We are too soft

 The HAMAS criminals have kidnapped two hundred Israelis and are demanding trade in for HAMAS prisioners and to stop the war. We are negotiating and apparently we are going to give them a respite and free a lot of terrorists. I think we are making a big mistake, that we are too soft and they are playing on our sentimental weak points. To eliminate the HAMAS once for all we have to play hardball: for example, to put 400 prisioners and others in front of a "paredon" and start counting down. Every hour one would be executed till they called Uncle. We should never negotiate with criminals. 

There was a story in Argentina. A criminal gang kidnapped a rich man's mother in law and demanded a million dollars. The man did not answer. After some time, the gand sent a note that they felt  sorry for his suffering and would let go the dear old woman for only 500,000 dollars. He did not answer. The next note said that they this lovely old woman told them how much close they were and convinced them to accept a symbolic amount of only ten thousand. Silence. Nothing. No answer. The last note: "Please, have pity on us, come and take back this insufferable old hag! Take her and 10,000 dollars!" 

Bayer falling 30%

Bayer said it is halting a trial for asundexian, an experimental cardiovascular drug. Bayer’s Frankfurt-listed shares (XE:BAYN) fell about 30%. Bayer is a hundred and fifty years old German giant pharma company, tremendously stable, conservatively managed and reliable. Losing a third of its worth in a day or two is most amazing. It means that one third of its worth was the hope for the success of an experfimental drug. I have blind faith in German quality. Just bought German car. 

Rich Man's Portfolio

Warren Buffett’s portfolio:

Apple: $156.8b (50%)

Bank of America: $28.3b (9%)

American Express: $22.6b (7.2%)

Coca-Cola: $22.4b (7.1%) Chevron: $18.6b (5.9%) Occidental: $14.5b (4.6%) Kraft Heinz: $11b (3.5%) Moody’s: $7.8b (2.5%) Others: $31b (10%)

Nekome!

Nothing we can do to them compares with what they did to us.  

We are in trouble

 Dr Eynat Wilf spoke in the Capitol Hill and she explained carefully, point by point, why we are in terrible trouble. She is a leader of the left-wing Labour Party. She teaches in the Reichman University in Tel Aviv. 

Next to my table in TAHAL "worked" an elderly man called Wilf. Curious as I am, one day sat before him and asked what he was doing. He was working on a large genealogy tree, up to the Oppenheimer founder in Switzerland three centuries ago. TAHAL was paradise.  

Gaza WWTP surrounded

 Observing the photo it is clear that the plant is not working, there are no aerators, and the basins are anaerobic (covered with green algae). Under the plant surely there are no tunnels. 

Saved by Reality

 
In Japan and many other countries, the towns and villages are disappearing like magic. In the US nearly half of women under the age of 45 are childless. 

Israel, only two months ago, was well advanced on the same direction. There were large demonstrations with homosexual and Palestine flags, personal enjoyment was being taught in State schools, deeply religious people were attacked on the street, elite fighter pilots and the intelligence services were refusing to serve, there was an active movement to encourage desertion. Barack already saw civil war and bodies floating in the Yarkon river. In kibbutz Beeri there was an informal school to teach the techniques of civil disobedience and revolt.  

The unexpected contact with reality stopped all these. Pilots are bombing refugee camps full of children and women, young people volunteer to the army, and Beeri - the beautiful garden community of peace and love - is no more.