I know, we'll jack up their interest rates to make them play ball...
...that always works!
From the "something good to say" department...
Water from Hadera desalination plant enters National Water Carrier
The Hadera plant will produce over 100 million cubic meters of water per year. It joins two other desalination plants already in operation, one of equal size in Ashkelon and a smaller one at Palmahim....The goal is to have 600 million cubic meters of desalinated water being produced annually by 2013. Current household demand is about 750 million cubic meters per year. Once the Hadera plant begins to operate at full capacity, Israel will receive more water from desalination than from Lake Kinneret.
I try and accentuate the positive...
...that's why I haven't posted anything here lately.
Posted on 19 October 2009 @ 01:28 GMT
Thanks, but it's not our airliners that need to use your airspace...
Posted on 23 September 2009 @ 15:22 GMT
His location is so secret even he doesn't know where he is
Netanyahu disappears for 10-hour 'military facility visit'
PS: He was in Moscow discussing whatever it is that people go to Moscow to discuss in times such as these.
Russia, China Scuttle Bid for More Sanctions on Iran
Russia and China have rejected a proposal by the U.S., Britain, France and Germany to impose more sanctions on Iran should a dialogue over its nuclear program fail, a senior official in Jerusalem said.The two nations refused to discuss the possibility of further pressuring Iran during high-level, six-power talks held last week in Germany.
"Russia and China avoided a serious discussion, presented an inflexible stance, and set things back one year," the Israeli official said.
Palestinian Woman Bitten by Snake, Israeli Settlers Blamed
A snake bit a Palestinian woman near Salfit in the West Bank.Locals, who have often accused settlers of releasing wild boars into Palestinian villages and farmland, said the snake was likely released from a nearby Israeli settlement, noting that after the attack it escaped toward the settlement.
Why West Bank Settlements Are Good for Peace
Raphael Israeli - One of the axioms of the "peace process" is that the settlements are "an obstacle to peace." It's well known, however, that before 1967 there were no settlements, and no peace. The Arabs are bothered by Jewish settlement in Israel in general. It's enough to browse through the books of the "moderate" Palestinian Authority to see that Haifa, Jaffa and even Tel Aviv are considered Palestinian cities, while Hamas believes all Palestine should be expropriated from the Jewish state, which doesn't have the right to land on either side of the "green line."Only Jewish settlement activity can be enough of an incentive to make the Arabs, like Sadat, hurry up and seek peace, because their losses will multiply the longer they wait.
The author is a professor of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Chinese history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
88% of Israelis pass nationwide test of intelligence
The remainder were too distracted by self-loathing to be able to concentrate on answering the question.
Poll: Only 12% of Israelis Believe Obama Supports Israel
Only 12% of Israelis believe President Obama's policies are supportive of Israel, according to a poll released Thursday by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University conducted Aug. 9-15.
Talk to the upraised finger
U.S. Warns Israel Not to Build Up West Bank Corridor
The U.S. administration has issued a stiff warning to Israel not to build in the area known as E-1, between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim in the West Bank.Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed in the past to finally build the controversial E-1 housing project - as have several prime ministers before him.
It's amazing to witness people undermining their brave new master-plan for the Middle East with such single-minded determination.
U.S. "Dispels Fears" over Israel Sanctions
The State Department rebuffed speculation that the U.S. was considering imposing economic sanctions against Israel over continuing West Bank settlement construction.Spokesman Phillip Crowley said Thursday that remarks made earlier this week that it was "premature" to talk about financial pressure on Israel "had been "misinterpreted." "We are not contemplating such action," Crowley said.
64% of Israeli Jews believe Israel would not be able to trust international pledges for its security in return for settlement withdrawals in the West Bank, while only 9% said it would, according to a poll released Thursday by Maagar Mohot.71% said the government must insist that the Palestinians freeze all West Bank construction if a similar freeze were forced upon Israel. Only 20% disagreed.
62% said that PA leaders want to establish a Palestinian state in place of Israel, while only 27% said Palestinian leaders want to live side-by-side.
58% believe any pledge from PA leader Mahmoud Abbas would not bind future Palestinian leaders.
I don't know what knucklehead thought up this strategy for "bringing the Israelis to heel" but I suggest whoever it is be given a shovel and pointed in the direction of an economic recovery project - I'm sure there are plenty of ditches that need digging in the greater DC metro area.
An ambush that allows the adversary to survive only makes a more determined adversary
Despite their previous wariness, most Israelis were quite happy to see Obama in the White House. Despite a few suspicions, our prime minister was quite charmed by the young senator from Illinois and his meteoric rise. But his meeting with Netanyahu in the Oval Office several months ago was an ambush. Without any advance warning, Obama placed his ultimatum in front of Netanyahu. That is how he turned Netanyahu from an admirer into an adversary in the blink of an eye.Soon after the confrontation in Washington Obama renounced the commitments made by previous administrations on the settlement blocs. He trashed the letter written by George W. Bush and the policies of Bill Clinton. That is how he taught the Israelis a lesson they will not quickly forget: The word of a U.S. president is not worth much. A pre-withdrawal promise is only a promise. This behavior has paralyzed the Israeli public's willingness to support the next large-scale withdrawal and only a few Israelis view him as a true friend of Israel.
IDF Mulls Possible U.S. Aid Halt Effects
Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)Amid growing tension between Jerusalem and Washington, the IDF and the Defense Ministry have held brainstorming sessions to discuss the possibility that the U.S. would cut military aid to Israel.
The discussion came just hours before a State Department spokesman said that it was still "premature" to talk about financial sanctions against Israel for its refusal to freeze settlement construction.
Israeli defense officials said it was possible to interpret the remark as meaning that now it is premature, but that at a later date sanctions might be realistic.
Note to the curious: as much as Israel may appreciate US military aid, the fact is the money must be spent in the USA, which has a significant negative impact on Israel's own arms industry. Personally, I can think of worse things than Israel spending what money it has on Israeli weapons made in Israel.
He was also founder of the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (MLM), parent organization of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
He also collected dolls and matchbooks from around the world.