The war against Hamas is unending. I and the rest of the world are tired of it. The Houthis fired two or three missiles today, I heard the explosions. TASE is falling. I had a "misunderstanding" with my oldest client. Not good.
The bank sent a SMS that someone changed my keyword and should notify. It seems to be fake. Not good.
I am sleeping well and have low BP. Auntie N. sleeps better, and her BP is even lower, since she died today. She was 101 and wanted to die.
(*) It was corrected to 3%.
Photo of a camouflaged bag left behind by the special forces, containing weapons disguised as displacement materials.
The Economist's Word of the week: amphidromia, an ancient Greek ceremony during which the father decided whether to keep a baby or abandon it on a hillside.
I tried to look up the word on the internet, and I got other definitions: It was a name-giving ceremony five to seven days after birth. At the amphidromia, friends and relatives would arrive with gifts for the child. Decorations adorned the outside of the house: olive branches for a boy and fillets of wool for a girl. A feast was prepared for the guests, followed by the child being carried around the hearth by a nurse or one of the parents.
No mention anywhere of abandoning the baby on a hillside. The meaning of the ceremony is running around a fire, that is, the father ran around. The newborn was declared legitimate and given a name, or illegitimate and abandoned. It is well known that Spartans killed weak or malformed babies, and all Greeks abandoned most of the newborns. Conclusion: The internet is incredibly censored and softened to present an infantile, saccharine reality. Like the ancient folk tales, where the Big Bad Wolf ate the grandmother and the girl too, while contemporary versions tell some sweet nonsense.
Pic.: Yoruba naming ceremony.
The Wiki explains why Algeria is Algeria:
Between the Nile and the Red Sea were living Bedouin nomad tribes expelled from Arabia for their disruption and turbulency. The Banu Hilal and the Banu Sulaym for example, who regularly disrupted farmers in the Nile Valley since the nomads would often loot their farms. The then Fatimid vizier decided to destroy what he could not control, and broke a deal with the chiefs of these Bedouin tribes..The Fatimids even gave them money to leave.
Whole tribes set off with women, children, elders, animals and camping equipment. Most arrived in Ifriqiya by the Gabes region, arriving 1051. The Zirid ruler tried to stop this rising tide, but with each encounter, the last under the walls of Kairouan, his troops were defeated and the Arabs remained masters of the battlefield. The Arabs usually did not take control over the cities, instead looting them and destroying them.
The invasion kept going, and in 1057 the Arabs spread on the high plains of Constantine where they encircled the Qalaa of Banu Hammad (capital of the Hammadid Emirate), as they had done in Kairouan a few decades ago. From there they gradually gained the upper Algiers and Oran plains. Some of these territories were forcibly taken back by the Almohads in the second half of the 12th century. The influx of Bedouin tribes was a major factor in the linguistic, cultural Arabisation of the Maghreb and in the spread of nomadism in areas where agriculture had previously been dominant. Ibn Khaldun noted that the lands ravaged by the Banu Hilal tribes had become completely arid desert.[88]
Algeria's name derives from the Arabic Jazāʾir Banī Mazghanna (جزائر بني مزغنة, 'islands of Bani Mazghanna')
Nasdaq index rocketed 4% up yesterday, and I estimated that TASE would follow. It did not; it is on red. Is USA tariff agreement with China bad for us? Is HAMAS agreement with President Trump bad for Israel? Israel expected Trump to visit Israel, but he ignored us and went to the wealthy Arabs in Saudi Arabia.
I am lost.
