Jews need to stop thinking about appearances. A common complaint is that my articles present Israel in bad light to the outside world. The alternative, presumably, is to keep quite about anti-Semitic policies of assimilationist Israeli government. The only proper policy is to end the destruction of Jewish state by Israeli government – by whatever means. Exposing the ruling clique to the outside world is the least evil. For millennia, Jews had the guts to stand against the world opinion and isolate ourselves from the world rather than to seek its approval. Jews can only get the approval in two ways: by dying out, whether physically or through assimilation, or by being strong, different from others, and proud of it. Gentiles recognize and instinctively detest assimilationist mimicry, a cheap trick that attempts to fool them. Jews need not care how we look with the world. Just do our part well, and be respected.
UN boss regrets the 1947 partition
The UN’s Ban Ki Moon called Abu Mazen to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian catastrophe, Naqba. The catastrophe means the founding of the Jewish state in accordance with the UN resolution.
Israel’s UN mission responded by petitioning the UN to avoid using the term “naqba”. As if that changes anything for 1.5 million of Israeli Arabs.
Saudi Arabia accuses US speculators of oil price hikes
The Saudi princeling refused Bush’s request to increase the oil production in order to stem the price hike. According to Saudi king, his country supplies all the oil the customers ask for and there is no unfulfilled demand. That statement is technically wrong, as oil demand might dwindle in response to rising prices, and so Saudi Arabia would always face the exact demand it is willing to supply.
Presently, however, there are no signs of dwindling demand. Modern economy is much more energy-efficient than in 1970s and weathers the rising oil prices well.
Russian oil supply increased considerably over the years. Iraq is nominally pumping approximately the pre-war volume, but really much more as black market supply goes out from Kurdistan. The oil hike price is entirely attributable to commodity speculators who profit from the irrelevant instability in Iraq.
In the crazy post-modern world, corporate fascism and liberalism work for the same goals: oil corporations profit immensely from the rising prices, and liberals protest imposition of the “colonial” supply requirements onto Iraq and Kuwait, ostensibly liberated and surely controlled by the US, and on Saudi Arabia which the US protects from Iran.
Bush goes to Riyadh
Israel’s best friend and a great peacemaker (just like Jimmy Carter was) finished celebrating Israel’s Independence Day and now flies to Saudi Arabia, the prime sponsor of Wahhabite Islam and terrorism worldwide, a sponsor for the Pakistani nuclear program. Bush will spend a day at the royal horse farm near Riyadh with the horse owner.
Blair: Ever better training for Palestinian guerrillas
The Quartet envoy praised the excellent skills of the Fatah “police” which they will unleash on Hamas - or on Israel.
100,000 Russian Israelis gather for abomination
of visiting Russian pop-singers in Tel Aviv. Sort of a Jewish identity.
Barak: The time is not right for Sderot to live
The Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced he curtails his urge to attack Gaza and waits for the proper time to attack Hamas. It remains unclear why the time was not proper two years ago or now, or what Hamas has to do with PIJ and PRC attacks on Israel.
Ehud Barak promised the end to rocket attacks from Gaza within several months. It seems the army prepares for the confrontation with Iran, and don’t want to be bogged down in Gaza but relies on ending the Iranian support for the Palestinian guerrillas.
In fake video, Osama Bin Laden thrashes Israel
The tape sports a voice which doesn’t sound like Bin Laden’s old tapes, and a still picture dating back some years. Of course, if Al Qaeda wanted to post Osama’s speech, a normal video would have been prepared.
The fake Osama lashed at length at Israel for oppressing the poor Palestinian terrorists and vowed to defend every inch of the land the Palestinians consider theirs.
Peres, Jewish rich set to destroy the Dead Sea
Shimon Peres finally arranged private financing for his Red Sea - Dead Sea channel from Jewish billionaires. Ex-Soviet Jews readily recognize the communist mega-projects of turning the rivers backwards and connecting the seas.
A multibillion-dollar project spells ecological catastrophe for the Dead Sea and creates up to a million jobs primarily for Jordanians.
Outgoing IAF chief confesses
that under political orders he routinely endangers Israeli pilots to low-altitude missions over Gaza, putting Israeli helicopters and fighter jets in the range of Palestinian anti-aircraft fire.
Good Muslims bomb Christian school in Gaza
early in the morning, with no children present. The school is messianic, caters to Muslims. Hamas vowed to investigate.
More lies from Bush
Some of the quotes from Bush’s speech in Jerusalem:
“Muslims will realize the injustice of their [Hamas] cause.” Oh yeah. The incorruptible Hamas is unjust, and the US-propped Fatah thugs are the justice incorporated.
“America won’t break ties with Israel.” Sure, it will rather break Israel, forcing her to give Judea to Muslims.
“[Iran], the world’s leader of terrorism, must not be allowed to obtain the deadliest weapons.” In case Bush missed it, the world’s premier sponsor of terrorism is Saudi Arabia, full of Bush’s cronies. Another Islamic state, Pakistan, provides the largest numbers of terrorists with safe haven and has nuclear weapons, about which Bush does nothing. He is only concerned with Iranian nuclear weapons because they threaten Saudi Arabia, not Israel.
Bush pronounced young Palestinian suicide bombers “innocent children” to whom the evil ones strap the explosive belts.
Bush showed his great understanding of the world’s affairs saying that Hamas and Hezbollah fight Israel because she’s a beacon of liberty. Not only the liberties in Israel would sound rather fascist to most Americans (censorship, administrative detention of Jews without charges, imprisoning for political expression, sentencing of minors for political dissent), but Hamas and Hezbollah fight Israel for a different reason: they want the Jews out from what they believe is Arab land. (And that’s why we should expel the Arabs whose hostility is unrelenting.)
Trying to be funny, Bush said that the Palestinian people will eventually get a democratic state governed by the law, respectful of human rights, and free of terrorism.
Jerusalem sold to Russia
Israeli Foreign Minsitry confirmed that a prime piece of real estate in Jerusalem, “A Russian Compound” will be abandoned to anti-Semitic Russia in 2-3 months. Russia bases its claim on the Jerusalem land on the century-old title by a long-extinct tsarist charity.
Jerusalem is full of Orthodox churches in the direct violation of the Torah ban on foreign worship in the Land of Israel.
Russia doesn’t even consider returning Jews thousands of the synagogues confiscated by communists.
Iran: We’ll negotiate on anything but nukes
Iran’s offer to the UN includes vague economic and energy talks but not the Iranian nuclear program. Iran also denounced the latest round of the UN sanctions as illegal - which is true, as Iran is a Non-Proliferation Treaty member and the US intelligence report sais it lacks a weapons program.
Barak: Wait till the Palestinians run out of rockets
Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised to residents of Ashkelon that the rocket attacks from Gaza won’t last forever if only the Jews are patient. Barak acknowledged that IDF’s targeted strikes on Gaza don’t prevent rocket attacks.
Army tear gassed Gazans
at Erez Crossing, made warning shots after dozens of friendly Arabs hurled stones on the troops guarding the Israeli border.
Hezbollah wins the Lebanon conflict
The US-propped Lebanese government rescinded its two symbolic measures taken against Hezbollah: demoting the security head of the Beirut airport (the major link in smuggling weapons from Tehran) and taking down Hezbollah’s TV station for incitement.
The week of civil unrest left only 82 Arabs killed in Lebanon.
Investigation against Olmert turns idiotic
The police brought a star witness in the interrogation of a rich American Jew Daniel Abraham: the taxi driver claims to have witnessed the transfer of envelopes full of cash from Abraham to Olmert.
Really, the mayor of Jerusalem accepts bribes personally, on the street, in the taxi, in many envelopes.
Austria has no obligation to prevent Iran from going nuclear,
was the message during the state-controlled OMV company shareholder meeting. Austrian OMV is engaged in a major gas project in Iran in circumvention of the US and EU sanctions.
Does Israel, however, have an obligation to refrain from blowing the OMV offices in Vienna?
Abbas demands return of refugees
and Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Palestine before the Arab crowds commemorating the Naqba, Palestinian catastrophe of founding the Jewish state.
Israel files a third complaint against Hamas
in the UN for rocket attacks from Gaza. Olmert’s government is always ready to defend Israeli citizens.
International solidarity of thieves and oil racketeers
Chinese support for Syria’s demands for return of the Golan Heights illustrates a major shift in China’s policy. Traditionally isolationist, China increasingly embarks on global approach. In the world of competing empires, trade is intertwined with politics. Trade balance, oil deliveries, arms sales, and similar high-ticket notions exist in the framework of intergovernmental relations.
Huge empires like China traditionally tolerated lawlessness in their remote border areas. In the information society, border infringements are publicized, interpreted as weakness, and diminish reputation and endanger the affected state. Suddenly in the need to secure its borders, China has to cooperate with Vietnam, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Russia, Iran, and Central Asia – the earth’s trouble zone. Learning from the US blockade of Japan in WWII, China works hard to secure oil supplies and diversify its export markets. Chinese diaspora in many countries offers an opportunity to expand Chinese influence too tempting to forgo.
China will not attack the US. Japan, too, did not intend to invade the Continental US when it attacked the Pearl Harbor. China, like Japan before the WWII, is simply a great menace. Nuclear proliferation, arms sales, pragmatic foreign alliances without regard to consequences for other countries, oil and gas purchases from rogue regimes, circumvention of sanctions on pariah states, and institutional hostility toward America make China dangerous.
Still, the West finances China by doing business with it, provides China with access to international capital markets instead of cutting that lifeline, and most importantly allows China to steal Western products and technologies. Everyone knows that China engages in the worst form of robbery – pirating of hi-tech goods and technologies – but the West tolerates the theft. The West provides China with free access to the most valuable franchise – knowledge. Western parents and taxpayers finance universities and Western consumers pay for corporate research by purchasing new products. China obtains the fruits of Western theoretical and applied research for the price of subscription to scientific magazines.
The West’s lamentations over its inability to counter China’s massive theft of intellectual property are untrue. Though China cannot be sent to conventional jail as any other thief, it could be made a jail by economic blockade.
Why toast falls butter side down
The answer is unrelated to Murphy’s Law or to bad luck. Note how you hold the toast: at an end, not at the middle. If you hold a toast with both hands horizontally and then release it, the toast will fall butter side up.
A toast held at one end acts like a lever. When you relax the grip, the toast doesn’t fall straight but turns first. Imagine a lever hinged on one end: when released, it falls by turning around the hinges. So the toast turns down first on the hinges of your thumb and forefinger, and only then slips from your hand and falls down.
The moment of rotation pushes the toast beyond a 90-degree angle. A lever dropped while hinging on one end, will gain momentum and pass the vertical-down position. A falling toast doesn’t have enough time to stabilize at the vertical-down position like a pendulum. After initially passing the vertical-down point, the toast appears butter side slightly down and falls thus.
The inertia is not sufficient for the toast to keep turning over. As the toast slips from fingers, the hinges are lost. The toast continues falling in butter-down position.
Additionally, you hold the toast with your fingers removed from the butter layer as much as possible – almost at the bottom. With a thick toast, such a position increases the moment of rotation: imagine lightly holding a parallelepiped at the bottom near the edge.
The rotation effect is pronounced for elongated toasts. Very small round toast, held at the middle, could fall on any side.
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