Overpumping in Tehran

Iran is an arid country undergoing a severe dry spell. Overexploitation of the aquifer causes the capital Tehran to sink. Cars fall into large holes that appear suddenly. Building collapse. Natural disasters are always attributed to God's fury against the leaders, followed by popular purification movements. ISIS with its return to medieval Islam appeared after a long drought in North East Syria.  

The Black Man is Sexier

We have to recognize that there is unavoidable competition among different varieties of one species, and in the case of mammals, competition among males for fertile females.

Black men are taller, more muscular, stronger than other varieties, and they have the largest sexual organs. They are also more aggressive and daring, and able to improvise brilliant conversation easier than introspective, timid, intellectual peoples. They also have superior sense of rhythm and music, deeper and more masculine voice. Apparently, in their evolution, they underwent strong sexual selection, and acquired the genes that make the girls want them.

Therefore, for the white man there is only one way to compete with the black. Avoiding competition on the dance floor. The rest will be left unsaid. 

Dysgenic Trends in Iceland

The minor allele of one of these SNPs, rs192818565, is associated with reduced education. It is known to tag the H2 haplotype of a common inversion on chromosome 17 that was shown to exhibit characteristics consistent with having been positive-selected (23). It has subsequently been shown that H2 is also associated with reduced intracranial volume (24, 25) and neuroticism (26). Combining our male and female data, the minor allele of rs192818565 is significantly associated with more children (P = 5.2 × 10⁻³) and having children earlier (P = 2.2 × 10⁻³). This is thus a striking case where a variant associated with a phenotype typically regarded as unfavorable could nonetheless be also associated with increased “fitness” in the evolutionary sense.  Source. 

G. Cochran writes that we are seeing in front of our eyes evolution of IQ, so it follows that there are differences among living populations, and also we shall discover them in dead - historical  - populations.  I think all the debate about dysgenic trends in Western populations is finished and we should focus on how to digest this knowledge.

The Communist Party (see Yefim Lysenko's case) and the Left fought and are fighting the idea of IQ evolution. The Nazis with their fake Race Science provided them with a powerful alibi (and constituency) that inhibited the advance for a hundred years.  The whole thing is very badly positioned in the West and we can only say, like Galileo, that "eppur si muove".

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P.S.:  Continuing the above point, let me observe that there are many illustrations of the above dysgenic trend. Just to mention one:

Two oil paintings by renowned Icelandic painter Gunnlaugur Blöndal (1893-1962), were removed from the Central Bank of Iceland after one staff member complained. Blöndal  painted most of his nudes in the 1930's and 1940's. The removal of the painting has caused some uproar as it only features a bare breasted woman and because Blöndal is one of Iceland's most celebrated artists. 

"Certain warning lights start blinking when people are offended by what we call classical imagery," says director of the National Gallery of Iceland, Harpa Þórsdóttir. 

Wildfire Bankrupts US Largest Electricity Company

Power provider PG&E Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, succumbing to liabilities stemming from wildfires in Northern California in 2017 and 2018. It listed assets of $71.39 billion and liabilities of $51.69 billion, in a court document filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.

No one knows from the where the next blow will fall. American judicial system is as dangerous as it is unpredictable. No one escapes it capricious vengeance.  

Tailings Dam Collapse in Brumadinho: Two Engineers Arrested

"Três funcionários da Vale diretamente envolvidos e responsáveis pelo licenciamento da barragem que se rompeu em Brumadinho e dois engenheiros terceirizados que atestaram a estabilidade ..." Three Vale officers and two engineers responsible for the stability permit of the dam..." were jailed today. The operation was carried out by the Ministério Público de Minas Gerais (MPMG), the Ministério Público Federal (MPF) and the Polícia Federal (PF) as well as the Promotoria de Justiça da Comarca de Brumadinho, a Coordenadoria das Promotorias de Justiça de Defesa das Bacias dos Rios da Velha e Paraopeba, o Grupo de Atuação Especial de Combate ao Crime Organizado (Gaeco), e Grupo Especial de Promotores de Justiça de Defesa do Patrimônio Público (GEPP). GAECO is the special group to combat organized crime. 

Poor engineers.

The mayor of the state capital Belo Horizonte, Alexandre Kalil, said "Vale's board of directors should be in jail". The comments came after state prosecutors said they had frozen a total of 11bn reais ($2.9bn; £2.2bn) of assets belonging to Vale.

Access to the areas is difficult - in some places, the mud is up to 15m (49ft) deep. An Israeli group of engineers, doctors and members of the navy's underwater missions unit has joined the efforts.

Enduring Grandfatherhood

I married late and my daughters are also marrying late so I am now an old grandfather. Today went to pick up one grandchild from the kinder because the mother was in the hospital. She is studying for the Master and the exams are coming, and she started vomiting and feeling ill. She is pregnant. My wife and I am the substitute parents, and at my age, it is not easy. We cleaned her apartment and prepared some food. I feel in my bones that modern life is the enemy of big families. Or even small families. Only isolating ourselves from secular education, career, friends, etc. and sacrificing the possibility of making money  - like the religious - are we able to have children. For the first time in history, there is plenty of food, but life is not easy. 

Chimps are better hunters than humans

Chimp males form themselves into hunting parties of up to eight animals and trap jungle mammals with incredible efficiency. Hunting expeditions are generally successful and catch up to three Colobus monkeys, to the point that chimps are exterminating them.  There are also war parties organized to attack razzia-like neighboring groups, in order to increase the territory and to kidnap young females. Human ancestors were trapped in the dry side of the large Rift Valley and developed bipedal mobility and invented butchering instruments. I always imagined chimps to be like dwarves, but they measure 1.20 to 1.50 meters, weighting 40 - 60 kg, which is comparable to humans. I look at the people in the street, and there are many of the 1.30 - 1.60 m group. Chimps are stronger than three weightlifters together. The humans sharing the same rainforest environment became pygmies, not much more intelligent than the chimps: a comparative study would be interesting. Do pygmies also wage war?

 When pondering the goals and methods of human activities, we should try to think their equivalent in chimps, which being simpler and more obvious, offering better insights. For example, what triggers the formation of chimp war parties? When and how the group decides that the time has come to raid the neighbors?  

RED-DEAD project failed

With typical phantasioner overoptimism, Shimon Peres envisioned numerous infrastructure projects that would wave a network of common - unbreakable - interests between Israel and the neighboring countries. The Sinai gas pipeline, that would solve Egypt's energy scarcity and promote its industrialization. The pipe was laid down and worked for a while, till  ISIS sabotaged it. Cairo has no effective forces in the Sinai nor in the rest of its vast territory. On the map, Egypt extends over a million sq.km, but it has no power out of Cairo.

Having learnt this painful lesson, we made a re-appraisal of the Red Sea - Dead Sea pipeline hydroelectrical project. Does the King of Jordan exert effective rule along the 220 kilometer pipe? Israel has decided to retire from the project, and compensate the breaking of the contract with a large payment in currency and drinking water. A very costly fuckup.

We are following the American model of Nation-building for the benefit of our neighbors, but we have even less success than the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. We organized friendly political forces in South Lebanon, but they turned out deadly enemies. We tried to make Gaza a self-governed political entity so we could make peace with them. Absolute failure. The Palestinian State, another Israeli invention, is a comic opera. Thus, the potential of the 450 meter fall of the Dead Sea valley will continue unexploited, till the Moshiach comes. 

Welcome, Low IQ People!

I just received a phone call from a corporation - they had a problem with a calculation. I solved it with excel in no time. They gave me five hundred. Since childhood I receive these presents for nothing, for helping a fellow student for an exam, for translating a page from an unusual language, for solving some banal calculation, for helping the President of the University with a speech, for writing a learned rebuttal to an ignorant regulator. More dumb people make my life easier. More dumb blondies ... ("deep sigh")  … would make my life … (complete the sentence). 

Newark's Water Poisoned with Lead

Mayor Ras J. Baraka wrote a letter to Donald Trump, urging the president to ditch his potential plan to fund his long-sought border wall with emergency funds and instead send some of that money to Newark to replace faulty lead lines that are leaking ‘dangerously high levels of lead’ into the city’s tap water,” The Root reported.

Newark is still in the process of fixing the corrosion control treatment process at the Pequannock plant, which is contributing to the elevated lead levels, said city spokesman Frank Baraff, adding that the city was expecting the levels would still be high during the latest monitoring period”.

It looks that the Flint Water Treatment Plant's failure in treating the water and the subsequent success in drawing Federal Emergency monies is being repeated. 


Newark is one of the oldest American settlements. Originally it was organized as a theocracy of Connecticut Puritans, but that was a long time ago. About 10% of the population is European, the rest is African. Talk about Jews replacing the natives. 

We are in War

We seem to be in an air war in Syria. They fired one missile forcing the closure the only ski facility in Israel. We reacted out of proportion and killed 12 soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard  stationed at Damascus Airport, and a bunch of Syrian soldiers. It is interesting that the recently received S-300 Russian antiair batteries were silent, only Soviet made AA fired. Probably the Russians do not allow the brutish fingers of the Syrians to touch these powerful equipment, to avoid accidents like the last month's felling of a passing Russian carrier.  The confrontation now is between Russian technology versus Israeli/Western technology .

In the Tel Aviv Palace of Justice

Two years ago I gave a written expert opinion on the flooding of a low laying shop. Wrote a short paper, took the money, paid 50% taxes, and forgot the whole business. Yet the Justice never forgets a thing and it grew till the judgment day arrived. Today. Who is responsible for the frequent flooding and sewage overflow? The Judge's own expert wrote that of course it was the occupant's duty to build a pumping station. I said that it was the Authority's legal responsibility to evacuate the sewage. The Judge went out to lunch and left us for half an hour. In this time the insurance woman and the lawyer of the flooded party achieved agreement, 80,000 shekels. When the Judge came back he dictated the conclusion and the problem was who shall pay the experts? Lots of technical discussion that I did not follow, but in the end the lawyer promised to send me the cheque.

The place is a an enormous Brutalist style building, massive cement blocks, some of them with impressed relief signs and mysterious signs (pic). It must have some meaning. I shall read it when I have time.

The Very Long Hand of American Justice

America is policing the world and imposing American morals on everybody. I applauded when a Brooklyn Justice forced Argentina to pay its debt - that was justice. But now America has demanded the arrest and extradition of a Huawei (Chinese) executive for … I don't know what, but certainly not for violating American laws. Probably they included a spy function in their chips. The Economist has noticed that banks and international corporations are increasingly afraid of American activism. In the past, American power was never exercised in such an open way. America promoted democracy, but now it is imposing its own idealist morals in the commercial world. America is following the model of England's international campaign against slavery of the 17th and 18th Centuries. I think it is a good thing. 

Israel Water Masterplan

How fast the time passes! Only twenty years ago I was working in the Water Authority and marginally involved in the preparation of the Israel Water Masterplan 2000 - 2020. That document has been forgotten by everybody and never updated or revised. The only good thing I can say about it that it was a Masterplan. Today we have none and no one is working on a new one. Another comment is that twenty years is nothing, a national Masterplan has to comprise at least fifty years. Singapur has mapped its future till 2060. Admirable!

Israeli Lunar Craft

The Chinese have a vehicle on the dark side of the moon. We too are sending a craft to the moon (left). Israel will be the fourth country with its flag "flapping" in the solar wind on the moon.

Nice, but I am losing lots of sheqels with the Israeli communication sector. The satellite company lost one in space and is broke. Bezeq, the phone company, is being liquidated. Tower, the chip fab, lost half of its worth in the last bear market.

If you ask me, the moon will not go away and the project could wait, but I need money now, here on Earth. 

Mikveh near Tel Aviv

This morning I went to a Mikweh (ritual bath). The Ministry of Religion had invested in the renovation of this facility, and I was invited to do an AS MADE plan and certify it. The entrances for men and women are on different sides of the building, and there are intimidating steel turnstiles to get inside. No gender mixing here. The bathing installations are inviting, nice and clean, so much that I thought about installing a mini-bar at the poolside, and maybe a small nudist gym annex for the religious gay. The mikweh could be then operated on a profit basis like a bathhouse.

The pipes and the machinery were a mix of old and new, and the old badly renewed (see the hot water tank "renewed" with transparent plastic tape!). There are at least ten thermometers, measuring anything between 20 to 55 Centigrades.

Who was the Flint Water Poisoner?

As remembered, the City of Flint changed its water source without adding the necessary buffer, causing the leaching of lead from old house water lines. The fuckup was inflated and made into a racist conspiracy (genocide of the poor Africans) and President Obama declared National Emergency and transferred fantastic budgets to the City. Croft (pic) had been head of Flint's Public Works and in spite of being a rooted Flint African American, he was accused of Conspiracy to Commit False Pretenses.  

Howard Croft: Croft was the City of Flint’s Director of the Department of Public Works from December 2011 to November 17, 2015. He was charged with:

• False Pretenses, Felony: 20 Years and/or $35,000, or 3 times the value of the money or property involved, whichever is greater.
  • Croft is alleged to have aided and abetted Defendants Ambrose and Earley in a process that allowed the use bonds to fund the construction of the KWA pipeline despite the City being broke. The City of Flint exploited an exception to state law by claiming the bonds were needed to fund an emergency cleanup of a retention pond, when in fact the funds were intended to pay for the KWA. During that time, the defendant actively worked in various fashions to discourage a return to using water produced by the Detroit Water and Sewer Department, require the use of Flint River water through a Flint Water Treatment Plant, that was deemed unready for service by several people involved with its management, and to ensure the construction of the KWA.                                                                                
    
    OK, the poor devil tried to do his job and get the pipeline built. His superiors had decided to build the KWA pipe and stop buying water from Detroit when they had the Flint river for free. The river water is certified drinkable, and lead free. A perfectly rational decision and Croft tried to make it happen. The accusation implies that the project was criminal and the Director of Public Works should have known it, is simply ludicrous. If he mis-stated that the money was needed for an emergency cleanup, then it was with the approval of his bosses. Croft looks intelligent; he is not the type to lie without higher protection. Croft is a victim of American Justice.

Winter Depression

Like all animals and plants in this planet, I follow the length of the day in my biology. Just now it is dark outside, there was no blue sky or sun all day, it is raining all the day, and I am feeling depressed. I spent half a day in bed and cannot start working. Light therapy may help - after two weeks, may be. No time for that. Having started, half of the job is already done. So, I am starting.

Calculate the path of Oumuamua

Nobody can. It’s velocity and predicted path started to change right after it passed by the Sun, which can’t be explained. Right after it passed by the Sun it immediately started traveling faster. Since it is not emitting gas jets, it must have another source of energy. It is a solar wind sail. 

Buying Bayer

Bayer is a120 years old German chemical company, the best of the best. It made the mistake of buying Monsanto, an American agricultural chemicals company, producer of glyphosphate herbicide. Der Spiegel has a decent article on the following debacle and crash of Bayer's worth. Since I know that the product is not toxic and it is being attacked by the green ecology movement without any scientific basis, I believe that stupidity will not prevail and Bayer will extricate itself from this "migraine". Bayer is a buying opportunity. That company have made many people wealthy in the past, and I expect to keep prospering in the future. 

Hantavirus Epidemy

The Hanta virus has mutated and now it is able to travel in small drops emitted by sneezing. It appears as a regular cold that takes up to forty days to disappear. That is when it does not kill the next day of the infection. The focus of the mutation is in the Province of Chubut, Argentina, and already there are three people dead in La Plata, some 2000 km north. The Hantavirus normally lives in the country mouse in the Argentine pampa. Just now, I have a serious cold and can't stop sneezing, also my daughter Nomi is ill in the kibbutz. I hope this mutated virus did not reach Israel yet. If this blog dies, now you know the cause. It is looking at you in the pic.                

Leadership in Beowulf

Leaders in the Beowulf poem are called Kings, Givers of Treasures, that is, they are who distribute a raid's spoils between the fighters. That seems to be the source of their hold on the retainers, and the necessity for having them in the group. They don't really seem to rule, but mostly they give presents, rings and twisted gold chains. Therefore I am a bit surprised by the election as representative of a New York barrio this 29 old healthy good looking portorriquena, Alexandria. I have difficulty in imagining her as an effective politician, although the fact that she made her peregrination to the Holy City of Flint before her campaign is indicative that she has good instincts.

The leadership of the socialist movement in America is heavily Jewish, I mean Jews (not real Jews in my opinion, but in a general sense) are its hard core. Only recently the movement was dying of old age, when it renewed itself by putting in the front visibly non-Jewish furiously anti-Israeli candidates. Not only two colored women were elected (Alexandria and Rachida) but suddenly the movement grew from 30 to 150 chapters. The strategy works. In a metaphorical way, it can compared to Jewish anti-Communists funding the national socialist party in the early nineteen twenties. I feel uneasy with Alexandria and Rachida, but success is success.

Interestingly, in Beowulf there is not one dispute about leadership. The main activity of the Vikings seem to be robbing gold and taking slaves, as well as revenging blood offenses. There is no one lording over them and giving orders. In comparison, the proto-Greek raiders of the Illiad are always competing for leadership - the whole Illiad is the story of the rebellion of the leader of the Mirmidons (the Ant clan) against the authority of the organizer and supreme leader of the expedition. Apparently the Vikings have evolved better genes for co-operative activities. 

Arab-Uyghur Love Affair

I am wordless. 

Disaster at Ayalim Hedge Funds

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The Marker (a supplement of the infernal HaAretz) writes about Ayalim Funds that lost in 2018 about 9 billion sheqels = 2.5 billion US dollars. It is a lot of money for Israeli savers. Apparently the fund invested in high-yield corporation bonds, like Kardan, Africa Israel, IDB Pituach (I have all of them) and lost over 30%. Well, I still believe that it is paper loss, those companies will pay their debts or renegotiate them in better terms. The 5% loss in sheqel managed funds caught my attention, how that happened? I went to Ayalim website and checked that fund, and it sent me to the TASE website. Seems the page was deleted and the link changed. Not nice. In 2016 Ayalim was the star fund, and that may have gone to their heads.

My portfolio has a positive yield in sheqalim, but I am losing in dollar terms. The reason is the strength of American economy and possibly the imperceptible devaluation of the sheqel vis-à-vis the dollar, possibly because the political uncertainty in Israel. I think that the robots that trade following key-words (trying to evaluate the political-economical sentiment of the country) are to blame, that is, they read the media that is consistently anti-Israel (in the word) and anti-government (in Israel). Reading HaAretz one could think that I am living in Equatorial Guinea and not in prosperous Kever Benjamin City.  

America Should Assist Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan

The brutal sinification of the Turkish Uyghurs is increasingly generating national-racial radicalism and we are hearing more and more about Uyghur fighters escaping to Afghanistan and Central Asia. ISIS had several Uyghur units fighting in Syria and Iraq, and Uyghurs have been carrying out terror acts in Europe and Turkey. Since America has concluded that China is a hostile rival not to say enemy, it needs to find allies whose interest are aligned with the anti-Chinese sentiment. The Uyghurs are a potential asset and should be assisted. Since the only friends they have are Muslim guerillas in Afghanistan, those friends of our potential friends should be organized into the Asian alliance America is trying to build.  Video: Uyghur folk dance. 

The Hui Muslims of Western China also have differences with the Han and their dictatorship. They have no territorial demands but their religion and their contacts with Central Asian Muslims are inacceptable. The Chinese are notoriously arrogant and insensitive (they believe in nothing - only bureaucratic promotion and money) and they are unable to distinguish between Jews and Muslims, and their subdivisions seem bizarre and incomprehensible for them. The last time I was in China, they assigned an Uyghur muslim secret policeman to look after me. I did not care and accepted his presents (enormous peaches and apples) but it was very strange. I asked him to take me to the Jewish street of Kaifeng, which is in the middle of the Muslim quarter, and I also entered mosques, and it was clear that the Huy recognized my escort like the policeman he was. I wondered if the Chinese authorities were aware of the difference between a Turkish Uyghur and the Arabic Huys. I wonder how are doing the Jewish-descendants in Kaifeng. Some have made Aliyah.  

Shuffling the Deck in Israel

We are entering a hotly contested pre-electoral period here in Israel. Political Alliances that held for years are dissolving and everybody is scrambling and positioning for the coming contest. Netaniyahu secured for us seven years of no-war and prosperity, the natives were pacified and the University of Ariel was funded. I wonder if the new political constellation can follow this act.

I am also worried about Oumuamua. 

Wishing the Best to Rashida

Her family’s story is typical of many Palestinians, with relatives scattered across the West Bank, Jordan and the United States. Rashida Tlaib (42) (pic: Pelosi swearing in  the new representative) is the eldest of fourteen children of a Palestinian immigrant to Detroit. The mukhtar Mohammed Tlaib said some 50 people from the illegal Arab settlement on Road 433 have immigrated to the US and now have children in schools and universities in America. 

“It’s a great honour for this small town. It’s a great honour for the Palestinian people to have Rashida in the Congress,” said Mohammed Tlaib, the village’s former mayor and a distant relative. “For sure she will serve Palestine, for sure she will serve the interests of her nation. She is deeply rooted here."

Let me add my congratulations and sincere best wishes for Rashida. I am happy that she and her numerous family have left Israel and are prospering far away. Already I feel safer driving on Route 433 to Jerusalem knowing that fewer Shahabs are throwing stones to Israeli vehicles. And Hon. Muhammed is wrong, she is not deeply rooted here, since she and her hamoolah abandoned their ancestral land for the Goldene Medine. Many Palestinians have reached high political positions in Latin America and now in the USA, and caused us no further problems. From this Kever Benjamin settlement, I wish 

All the Best, Rashida!

Mysterious rising salinity of Lake Kineret

There is increasing alarm among Israel's water officials that the salinity of the Lake - Israel's main reservoir - is rising, even to the point that it will become too saline for drinking purposes. Historically, the lake's salinity varied and it is assumed that in the times of Petrus the fisherman, the lake was undrinkable and the fishing villages bordering the lake derived their water from springs.

The graph shows how salinity and water level are inversely related, that is, when the water is low, salinity increases. That is logical. Today the lake is very low, and therefore saline. It appears that the cause is NOT climate change, and the rainfall - within historical oscillations - has not decreased. So, it must be that the contributing rivers flowing in from hostile countries, as damming and overpumping, maybe to harm us or just because they are using the water for irrigation. That was the accepted view.

But no, inflow measurements at the border show no change. The Syrian Golan is depopulated because of their civil war. and Lebanon's agriculture is agonizing under the Hizballah. The conclusion must be that WE are extracting (stealing?) more water from the upper Jordan stream. But how could that be if our use of water is strictly regulated by the Water Authority (my former employer) and every drop is accounted for?  Everyone here knows the answer but the journalists.

I prefer to quote Sherlock Holmes. “When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” 

Steady as she goes

NASDAQ entered the manic mood and a buying panic has taken over the trading machines. In this very moment we are touching 7%  rise, a rate never heard of in this chaotic times. I had held steady all the time and did not sell when the end of the world was announced in the WSJ and now I am riding the rising wave. A bad person could say that I was not steady but drunk and sedated. Or too busy learning Old English to read Beowulf. Who cares...

The Iliad vs. Beowulf

The Greek heroic poem the Iliad, that tells the story of Achaean ships raiding the capital city of Troy can be compared to the saga of the North Germanic peoples sailing and raiding two thousand years later. The Iliad takes a picture of one day of fighting on the shores of Troy, it is well organized and deep, while Beowulf deals with family feuds and individual battle against underground monsters. No doubt, as a literary/intellectual achievement, Beowulf is inferior. Yet, both Greeks and Germans took over the world of their times some 500 years later, and both developed wonderful civilizations.

The Greek civilization was defeated by its own success, Alexander extended it all over the East, creating administrative and teaching jobs for Greek speaking persons in the colonies, and the whole structure was bastardized into a Hellenistic universal mixture and never again reached Plato's heights. The Germanic (English) civilization also colonized the world, and is being dissolved and diluted into a pidgin blend. In its success, it is dying before our eyes. The cause of the death of our  civilization, like heart disease in Jewish families of the Old Country, cannot be said out loudly. Death was too horrible to contemplate, and/or saying the word too loudly may cause Death itself to show up. 

Asking for sex in Israel costs 500 dollars

If you believe that having sex with a prostitute is performing rape, then Israel should be your home. The Knesset just passed a law imposing a fine on the male enquiring how much she takes. The fine is 500 dollars. If there is a match and actually they do it, the same fine. It is stupid as well drastic, but less than its Swedish model. This is another of the progressive laws that are five light-years ahead of the prevailing social arrangements in Israel. They try to impose advanced, feminist, unnatural and impossible rules on this Middle Eastern  population, 20% of which is fanatically Muslim. While Sweden imposes these kind of prohibitions on its own Nordic population, Israel tries to do it on traditional Afro-Asian Jews and on the 20% of the population that is fanatically Muslim and hates Western values.

It is well established that the prohibition of prostitution is followed by rapes and violence. Who wins by this law? Since it drives sex underground, it increases the value of the resource that only women have. It should drive unmarried males to legal marriage with assured free sex. The law increases female power and dominion over males. Interestingly, the argument that prostitution is immoral has not been heard, only that whores are victims of the hated, oppressive patriarchy.

In Greece prostitution was not only allowed but there were five different types: the slave girls (price 70 to 200 obols, while one obol is a workday salary), professional musicians for symposia (they could be hired at two obols a day), porne (low class) and heteira (high class) whores, and the sacred temple prostitutes (in Delos, a thousand). The Romans taxed the whole branch.