Dulcinea del Toboso

Y diciendo esto, se adelantó a recebir a las tres aldeanas, y apeándose del rucio, tuvo del cabestro al jumento de una de las tres labradoras, y hincando ambas rodillas en el suelo, dijo:
—Reina y princesa y duquesa de la hermosura, vuestra altivez y grandeza sea servida de recebir en su gracia y buen talente al cautivo caballero vuestro, que allí está hecho piedra mármol, todo turbado y sin pulsos de verse ante vuestra magnífica presencia..."

I am hearing through Librivox the reading of Don Quixote in Spanish. Fifty years ago I had a copy in the Sopena edition, in the original medieval Spanish, and it was quite frustrating. Now they are reading a contemporary Spanish edition, perfectly comprehensible and clear. The second part is very different from the first part, in this sequel the fact of lineage is present in every second sentence, like Sancho's "I am Cristiano Viejo, Catolico Romano and hate the Jews to death". And "my Father Panza and all the Panzas were Old Christians, labradores (peasants), etc." Cervantes, obviously, needs the Church's permission to print this work, but it is surprising that in 1600 (the last Jew left Spain a hundred years before) he feels the need of a constant emphasis in not having Jewish blood and being good old Catholics. In addition to the references to Jews, in every occasion the rank and the wealth of the personages is clearly defined. Those were times of ethnic cleansing in Spain, and Cervantes is sympathetic to the Moor expulsees. When Don Quixote is hosted by the Duke, he sends a servant girl to his bedroom "to help him undress", which puritanical Quixote rejects - he wants to be faithful to his Dulcinea. Anyway, it is very entertaining. 

Bad day at the Stock Exchange

There have been imperceptible changes in the world, which are starting to exert pressures and stresses. The EU is in chaos, Merkel is weak and Britain is rudderless. The hostility between the USA and China is deepening, Japan is re-arming, Australia is prospering and becoming a regional power. The government in Israel is unstable and rivalries are hardening. My NASDAQ portfolio lost weight in the last week, and today TASE has followed downwards. Bank Hapoalim lost 5% and other heavy stocks are crumbling. The diamond companies of Lev Levaiev are paralyzed and the employees interrogated by the police (pic). A female executive jumped from the TASE building and instantly solved her difficulties. The police asked to jail the Minister of Interior, Arieh Dery, for something related to the financing of his new palace in Jerusalem. 

Bad day at work

Pic: New project, a gym in Kanion Azrieli, Ramla. The planning team visited the place with the managers of the center. I started to develop my ideas of how the gym will solve various difficulties (the building lies on a concrete platform) and while I was talking full of enthusiasm, creativity, momentum - our Arschloch leader told me to shut up. Later this Chernozhopyi explained that in the first meeting we should just hear and not talk.

I am rejecting projects: I am overscheduled and tired. 

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.