Happy End to the Last Week's War

This morning it was announced that a ceasefire has been reached between the Islamic Jihad and Israel. In short: Israel fired a missile into the Jihad's military leader's bedroom, killing him and his wife, and they responded by firing 500 missiles to the Israeli South. 60% of the missiles fell in open fields, and 90% of the others was intercepted. 10% destroyed buildings, but people was in the refuges and there were no casualties. The most important achievement is the detachment of the Jihad, a terrorist organization, from Hamas, the religious movement that rules Gaza. Dividing the enemy is half victory. 

On the impermanency of borders

The King of Transjordan demanded the return of two border farms that "belonged" to his kingdom. We ceded them without protest. Borders are not sacred, they move and change all the time. The  seventy post-WWII years of fixed borders are an anomaly, explained by America's supremacy. But that, unfortunately, is changing. The next era will see large corrections. President Macron, in an interview to The Economist, insinuates just that.

To understand my point, look at the map of Central Europe around 1860. All the East is Hungarian, to the Adriatic. Prussia and Austria are the largest states. What is Konigsreich? Grossherzogtum? The Kingdom of Sardinia? Never heard of them. In a few generation no one will know that Gaza had existed. 

Proportionality in Gaza

The IDF is restraining its response to the current bombardment of the South of Israel out of respect of a fundamentally wrong international humanitarian and legal principle called proportionality. This European concept means that the punishment returned to the attacker must be equal to the actual hurt. When someone comes to kill you but he succeeds only to cut your little finger, you are not allowed to beat his brains out but just to sever his little finger with anesthetics, and no more. Eye for eye, etc. Game theory also says that the best rule is tit-for-tat or tit-for-two tats. Is it so? Most people in Israel think that our response should be to level Gaza like the Allies did in Dresden (pic). Revert Gaza to its pristine, sustainable habitat of grassland for goats and camels. Prof. Victor Davis Hanson thinks proportionality in war is stupid and wrong. He is right. 

تماس با ما

It is funny but my computer is receiving recruitment posters from intelligence organizations. I am an old old (there are old and there are old old) Hungarian Jew who never had  to do with intelligence and have none. I copied the writing shown in the title, something in Persian. I am very busy, preparing a lecture on WWTP design, collecting money (the most difficult task of all) and babysitting for my granddaughter Shkeddy. 

Searching for a rational Palestinian

Well we have liquidated the leader of the Jihad Islami of Gaza. We did it for the Hamas, an enemy we can make agreements with. We are working for a rational Palestinian leadership. Should a Gazan leader volunteer for the position, we shall help him to take power. This is an equal employer advertisement. 

Animal Rights: How many non-human CEOs are in America?

I am all for Animal Rights. It is not enough to have females and trans whatever in the workforce and in the management, and pay them the same salaries as hard working White males, the discrimination against animals should be ended immediately! According The Economist, there are only 3% Africans in the management class. But what is the percentage of animals? Zero! ZERO! Why are they discriminated, oppressed, genocyded? Just because they have furry skins? We are all creatures of God, we are born with equal rights, there are no races and no animals/humans, we are the same under the skin. Fight against animal discrimination!

May be it is not 0% animals in management. I know ONE who is an animal. 

Third of Flint's Children Diagnosed Morons

The New York Times published another fake article on the Flint Water Poisoning Case. They note that before the "crisis", 15% of Flint schoolchildren had been diagnosed … give me a non-offensive word for morons please... as having some slight difficulties in school. After the National Emergency declared by Obama, a diagnosing center was established and found that today, 28% of the children are you know what. NYT says that the cause of the doubling of cases is the high lead content of the Flint River supplied to the schools.

The NYT has excellent fact checkers (Hi Jim!) but they oversaw the fact that the Flint River was and is lead-free and the lead in the faucets came from the lead pipes of Flint's dilapidated old houses.  As soon as lead in the drinking water was discovered, free bottled water was supplied to the residents. No health effect could be established and probably there was none. A similar lead poisoning in Hong Kong around the same time was dismissed as no health damage could be proved, and you never heard about it again.

But the New York Times loves the story and recycles it time after time to hammer down in the public's mind that those unfortunate Blacks morons, unable to function in society, are victims of White racism. (BTW, the lead leaked from the pipes because the City employees - diverse from top to bottom - stole the monies for buffering chemicals).

Whatever the cause, the fact that a third of Flint children are morons is shocking. Presumably, the population of Flint represents America's Black school population. The media systematically hides and obscures this issue, and the NYT published it only because it could blame it on "racism" or "environmental injustice". Still, 30% morons is a horrible, insolvable problem and America is not dealing well with it.

I read the NYT article in the local fishwrap HaAretz, that translates and publishes these articles for the education of the Israeli public. It may have the unexpected effect of immunizing us against NYT's ideology, so we vote for Netaniyahu. I certainly do.