The Basra Project

The Jewish Brigade served with the British Army during WWII guarding the oil fields. After the war they returned to Palestine and founded an agricultural settlement in the Sharon region. Near Raanana. They called it Basra. It prospered mightily. The pic shows the monument to the fallen - leaves in a graveled Japanese garden.

We are building a coffee shop. The sight is beautiful.  

About those smart apes

The idea of taming apes to perform human work has been tried many times and never succeeded. Simply, there is no way to convince an ape to do anything for us: no feeding handicapped persons, no guiding blind persons,  no pushing coal carts in mines, no fighting as heroic soldiers in our battles. That's not all. Many tried to measure the muscular force of a chimp, since it is estimated that they are three or four times stronger than us, but they totally refuse to lift heavy weights or pull the handles of dynamometers. Of course they understand what is required from them, to pull forcefully a handle, and they understand they will be paid handsomely for the exercise, but they refuse to co-operate.

Only Homo sapiens and mules can be trained to slave for others. 

Cutting the trees to increase water resources

The catchment of the Amandel River, which feeds Theewaterskloof Dam from the north east, contains little other than water-hungry alien trees. Photo: Big Oak Adventures 

Cape Town will clear foreign/invasive species from catchment areas. The concept is contrary to the Israeli ecological "green" doctrine that deforestation and desertification reduce water availability. Here each tree has been catalogued and killing trees (including foreign, water consuming species like Eucaliptus) is a crime. I think our regulation is crazy.

"The Nature Conservancy study found that R372 million could fund a 30-year programme to clear invasive trees and prevent them from returning in the seven priority sub-catchments that supply three-quarters of Cape Town’s water. As well as being cheaper, this ‘green’ option would deliver more new water than each of the other options."

They thought this was the Berlin Wall

During the last month the Palestinians of Gaza organized mass demonstrations facing the border fence with Israel, occasionally trying to break through and enter in their thousands to Israel. They calculated that resistance would meet international condemnation, and if some Palestinian boy may get hurt - killed while filmed by the CNN would be the best - the will to resist would collapse. The shade of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where Serbia and Laos leaders are waiting their death sentences, would intimate our leaders. The European Union had been financing for years "human rights" campaigns to demoralize Tzahal, the Israeli Defense Forces, documenting any infraction of their super-humanist theology. A blond Arab (Yugoslavian in fact) girl spitting on an impassive soldier was feasted all over Europe as a heroine, daring to stand up to an armed Israeli occupation soldier. The prognosis was that Israel would be unable to stop the unarmed invasion by innocent Arab youth.

What happened? Small teams of Israeli snipers took aim at the legs of those approaching the fence. A routine developed where the advance ranks of the invaders were followed by medics and ambulances. A thousand were wounded and a hundred killed. No one hurt in our side. Universal condemnation of Israel. Then the campaign then petered out and died.

Conclusion: If we had fallen victims to the sophisticated demoralization campaign of the EU, and let ourselves be convinced by their suicidal propaganda of absolute human rights, our soldiers would have refrained of shooting live fire on unarmed underage demonstrators while being filmed by the CNN. Our military and political leaders, already frightened to travel to certain European countries, would not be courageous enough to give the order to shoot.

The EU is a hidden enemy of Israel, very dangerous. 

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.