Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Rising

Counterintuitively, the TASE 35 index is rising.   Also, the US dollar is rising. These two parameters are very important for me since I have a large debt to pay in a few weeks. The economic situation of Israel is healthy, the communal riots are limited to a few poor mixed towns, and the big question is if foreign investors (like pension funds) will be frightened by biased media reports and doctored pictures and take their monies to safer coasts. 
 

The Arabs Smell Weakness in Israel's Government

 

In fact, it is worse than that. We have a transition government without the mandate to take decisions. The nation is divided into two enemy camps and no workable coalition - even after four consequent elections - can be agreed. One intelligence eminence on YNet said that the government (lead by Netanyahu) cannot give the order to counter-attack and stop the missiles because the leftist opposition would protest, call for civil disobedience and reserve soldiers may desert. We are in a bad position. We need a legitimate government, but our sordid politicians hate each other and cannot agree. In Hebrew: Sinat Hinam, Hate for No Reason At All. 

The Arabs are starting to annoy me

I worked hard on upgrading the KATZAA oil terminal kitchen and dining room near Ashkelon. Got paid 80% of my fees. The rest was to be paid after the actual completion of the building. 

Last night a rocket hit the oil tanks (pic) and black smoke reached 30-40 m high illuminating most of the South. 

When, if ever, shall I be paid? The Palestinian behaviour is starting to irritate me. 

HAMAS blocks Leftist Government in Israel

 

We are in the middle of the organization of a Leftist government in Israel. The participation of Abbas, the leader of the Islamist party, is absolutely necessary to reach the 61 votes needed to form a government. This afternoon, the Islamists in Gaza fired missiles at Jerusalem (pic), and Zahal's response makes it impossible for Abbas to co-operate with the Zionists. The inflexible Arab Code of Honor paralyzes him. On the other hand, those crazy feminists and corrupt Russians will stay powerless. Which is very good. 

Ella

 

She is growing nicely. I live and work only for them. 

A Jerusalem Paradox

Efforts to form a unity government made significant progress in marathon talks over the weekend, but the coalition could be endangered due to the skirmishes over Muslim prayer in Jerusalem that upset Ra'am (United Arab List) head Mansour Abbas.

Abbas's four votes supporting the coalition from outside are key to establishing a new government. Obtaining a majority of 61 requires Ra'am's votes to join the 57 of Yesh Atid, Blue and White, Labor, Israel Beytenu, Meretz, New Hope, and Yamina, which is down to six votes without rebel MK Amichai Chikli.

The Arab protests in Jerusalem may become the obstacle to the creation of a pro-Palestinian, left-wing government in Israel.  

Google shows only pics of brutal Jewish police persecuting unseen protesters. It is biased and political. The world is against us.

Second Thoughts on INTEL

Coffee makes me sleepy in mid-morning, it weakens the tyranny of my Superego, letting me be assaulted by troublesome doubts about INTEL. The Asians have been outcompeting and destroying, one after another, Western industries. It started with the transistor, invented by Americans in 1947, which the Japanese made synonym with a small battery-operated radio. Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic destroyed Emerson, Raytheon, Westinghouse, Sylvania, Phillips. The American television industry was erased from the face of the Earth and the only TVs on the market are Korean or Japanese. Who remembers Admiral, Sylvania, Zenith?  Sony walkman created a new industry. The Japanese started to make hand-watches, and the old Swiss watchmaking industry suddenly disappeared like the Neanderthals, and Rollex and Doxa which were the non-plus-ultra cannot be found anymore, only as luxury collector's items. The photograph market was invented and dominated by Kodak for a century, and the Polaroid, suddenly was no more and Japanese digital cameras took over. I remember the American auto industry, the enormous Ford and General Motors factories, which are ruins, and their shares. worthless. Toyota, Subaru, etc. utterly destroyed these admired and apparently indestructible champions. After such a pattern of defeats, what are the chances of INTEL?  

I do not want to follow this line of reasoning to its logical end.