Good News, Israel

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1. @ yamit82:

   Note that most of Israel’s generals and intelligence personnel are not on board to attack Iran. Do you know something that they don’t know? with regard to yourself, may I quote a well known latin saying, OKSHMAY, POTSMAY. May you go in peace, but go already.

2. Desalinized water is more important than oil…add to this impressive list

   “In a world where freshwater resources are becoming increasingly scarce, Israel–a country that is two-thirds arid–has become a leader in developing the necessary technology for making salt water potable.

   The Israeli desalination company, IDE Technologies, which has been in operation for more than 40 years, has made many advances in desalination technology, installing over 400 desalination plants in 40 countries including the Caribbean Islands and United States. IDE Technologies has also won major contracts with Cyprus, India and Australia, and last year with China.

   Since 2011, the Israeli-built desalination plant in Tianjin is China’s largest and most environmentally friendly desalination plant to date, running on some of the waste heat produced by a nearby power plant, producing fresh water and salt.

   However, desalination plants for the most part are extremely costly for less-developed nations, as they use enormous amounts of electricity and are location-sensitive. But thanks to a recent Israeli discovery, the desalination system may become much more affordable in areas like Africa and the Middle East.

   Researchers from the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and central Arava R&D, have found a way to utilize solar energy at a fraction of the cost which can be custom-engineered for the desalination process, according to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

   The new innovation uses solar energy panels to power the pumps of a desalination unit that generates clean water for crops. More importantly, the technology utilizes unique nanofiltration membranes that enable farmers to decide which minerals should be retained from the water to feed various types of crops, a method which requires much less energy. The new system is currently being tested in the Arava Valley of Israel, south of the Dead Sea, where the basin is very dry. The results thus far show that farmers can use up to 25 percent less water and fertilizer than what has usually been needed in that area.

   According to Andrea Ghermandi of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University and one of the system’s creators, the current environment is forcing agricultural systems to become more economical. Ghermandi told the MFA that “the growing global demand for food and competition for resources among economic sectors compel future agricultural systems to be more efficient in the use of natural resources such as land and water.”

   Another important researcher in the discovery, Ben Gurion University’s Rami Messalem explained that the” breakthrough here was to make the system more economical and we’ve done this using nanofiltration cleverly. Our system is compatible with electricity but is based on the premise that it can be used in poor countries, in places where you don’t have an electricity source—as a standalone system.”

   The MFA website indicated that the new desalination system was made possible thanks to funding from Swiss philanthropist Samuel Josefowitz.”

   copied from:
   http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israeli-innovation-could-make-water-drinkable-in-africa/2012/08/13/

3. @ steven belsky:

   The advantage of surprise has been lost.

   As soon as Iran began their project and it became known outside of Iran the ideas of surprise is mute. An attack by Israel or America was always factored into their program and expected. . It’s not a matter of surprise but of how good our Intel is as to what they got and where it is….Everything else is an operational problem easily overcome with the proper assets, training and the political will to exercise them.

   America has the conventional assets, size and logistics to methodically destroy the Iranian project and preempt and nullify their ability to hit back in any serious way. Israel can do the job with different assets than America and to ensure successful mission will have no choice but to use what we have. Israel need not even have to use her Air Force.

   The western world is struggling with a serious economic crises and starting new hostilities in a sensitive area at the very worst of times would not be too bright.

   Let me understand you.

   You think that Israel should allow Iran to reach the status as a nuclear power. Ignore the threats emitting from their leadership, Civilian and Military. That we should risk another Holocaust because of what will or might happen to the economies of the world?

   You ain’t too bright and I am being Kind.

4. @ yamit82:
   Eidelberg for King. All say ,hail!

5. @ yamit82:

   Israel should have attacked Iran ten years ago- that is exactly the time they initially threatened to begin bombing. Now it is much too late. The advantage of surprise has been lost. The western world is struggling with a serious economic crises and starting new hostilities in a sensitive area at the very worst of times would not be too bright.

6. Israeli Tourism Booming

   2012 Record year.

   Israel caters to Christians, and Slavs. What a menagerie.

7. Israel helps India clean up the Ganges river

   Israel New Tech’s Oded Distel says this technology is becoming so advanced that even left-over residue from waste water treatment is being considered as a possible source of energy. He puts Israel’s success at water technology down to the fact that it has a 45 percent natural water deficit and must create solutions to sustain the population.

   “It’s an industry that is classically based on ‘necessity is the mother of innovation’,” Distel said.

   Distel also cites flexibility as a reason why Israeli companies are well suited to fashioning solutions for the Ganges. Some of Israel’s top information technology professionals translate algorithms designed to analyze information flows into technology that detects water leakages.

   “A very important element is the flexibility of Israeli companies to adjust their solution to specific problems. This is something that is unique in the clean-tech arena. The type of water in India is not like in Israel, it’s not like [water] in California or in Florida,” Distel said.

8. US didn’t foresee 9/11, officials in Jerusalem say, after White House claims it would know if Iran was about to get the bomb
   Withering response from anonymous sources in Israel to Obama spokesman’s attempt at reassurance

9. Quote of the Day!!

   Khamenei’s Sacred Word: Destroy Israel

   by Clifford May
   Moment Magazine

   “Aznar recalled another meeting, this one with Vladimir Putin, in which he advised the Russian president against selling missiles to Iran. “Don’t worry—I, you, we can sell them everything, even if we are worried by an Iranian nuclear bomb,” Aznar quoted Putin as saying. “Because at the end of the day, Israel will take care of it.”

10. Israel elecric company threatens to pull plug on West Bank
    From Ma’an:

    An Israeli electricity company has threatened to cut off supplies to the West Bank over unpaid debts, a Palestinian electricity company official said Monday.

    The Jerusalem Electricity Company received an official warning from the Israeli Electric Corporation that it would cut off electricity due to unpaid debts amounting to 424 million shekels ($105 million), Hasan Muslih, a member of the JEC’s board of directors, told Ma’an.

    A major reason for the accumulation of debt is that refugee camps in the West Bank refuse to pay their bills, Muslih said. There is also a disparity in the buying and selling tariff of electricity, he added.

    The threatened cut to supplies would affect areas in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jericho, Muslih said, adding that power cuts in the West Bank could become as frequent as in the Gaza Strip.

    The Jerusalem Electricity Company has organized a campaign to collect unpaid bills.

    The “refugee” camps aren’t paying their bills…I wonder if UNRWA usually takes care of that or not.

    Of course, if IEC does cut off electricity, the world will blame Israel. Because free electricity is a human right, at least for a small percentage of humans

11. @ Canadian Otter:

    Look at BB’s moves as a backdoor strategy to incrementally effect a presidential system in all but name.

    It’s good if we have a wise and beneficent King but when we have a stupid evil and cowardly King it could be bad. 🙁

    The people always have the right of insurrection. 8)

12. @ yamit82:
    USA & EU brought to their knees by wrecking their economy first.

    The article you cite fits perfectly with the international elite’s strategy:

    Samson Blinded News: The proposed doubling of the budget deficit to 3% removes possibly our most important safeguard, one which the Bank of Israel’s CEO cites as responsible for Israel’s stability amid the world financial crisis. Raising taxes and expanding welfare projects while simultaneously cutting down on equally important social expenses testifies to the lack of any government economic policy except juggling for the ad hoc survival of the coalition.

    The international elite’s plan is to wreck Israel’s superior performance, which will weaken the country. They will then try to subjugate the population as in Southern Europe, where banksters are running the show. In the case of Israel, they want to accelerate the elite’s complete takeover of the country and to expedite Israel’s partition and eventual dismantling.

    Yesterday’s announcement of an unprecedented increase of the Israeli Prime Minister’s power is disturbing because it reminds us of the general outline set by the international elite to erode US and European democracies (although the EU was half-way there with the creation of the European Union).

    The US is unrecognizable already, with TSA’s widening powers, and with Congress approval of the NDAA, which allows the president to order the arrest and indefinite imprisonment of a citizen based on something as tenuous as a “rumor”. No requirement to follow the normal judicial process with access to a lawyer or anything. The person can be simply “disappeared” into a dungeon somewhere. The NDAA is only one of several new measures based on the war on terror that are being used to stifle dissent and erode people’s rights.

    In the case of Israel, new measures expanding the PM’s power came about based on the threat by Iran, an indefinite threat that will result in indefinite superpowers for the PM.

    We can only hope that those powers won’t be abused or increased, because even if Mr Netanyahu uses them with restraint, the chances are high that his successor could use them to launch a complete takeover of the government.

    Revised Gov’t Protocol Gives PM Unprecedented Powers
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4267396,00.html

    PS: It’s rather curious how the PM’s increased powers to legislate came about just as nationalist forces opposing partition are beginning to gain popularity and to make themselves heard in the Knesset.

13. Begins with corruption and ends with just plain stupidity. Corruption and stupidity is a toxic blend.

    Israel gives green light to Palestinians for developing our gas field

    The government has agreed to lift the long-standing ban preventing the Palestinians from developing the gas field offshore of Ashkelon, which is ridiculously called the Gaza gas field (it is opposite of Israel, not only Gaza). Barak gave that field to Arafat to make the terrorist government economically viable.

    Developing the gas field would beef up Hamas’ coffers, since the terrorist group exercises control over Gaza’s waters. Israel will be buying our own gas back from the Palestinians.

14. 
    Are there any sane intelligence chiefs in Israel?

    After Meir Dagan publicly opposed an Israeli strike on Iran, Aharon Farkash (head of MI for many years) joined the fray. He agrees that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and that Obama is not likely to stop the ayatollahs, but argues that an Israeli strike would lack the necessary international legitimacy. Why exactly we need the world’s approval to defend ourselves, Farkash did not explain. And indeed, we bombed Osiraq despite an international outcry, so what’s different now

15. 
    Egypt demonstrates normality to Israel

    The world remains silent about Egypt sealing its border with Gaza in response to the terrorist attack on Egyptian police in Sinai. A clear case of collective punishment, yet effective in bringing Hamas to its knees.

    So far, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood appears powerless to help Hamas. It remains to be seen how long the junta will be able to ignore the MB-led parliament.

16. Only in Israel: Military approves universities

17. Netanyahu broke Israeli security, now economy

18. Gas barons dictate Israeli foreign policy

    The Tamar consortium is considering a $15 billion contract to sell liquified gas to Russia’s Gazprom. Such a sale would create conflict between Israel and France, which also wants to buy LPG from us, incidentally to protect itself against the Gazprom racket.

    The contract would run for fifteen years, which is the projected life span of the gas field. After that time, having sold our gas to international bidders, Israel would again be at the mercy of Muslim gas suppliers.

    Netanyahu broke Israeli security, now economy
    
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    After missing every opportunity to bomb Iranian nuclear installations, Netanyahu has turned to destroying Israeli economy.

    The proposed doubling of the budget deficit to 3% removes possibly our most important safeguard, one which the Bank of Israel’s CEO cites as responsible for Israel’s stability amid the world financial crisis. Raising taxes and expanding welfare projects while simultaneously cutting down on equally important social expenses testifies to the lack of any government economic policy except juggling for the ad hoc survival of the coalition.

19. Gas barons dictate Israeli foreign policy

    The Tamar consortium is considering a $15 billion contract to sell liquified gas to Russia’s Gazprom. Such a sale would create conflict between Israel and France, which also wants to buy LPG from us, incidentally to protect itself against the Gazprom racket.

    The contract would run for fifteen years, which is the projected life span of the gas field. After that time, having sold our gas to international bidders, Israel would again be at the mercy of Muslim gas suppliers.

    Only in Israel: Military approves universitiesNetanyahu broke Israeli security, now economy
    
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    After missing every opportunity to bomb Iranian nuclear installations, Netanyahu has turned to destroying Israeli economy.

    The proposed doubling of the budget deficit to 3% removes possibly our most important safeguard, one which the Bank of Israel’s CEO cites as responsible for Israel’s stability amid the world financial crisis. Raising taxes and expanding welfare projects while simultaneously cutting down on equally important social expenses testifies to the lack of any government economic policy except juggling for the ad hoc survival of the coalition.

    The Defense Ministry is obstructing the attempt by Ariel college to obtain university status. That continues the years-long controversy over granting such status to education centers located in the ‘occupied’ territories.

    The ministry is open about its doubts: it is concerned about diplomatic repercussions. What does the Defense Ministry have to do with diplomacy, except for Barak’s personal relations with world leaders? Instead of defending our country against Iran, the Defense Minister trembles at the thought of goyim condemning us over the purely domestic issue of university status.

20. Govt pays companies to hire Arabs. “Good news”?

    Open discrimination against unemployed Jews in Israel – a good thing? While Arabs repeatedly set fire to fields, attack Jews, and call for the destruction of the state?

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    There was an article the other day about the reaction of a Samaria leader to the United Church of Canada boycott of Yesha products. I kept sending talkbacks about the hiring of Arabs but something about this leader’s plea kept bothering me. By the time I identified it, the news report was already gone from the front page.

    Boycott of Samaria Products Will Harm PA Arabs, Says Ha’ivri.

    David Ha’ivri, executive director of the Shomron (Samaria) Liaison Office, said the United Church of Canada boycott would hurt Palestinians who work for Jewish business.

    “For example, he said, Barkan Industrial Park in Ariel in Samaria … employs 6,000 people – roughly half of whom are Israeli citizens (both Jews and Arabs) and the other half are Palestinian Authority Arabs.”

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158730

    So I kept attacking Jews employing Arabs. But it was a day or so afterwards that Havivri’s words resonated as an echo of a time, not long ago, when Jews pleaded to be allowed to live one more day because their work was essential to their masters’ war effort.

    Decades later many of us sometimes give the impression of trying to justify Israel’s existence by the quality of its contributions to the world, or in Samaria’s particular case, by the fact that it provides work to the otherwise unproductive Israeli and PA Arabs, the world’s darlings.

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    I celebrate as much as any other Jew the Israel’s achievements. But there is something in this celebration that has a subtle but clear message that these accomplishments are Israel’s way of justifying its existence to the anti-Semitic world. Something nobody would expect from the Arab “culture”.

    Example of Arab achievements: http://masada2000.org/ramallah.html (Caution – graphic evidence)

    Two of those Arab high “achievers” were captured by Israel but then released along with a thousand other Arab “achievers” in exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. They were recently recaptured for terror related activities in the “moderate” Palestinian Authority territory.

    In the meantime Jews continue to hire them, and even brag about it ….