How effective are missile attacks?

Yesterday the HAMAS government in Gaza fired 200 missiles to Israeli targets. The results were fires and one slow Arab boy asphyxiated by a fire. Today we are informed of 50 missiles on Ashkelon, and the death of one illegal Arab building contractor,  Mr Mahmood Abu Asmah, 48 y.o., from Hebron. May his innocent soul be admitted to Mohammed's paradise. There are physical damages to the upper stores of buildings, with no casualties.

Israel operates an effective system of compensation for worktime lost because of the emergency, and a fast and generous system of rebuilding the houses affected. No schools, to the joy a students and teachers. The kibbutzim in the North are offering hospitality to those who want to evacuate themselves and enjoy a quiet holiday in the nature.

Missile attacks are ineffective against a disciplined population. Hizballah's leader in Lebanon says that they have 10,000 missiles prepared for Israel, should we be seized by panic? If its killing effectiveness is similar to what we are suffering today, he is talking of 40 victims, mostly Arabs, aged folks that hurt themselves running for cover, and so. Israeli vengeance is never proportional. What says the Bible? Seven for one?

Last night incident in Gaza and continuation

The Government imposed censure on the incident so I can't say much. An Israeli commando camouflaged as Arabs (some of them were really Arabs) entered Gaza and destroyed some advanced electronic equipment. They were discovered and the leader, a Lt. Colonel, was killed in the fight. They all got out of Gaza. The identity of the dead commander cannot be revealed because he was an Arab living in an Arab town, and if known, his family would suffer. There is a growing Arab sector - apart from the Druzes that are not Muslims - that are silent Israeli patriots and even Zionists.

All the day there were exchange of missiles between Gaza and Israel. The army is asking people to download an application to inform about incoming missiles. The emergency zone has been extended to the Dead Sea, as the missiles are having longer range than in the past. In other words, the terrorists have the capability of bombing the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

People is stressed but in terms of material damage and human victims, the Arab attack is insignificant. I think there is one dead, a boy (a luckless innocent Arab) was too slow to escape a burning bus. People in the South are passing the night in the bunkers (a propaganda pic above. They are drinking Smirnoff vodka.) or expecting any minute an SMS that they have 50 seconds to find a refuge.

Up! Up from Depression

Saturday night worked hard to finish the chicken factory of D. in the Shaarey Benjamin Industrial Area, distant one kilometer from Ramallah. The factory is owned by an Israeli Arab, and like the supermarkets and other shops in that "illegal" settlement, is built on Palestinian clients. I feel that Israeli Arabs are super-aware of the opportunities opened up also for them, as part of the dominant nation, in the  territories. They have no fear and they speak perfect Arabic. 

The work was difficult, then I could not sleep and woke up angry with a vivid nightmare: it was the ceremony of presenting the diplomas of the course, everybody was receiving back approved their project papers and their diplomas, and I received a fat file with my many projects and no diploma. The old lady in charge indicated the three page handwritten letter explaining that they had examined carefully but decided to not graduate me.  

How to pull up myself from anger and depression? Start working. I am not in the mood, answered to myself. We  know that you cannot work now, but at least you can move your legs and get out of the bed and open the next plan? I could do that. Up then and start doing, the rest will come by itself. 

So I put myself in motion and worked till now. May be the issue is dehydration, I mean, I have not tasted wine for weeks, I am dry, I need vinegary smelly Rioja wine! Now that I have a clear goal, this night I am going to drink red wine as I recommended by the doctors. "Moderately" - whatever that translates for an old fat Jew. I am enjoying it in advance. Up from depression.    

Kabalat Shabbat

Welcoming the Shabbat in the kinder. The big-headed boy is Geffen. First grandson. He is watching his enemy across the table, that biting bully in blue shirt. 

Light sails

The discovery of the enormous light sail tumbling across the solar system, the oumuamua object, led me to the Planetary Society's light sail project and then to the IKARUS project of JAXA, the Japanese space agency. They have demonstrated the feasibility of the concept and created a technology that seems to me quite advanced, opening up the possibility of managing the sail by controlling its reflectivity, its angle to the sun, and even the way to generate much electricity. Like a sailboat, it can move against the direction the wind, meaning that it can be used to go everywhere. 

Replacing...and Ruling Americans

The refugees are not only replacing "them" American European folks, they are starting to rule them. A clitoris-less Somali Muslim woman, married to her own brother, was elected to the Congress by Minnesota. No friend of Israel at all. Muslims are a big success in America. Not so much in Somalia. 

First Credible Contact with an Alien Space Civilization

The space object we call ‘Oumuamua entered our solar system a year ago, turned and quickly left again. It was represented as a solid cigarlike object but it was not. Now we know it was a thin sheet of 0.3 mm thickness and 16000 sq meter surface. A Harvard paper proposed that it was a light sail from an alien ship. It is the first plausible encounter.