Bank. I felt the same frustration emerge when I noticed the missing 'E' in a "Free Palestin" graffiti on a wall in Cork. I am also frustrated by the anti-Israel activists' attitude to freedom of speech.
Free speech must work both ways. But back in Dublin, whenever I speak up for Israel, the Fiachras and Fionas look at me aghast, as if I'd pissed on their paninis.
This one-way freedom of speech spurs false information. The Boycott Israel brigade is a prime example. They pressurised Irish supermarkets to remove all Israeli produce from their shelves -- a move that directly affected the Palestinian farmers who produce most of their fruit and vegetables under the Israeli brand.
But worst of all, this boycott mentality is affecting artists. In August 2010, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign got 216 Irish artists to sign a pledge undertaking to boycott the Israeli state. As an artist I have friends on this list -- or at least I had.
I would like to challenge my friends about their support for this boycott. What do these armchair sermonisers know about Israel? Could they name three Israeli cities, or the main Israeli industries?
But I have more important questions for Irish artists. What happened to the notion of the artist as a free thinking individual? Why have Irish artists surrendered to group-think on Israel? Could it be due to something as crude as career-advancement?
Artistic leadership comes from the top. Aosdana, Ireland's State-sponsored affiliation of creative artists, has also signed the boycott. Aosdana is a big player. Its members populate Arts Council funding panels.
Some artists could assume that if their name is on the same boycott sheet as the people assessing their applications, it can hardly hurt their chances. No doubt Aosdana would dispute this assumption. But the perception of a preconceived position on Israel is hard to avoid.
Looking back now over all I have learnt, I wonder if the problem is a lot simpler.
Perhaps our problem is not with Israel, but with our own over-stretched sense of importance -- a sense of moral superiority disproportional to the importance of our little country?
Any artist worth his or her salt should be ready to change their mind on receipt of fresh information. So I would urge every one of those 216 Irish artists who pledged to boycott the Israeli state to spend some time in Israel and Palestine. Maybe when you come home you will bin your scarf. I did.
Nicky Larkin's 'Forty Shades of Grey' will premiere in Dublin in May;
We welcome you Nicky to our world of truth and integrity. The more people who light candles, the brighter the light will be.
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Peanut Gallery
Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant.
1.Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and other leaders were eliminated in an Israeli drone attack on Friday. Also killed was a terrorist freed in the Gilad Shalit deal. PG: Not so easy to effect a second holocaust, is it? These Jews hit back! Al-Qaisi was responsible for the Gilad Shalit abduction. Now, what is left of him is searching for non-existent virgins. You can run but you cannot hide. The rocket fire was initiated by Islamic Jihad, the Iranian arm in Gaza.
2.Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: "I salute all the people of the Arab Spring, or rather the Islamic Winter," Haniyeh told several thousand cheering people who attended a rally in support of the Palestinians and Syrians. "I salute the heroic Syrian people, who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," he added. PG: So now the mist clears. The Islamic Winter is the emergence of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood revolution, supported by Al Qaieda, Hamas, Egyptiam MB, Tunisian MB, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and most of Europe. And the slogan is "Freedom, democracy and reform". There is no cure for stupidity.
3.The United Nations Security Council condemned "in the strongest terms" the terrorist attack against Israeli diplomats in New Delhi, India and the attempted attack in Georgia's capital Tbilisi. PG: These guys must have been smoking something. The first condemnation of terror against Israeli's in seven years. Possibly the seven good years are ahead of us. Don't believe it.
4.A barrage of explosions and drive-by shootings killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds across Iraq on Thursday, in one of the bloodiest episodes to follow the U.S. military withdrawal from the country. By nightfall, security officials said at least 70 people had been killed and 374 wounded, with well over half of the casualties in Baghdad. PG: The battle for strategic control over the Straits of Hormuz continues. And Obama still thinks Afghanistan is more important than Iraq?
5. Khaled Abu Toameh: On the first anniversary of the "Arab Spring," many Arabs are beginning to wonder whether they would soon start missing the corrupt dictators who ruled them for the past few decades. The "Arab Spring" was supposed to bring democracy, transparency and reform to the Arab world. It was supposed to end human rights violations and see the birth of a free and independent media.The "Arab Spring" was supposed to promote the rights of women and minorities in the Arab world and encourage young Arabs and Muslims to abandon extremist views and terrorism.The "Arab Spring" was supposed to be led by young and charismatic Western-educated activists who would bring moderation and pragmatism to the Arab world. The "Arab Spring" was supposed to turn the Arab countries into attraction for tourism and investors from all around the world. PG: An unmitigated humanitarian disaster born out of a culture of hatred and fear.
6.Egypt's parliament moved Sunday toward a vote to order an end to more than $1 billion in US aid, a reflection of tensions with Washington over the case of Americans charged with illegal activity by their pro-democracy groups. PG: As mentioned before in this blog, American aid to Egypt is a pittance compared to aid from the gulf countries. How's all of this working out for you Obama? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4201552,00.html
7.China swung to a massive trade deficit in February, due partly to seasonal distortions but also to faltering demand for the country's exports. The weak export performance comes on top of a raft of disappointing economic data on Friday that economists said will add to the likelihood of additional easing by the central bank and other policy makers. China posted a trade deficit of $31.48 billion in February after reporting a $27.28 billion surplus in January. PG: China has currency reserves of $3 Trillion. A few billion here or there won't worry them too much.
8.The Food and Drug Administration raised safety concerns about the popular class of cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins, warning that patients taking the drugs may face a "small increased risk" of higher blood sugar levels and of being diagnosed with diabetes. The drugs that will get the warning include top-selling brand names such as Lipitor, Lescol, Pravachol, Crestor, Mevacor, Altoprev, Livalo and Zocor. PG: Makes one feel like Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
9.Gina Godfrey has a new blog by name "Gina's Weighty Matters". In her latest blog, discussing coffee she says "But it is the antioxidants in coffee, not caffeine, which has people really enthused. There is lots of data now that found that women who consumed 4 cups of coffee per day had a 20% reduction in risk for basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer. Another study found a decrease in certain breast cancers in women who drank 5 cups or more a day. There are lots of positive studies out there which says coffee lowers risk on Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and gallstones. Who would have thunk it?... and lab testing found that coffee has "much more antioxidants than most vegetables and fruits". Read more http://gina-godfrey.blogspot.com/
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change - Laurence J. Peter
1.Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and other leaders were eliminated in an Israeli drone attack on Friday. Also killed was a terrorist freed in the Gilad Shalit deal. PG: Not so easy to effect a second holocaust, is it? These Jews hit back! Al-Qaisi was responsible for the Gilad Shalit abduction. Now, what is left of him is searching for non-existent virgins. You can run but you cannot hide. The rocket fire was initiated by Islamic Jihad, the Iranian arm in Gaza.
2.Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: "I salute all the people of the Arab Spring, or rather the Islamic Winter," Haniyeh told several thousand cheering people who attended a rally in support of the Palestinians and Syrians. "I salute the heroic Syrian people, who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," he added. PG: So now the mist clears. The Islamic Winter is the emergence of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood revolution, supported by Al Qaieda, Hamas, Egyptiam MB, Tunisian MB, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and most of Europe. And the slogan is "Freedom, democracy and reform". There is no cure for stupidity.
3.The United Nations Security Council condemned "in the strongest terms" the terrorist attack against Israeli diplomats in New Delhi, India and the attempted attack in Georgia's capital Tbilisi. PG: These guys must have been smoking something. The first condemnation of terror against Israeli's in seven years. Possibly the seven good years are ahead of us. Don't believe it.
4.A barrage of explosions and drive-by shootings killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds across Iraq on Thursday, in one of the bloodiest episodes to follow the U.S. military withdrawal from the country. By nightfall, security officials said at least 70 people had been killed and 374 wounded, with well over half of the casualties in Baghdad. PG: The battle for strategic control over the Straits of Hormuz continues. And Obama still thinks Afghanistan is more important than Iraq?
5. Khaled Abu Toameh: On the first anniversary of the "Arab Spring," many Arabs are beginning to wonder whether they would soon start missing the corrupt dictators who ruled them for the past few decades. The "Arab Spring" was supposed to bring democracy, transparency and reform to the Arab world. It was supposed to end human rights violations and see the birth of a free and independent media.The "Arab Spring" was supposed to promote the rights of women and minorities in the Arab world and encourage young Arabs and Muslims to abandon extremist views and terrorism.The "Arab Spring" was supposed to be led by young and charismatic Western-educated activists who would bring moderation and pragmatism to the Arab world. The "Arab Spring" was supposed to turn the Arab countries into attraction for tourism and investors from all around the world. PG: An unmitigated humanitarian disaster born out of a culture of hatred and fear.
6.Egypt's parliament moved Sunday toward a vote to order an end to more than $1 billion in US aid, a reflection of tensions with Washington over the case of Americans charged with illegal activity by their pro-democracy groups. PG: As mentioned before in this blog, American aid to Egypt is a pittance compared to aid from the gulf countries. How's all of this working out for you Obama? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4201552,00.html
7.China swung to a massive trade deficit in February, due partly to seasonal distortions but also to faltering demand for the country's exports. The weak export performance comes on top of a raft of disappointing economic data on Friday that economists said will add to the likelihood of additional easing by the central bank and other policy makers. China posted a trade deficit of $31.48 billion in February after reporting a $27.28 billion surplus in January. PG: China has currency reserves of $3 Trillion. A few billion here or there won't worry them too much.
8.The Food and Drug Administration raised safety concerns about the popular class of cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins, warning that patients taking the drugs may face a "small increased risk" of higher blood sugar levels and of being diagnosed with diabetes. The drugs that will get the warning include top-selling brand names such as Lipitor, Lescol, Pravachol, Crestor, Mevacor, Altoprev, Livalo and Zocor. PG: Makes one feel like Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
9.Gina Godfrey has a new blog by name "Gina's Weighty Matters". In her latest blog, discussing coffee she says "But it is the antioxidants in coffee, not caffeine, which has people really enthused. There is lots of data now that found that women who consumed 4 cups of coffee per day had a 20% reduction in risk for basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer. Another study found a decrease in certain breast cancers in women who drank 5 cups or more a day. There are lots of positive studies out there which says coffee lowers risk on Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and gallstones. Who would have thunk it?... and lab testing found that coffee has "much more antioxidants than most vegetables and fruits". Read more http://gina-godfrey.blogspot.com/
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change - Laurence J. Peter
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Apartheid Libel
To all those professors and students at our universities who continue this blatant libel against the Jewish people, you are sickening. It must be really uplifting to spread the new anti-semitism. How else does one explain the nazi-like propaganda emanating from so-called intelligent people? Take it from somebody who knows.....
European Reporter Questions South African Member of Parliament on Israeli Apartheid Charge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se5xTh8uwyo&feature
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is - Winston Churchill
European Reporter Questions South African Member of Parliament on Israeli Apartheid Charge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se5xTh8uwyo&feature
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is - Winston Churchill
Monday, March 5, 2012
Islam - The New Dictatorship
Fun Fact: Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam.
As the clouds darken, the arab spring, born a year ago, is quickly turning into a widening nightmare scenario that is enveloping all of Islam. While the world focuses on the evils perpetrated by the ridiculous assertion that Israel is an apartheid state, a vicious hybrid cancer is beginning to assert itself replacing old dictatorships with an old-new and even more intolerant evil. This is the horrorscope of the future quietly cultivated by the coalition of the extreme left and Islam. These are mostly intellectuals at our educational institutions, infusing their poison into our easily influenced and unsuspecting youth. Of course, financially sponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood who provide the slow drip of oily venom.
Ex dictator, Saddam Hussein and his family members apparently made use of rape rooms to torture and shred opposition to their dictatorship. Or maybe they did it just for fun. Ezra Levant of the Toronto Sun writes that the Syrian army is using rape trucks to gang bang anyone they suspect or just happen to desire. Whatever shade of truth one might believe, clearly these dictatorships are barbaric in nature and need to be eliminated. But hold it! Who do we have on the other side in Syria? The opposition in Syria is being openly supported by Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, Hamas, The US, Europe and the elite media (hey, these revolutionaries use twitter, iPhones and Facebook - so they must be like us). Ring out the old and bring in the new.
When Mubarak went, betrayed by old friend Obama in the name of human rights and cheered on by CNN ("look at us.. we're making history"), leadership of the Sunni arab world and the arab spring automatically passed to American ally and oil supplier Saudi Arabia. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
If we were to mention a country in which women have virtually no rights and are kept as virtual prisoners, unable to travel without the permission of a male guardian or relative, even if he is a child or retarded or mentally defective -- but also that there are separate roads marked for Muslims to drive on and for non-Muslims to drive on? Where one is not not even allowed to bring a Bible into the country. Would this be Israel the apartheid state? If we mentioned that the great humanitarian Hillary Clinton runs a foundation supported financially by this country, while encouraging "understanding" between faiths, we would be positive this was those "Jews using their money to run the world" as claimed by leftists like Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star and others.
In fact, they have no free press, no elected government, no political parties. And the royal family allows the religious police to travel in groups of six carrying nightsticks, with which they freely and publicly beat women. Worse, religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress. Seventeen schoolgirls were burnt to death. This must have taken place in that den of iniquity, Israel since it was reported by the self-acclaimed tower of morality the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1874471.stm Recently the religious police beheaded a woman for practising sorcery. Don't believe me... http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/saudi-woman-beheaded-witchcraft/story?id=15145041#.T1Tu91HYfHg
So really, what are the choices for Israel in this situation. Should they take the advice of our deep thinking intellectuals, who accuse them of a South African type apartheid (from a good distance let it be said) while conveniently ignoring all of the above? Mass murder, rape and genocide is a worst case scenario. Abbas represents the secular Assad type of governance, while Hamas represents the religious Saudi type solution. The more merciful option would be atomic annihilation (The shiite solution). A quick and easy holocaust as opposed to a long drawn out affair. The one state final solution now openly being discussed at Harvard University appears to be the way to go. They are correct in principle, wrong in substance. The two state solution is dead and buried. There is only room for one state in the area. Israel.
Watch and weep as the non-competitive economic world of Islam implodes.
If you are going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill
Ex dictator, Saddam Hussein and his family members apparently made use of rape rooms to torture and shred opposition to their dictatorship. Or maybe they did it just for fun. Ezra Levant of the Toronto Sun writes that the Syrian army is using rape trucks to gang bang anyone they suspect or just happen to desire. Whatever shade of truth one might believe, clearly these dictatorships are barbaric in nature and need to be eliminated. But hold it! Who do we have on the other side in Syria? The opposition in Syria is being openly supported by Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, Hamas, The US, Europe and the elite media (hey, these revolutionaries use twitter, iPhones and Facebook - so they must be like us). Ring out the old and bring in the new.
When Mubarak went, betrayed by old friend Obama in the name of human rights and cheered on by CNN ("look at us.. we're making history"), leadership of the Sunni arab world and the arab spring automatically passed to American ally and oil supplier Saudi Arabia. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
If we were to mention a country in which women have virtually no rights and are kept as virtual prisoners, unable to travel without the permission of a male guardian or relative, even if he is a child or retarded or mentally defective -- but also that there are separate roads marked for Muslims to drive on and for non-Muslims to drive on? Where one is not not even allowed to bring a Bible into the country. Would this be Israel the apartheid state? If we mentioned that the great humanitarian Hillary Clinton runs a foundation supported financially by this country, while encouraging "understanding" between faiths, we would be positive this was those "Jews using their money to run the world" as claimed by leftists like Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star and others.
In fact, they have no free press, no elected government, no political parties. And the royal family allows the religious police to travel in groups of six carrying nightsticks, with which they freely and publicly beat women. Worse, religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress. Seventeen schoolgirls were burnt to death. This must have taken place in that den of iniquity, Israel since it was reported by the self-acclaimed tower of morality the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1874471.stm Recently the religious police beheaded a woman for practising sorcery. Don't believe me... http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/saudi-woman-beheaded-witchcraft/story?id=15145041#.T1Tu91HYfHg
So really, what are the choices for Israel in this situation. Should they take the advice of our deep thinking intellectuals, who accuse them of a South African type apartheid (from a good distance let it be said) while conveniently ignoring all of the above? Mass murder, rape and genocide is a worst case scenario. Abbas represents the secular Assad type of governance, while Hamas represents the religious Saudi type solution. The more merciful option would be atomic annihilation (The shiite solution). A quick and easy holocaust as opposed to a long drawn out affair. The one state final solution now openly being discussed at Harvard University appears to be the way to go. They are correct in principle, wrong in substance. The two state solution is dead and buried. There is only room for one state in the area. Israel.
Watch and weep as the non-competitive economic world of Islam implodes.
If you are going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Miracle Continues....Walk Tall Israel
1.First-ever Bedouin commercial solar field licensed
This is the first license given in Israel for a solar project involving the Bedouin community. The $30 million installation will be established on private land and some 80% of the costs will be funded by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) of the US government. The Public Utility Authority (PUA) granted the Bedouin community in the Negev a license for a photovoltaic installation. Read More http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4186700,00.html
2.Blackstone to make major investments in Israel
The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) will reportedly invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel, through a joint venture that it will set up with Markstone Capital Partners Group LLC. Markstone, headed by managing directors Ron Lubash and Amir Kess, will apparently become Blackstone's exclusive representative in Israel. Markstone will seek Israeli companies in which the two private equity funds will invest. Blackstone, with $166.2 billion in assets under management, is the world's largest private equity fund. COMMENT: Money Talks and BS walks.
3."Israel's gas reserves worth $130b"
Israel's natural gas reserves are worth $100-130 billion, in non-capitalized values, a senior official who accompanies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday's visit to Cyprus said in a press conference. This valuation is the basis for the sovereign fund for oil and gas royalties that will be set up. He added that that the gas discoveries in Israeli waters could be double the known discoveries to date.
4.Goldman Sachs buys 10% of Viola Group
Goldman Sachs paid $20 million for the stake in Viola Group, which manages $2 billion in investments. Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest foreign investors in Israel. It acquires stakes in companies, mostly in high tech, and has made ten investments in Israeli companies to date. Sources inform ''Globes'' that it has invested over $250 million in Israeli companies in the past few years. COMMENT: Small potatoes right now, but when added up....Huge!
5.Israeli village for earthquake victims inaugurated in Turkey
Three months after an earthquake hit the Van region in Turkey and caused the death of hundreds and left thousands wounded and homeless, an "Israeli village" was inaugurated on Monday with 130 mobile homes donated by Israel to the Turkish survivors. '"Only true friends help with such speed and concern," stressed the Turks. Read more..... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4189585,00.html
6.Unemployment rate at historic low in Q4 2011
The unemployment rate fell to an all-time low of 5.4% of the civilian labor force in the fourth quarter of 2011 from 5.6% in the preceding quarter, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today. Tel Aviv had the lowest unemployment rate among cities with more than 100,000 residents, at 4.4% in 2011, down from 5.7% in 2010.
7.Israel named world's 2nd-best clean tech innovator
Going green, going strong: Israel is among the top-three nations worldwide that provide the best conditions for clean technology startup companies, a recent ranking by the CleanTech Group stated. Topping the list was Denmark, followed by Israel, Sweden, Finland and the United States.
Israel is one of the few countries in the world that truly likes and admires the United States.
Israel is the only country in the world where patients visiting physicians end up giving
the doctor advice.
Fun Fact: Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran
This is the first license given in Israel for a solar project involving the Bedouin community. The $30 million installation will be established on private land and some 80% of the costs will be funded by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) of the US government. The Public Utility Authority (PUA) granted the Bedouin community in the Negev a license for a photovoltaic installation. Read More http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4186700,00.html
2.Blackstone to make major investments in Israel
The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) will reportedly invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel, through a joint venture that it will set up with Markstone Capital Partners Group LLC. Markstone, headed by managing directors Ron Lubash and Amir Kess, will apparently become Blackstone's exclusive representative in Israel. Markstone will seek Israeli companies in which the two private equity funds will invest. Blackstone, with $166.2 billion in assets under management, is the world's largest private equity fund. COMMENT: Money Talks and BS walks.
3."Israel's gas reserves worth $130b"
Israel's natural gas reserves are worth $100-130 billion, in non-capitalized values, a senior official who accompanies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday's visit to Cyprus said in a press conference. This valuation is the basis for the sovereign fund for oil and gas royalties that will be set up. He added that that the gas discoveries in Israeli waters could be double the known discoveries to date.
4.Goldman Sachs buys 10% of Viola Group
Goldman Sachs paid $20 million for the stake in Viola Group, which manages $2 billion in investments. Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest foreign investors in Israel. It acquires stakes in companies, mostly in high tech, and has made ten investments in Israeli companies to date. Sources inform ''Globes'' that it has invested over $250 million in Israeli companies in the past few years. COMMENT: Small potatoes right now, but when added up....Huge!
5.Israeli village for earthquake victims inaugurated in Turkey
Three months after an earthquake hit the Van region in Turkey and caused the death of hundreds and left thousands wounded and homeless, an "Israeli village" was inaugurated on Monday with 130 mobile homes donated by Israel to the Turkish survivors. '"Only true friends help with such speed and concern," stressed the Turks. Read more..... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4189585,00.html
6.Unemployment rate at historic low in Q4 2011
The unemployment rate fell to an all-time low of 5.4% of the civilian labor force in the fourth quarter of 2011 from 5.6% in the preceding quarter, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today. Tel Aviv had the lowest unemployment rate among cities with more than 100,000 residents, at 4.4% in 2011, down from 5.7% in 2010.
7.Israel named world's 2nd-best clean tech innovator
Going green, going strong: Israel is among the top-three nations worldwide that provide the best conditions for clean technology startup companies, a recent ranking by the CleanTech Group stated. Topping the list was Denmark, followed by Israel, Sweden, Finland and the United States.
Israel is one of the few countries in the world that truly likes and admires the United States.
the doctor advice.
Fun Fact: Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran
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