LGBT Reconversion in Israeli Politics

Netaniyahu decided to dissolve the government and held elections in November because the Blue and White faction voted for the Reconversion Bill. That is, forbidding the therapy because it harms the patient to the point that it is classified as a form of torture. The young homo is shown homoerotic videos while receiving electric shocks and vomiting pills. The idea is associating in his mind homosexual activities with pain and disgust. The religious parties are for it, the liberal left against, because it is not a disease nor a deviation. Homos enjoy more and better sex than straights, and that is good. Putin put it concisely:  I dont care, only stay away from the children. 

30% Capital Loss

I keep working hard and saving, but the value of my savings is falling. In the six months of corona since January 2020, about a third of my savings in the bourse are gone. This in addition to my previous losses on TEVA stock. The corona epidemic has created a worldwide depression and disorder, and the perspectives are not encouraging. The current valuation of the shares is maintained by artificial injection of freshly printed paper (aka "money"), which may evaporate in any second.

The presidential election is driving America crazy. Trump is sending troops to occupy the burning cities. The West has realized that Chinese industrial success has destroyed its industries. It is Europe 1925 once more and the only solution is the physical destruction of Chinese infrastructure or waiting till it collapses spontaneously through aging.

In the West, the population replacement is proceeding fast. The British high aristocracy has legitimated it. The new generation in France is about 50% North African, what will the consequences of such a dilution of native population? Maybe none. Maybe we shall get used to it and notice nothing. Maybe the West will be like the Caribbean, and future generations will enjoy the marimba and the chachacha.  

Meeting the Enemy in Oxford

Jabotinsky, the leader of the pre-State Zionist Right, was of the opinion that the diplomatic victories achieved in the Versailles Peace Conference were nice but ultimately a homeland is not "given" by imperialists but has to be conquered with blood. The Zionist movement was "given" half of Palestine (this side of the river Jordan) but it was unable to occupy all the land assigned to it. The small yishuv (Jewish population) of some 600,000 lost 10,000 dead in the war of independence and Ben Gurion gave up and signed the Rhodes ceasefire. I asked my uncle Bela Abeles, an IDF Colonel, why they stopped, and he told me that simply, the yishuv was exhausted. The Arab Legion, a Jordanian force financed, trained and led by the British, defended Jerusalem and we could not defeat it. (pic)

Twenty years ago took my daughter Ayala to Paris Disneyland and then hired a car and toured England. Each 5 PM we looked for a B&B to spend the night. Thus we got to knew many real English homes and real people, not only castles (which are also notable, for example the one in Edinburgh). In Oxford we could not find a B&B - we were touring without a plan, without previously secured stops (causing tremendous stress to my wife) - and at last a helpful English soul directed us to a widow living alone in a big house who may take us in for the night. It was the home of a retired career soldier - a former officer of the Jordanian Legion.

The room we received had no beds and the door could not be locked. I was worried for my daughter, and did not sleep all night. In the morning, the big Englishman prepared a generous nice ham and eggs breakfast for us, and told us some innocent stories of Aqaba. Like all Englishmen, he was extremely nice and friendly to his Israeli visitors, dissipating our terror. Thus I got to meet "the enemy". We paid and continued our tour. In Blackpool I tasted the famous fish and chips delicacy, threw up, my girls hated the freezing North Atlantic wind and storm, we moved back to London and the balmy air of Kfar Saba.

A forgotten page of Zionist history

After WWI the Paris Peace Conference to distribute the world among the victors. President Wilson of the USA was an impractical idealist and a very sick person, and he had no influence on the outcome. Italy was ungoverned, as always. Russia was paralyzed by the civil war. Basically, the Middle East was divided up between England and France.

England had promised the Middle East to the King of Hejaz, and Palestine had been promised to the Jews. Dr Weizman, Judge Brandeis, Rabbi Wise, Professor Frankfurter and Mr Sokolov shepherded the Balfour Declaration through the negotiations to be included in the final settlement. Opposing these Zionist were... not the Arabs, but assimilationist Jews like Edwin Montagu, Claude Montefiore,  Jacob Schiff, Louis Marshall, Mayer Sulzberger, Henry Morgenthau. They felt that Zionism endangered the tranquility of wealthy Western Jews. The Zionist promised to demand British protectorate and join the British Commonwealth like Canada, Australia, South Africa. Weizman signed an agreement with (bribed?) King Faisal (pic) so he will not oppose the Zionists.

The Zionists won. But only partially, in the last moment half of Palestine was given to a relative of the Hejazi king, who at that time had conquered Damascus and was advancing towards Turkey. The Arabs speak till now of the English having betrayed them. We Zionists were half betrayed and have been working with incredible perseverance a hundred years to correct this situation.

BTW, the Versailles Peace Conference failed spectacularly. It resulted in a second WW and in permanent disorder in the Middle East. 

Greece, Egypt, Israel preparing for war against Turkey

Greece wants to buy French frigates (pic) to counter Turkish claims to its territorial waters. Another priority for the Hellenic Navy is upgrading four MEKO-type frigates by Lockheed Martin and the construction of four new MMCS frigates by 2025. Both Greece and Turkey are members of the North Atlantic Alliance.The dispute is about a gas pipeline from Cyprus to Italy to supply the European market. Israel is one partner in the project. Egypt is also aligned with Greece. 

Four Eyes Meets Five Eyes

As a child, I was called Four- Eyes, because of my Coca Cola bottle bottom glasses. Interestingly, there exists a secret alliance of intelligence services with an additional eye, it is called Five-Eyes. Hindu blogger Bhadrakumar writes that ex-CIA Director Pompeo has drawn India into a new ginger group of foreign ministers. This nascent group includes the foreign ministers of Israel, Japan and South Korea. Now, these 3 countries (plus Singapore) also happen to be “third-party contributors” to the Five Eyes — associate members who have been caught or are suspected of exchanging information with the Fourteen Eyes Alliance. The group may be visualized as the hard core of the West. Modi's Pivot toward America means aligning India with the West. I wonder if the out-of-the-box brainstorming sessions of the group are discussing how to divide up China. If Shanghai becomes international once more, it would be nice to have one old neighborhood re-assigned to us. I like China and the Chinese.

How to decolonize myself?

The worst blot in one's character is to be a colonizator  or a colonial master.  I decided to purify myself from this aberration. In my case, I was born and grew up in a central European provincial town, no diversity there. There had been no African slaves ever in the country and being landlocked, it never participated in any overseas colonization project. How can one decolonize oneself if it never was tainted by colonization?

For a start, one has to immerse itself in the colonial experience. I had to buy a Black slave and experience flogging him. In the Sinai peninsula I located a Bedouin tribe that had captured African would-be illegal immigrants to Israel. They were ready to sell me a Darfur boy for 500 dollars. After checking his teeth, I took the offer. I put the boy to plant cotton and sing blues. The cotton failed, I did not like his singing, so put him into goat herding. I bought some animals and rent pasture from the Bedouins. After a while concluded that I was not becoming a true colonial master and the experience was expensive. I paid the Bedouins a hundred dollars to return the slave. Neither Darfur nor the goats felt the difference. In the end, I failed to see the point of colonization and less of decolonization, so I am now back to my engineering job. I am my guilty slave-owner self once again.