If you thought NSO Group and their Pegasus spyware was bad… well you were right. But these assholes are possibly worse, and doing nothing but damage to societies that cannot be possibly defended with any excuse.
Saved for reference during my next trip.
Gotta get my hummus fix.
When you find yourself on the same side as Hassan Nasrallah, Louis Farrakhan and David Duke on the question of a country’s right to exist, it’s time to re-examine every opinion you hold.
This article is the counterpoint to another recent and logically incoherent New York Times article by Michelle Goldberg titled "Anti-Zionism Isn’t the Same as Anti-Semitism".
Anti-Zionism is the denial to grant the Jewish People their right to self-determination, which is without a doubt Anti-Semitic.
This article is worth a read, if anything for being honest about facts and history.
I recently finished watching The Expanse and I've got no show to watch. Here's a few suggestions to myself.
Note: These are the schools run by the U.N. in the Palestinian territories of Gaza, Judaea and Samaria. The United Nations. And they are written by the Palestinian Ministry of Education, part of the Palestinian Authority which signed the Oslo Accords and officially recognizes Israel, not by Hamas.
So while the U.N. and the U.S. admonish Israel for expanding the settlements, Palestinian children are raised and educated by the U.N. to believe that the State of Israel itself is completely illegitimate.
This is not simply "anti-Israel bias". This is not pursuing a "Two State Solution". This is anti-Semitic bullshit.
This is a very interesting behind the scenes look at a piece of recent history.
I bet a lot of countries are thankful now that Israel took this step.
Very interesting article on the KGB's views of, attitude, and actions against Israel in the 70's.
"Beyond the historical interest in stories about the KGB’s war on world Jewry, it’s important to note that Russia is currently controlled by the agency's graduates. "
Scary.
UNESCO's vote denying historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem is some of the most sickening, blatant antisemitism to come out of the UN recently. You don't vote on history, just like you don't vote to decide whether 2+2 is 4 or 4.5. This is historical revisionism at it worse, comparable to Holocaust denial.
I'm outraged and insulted that Mexico voted for it (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4866113,00.html)
Also of note, the statement of UNESCO's Director-General AGAINST the resolution: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/statement_by_the_director_general_of_unesco_on_the_old_city-1/#.WAEBQaOZOEI
Many believe that water scarcity due to population growth and climate change would be a central factor in future conflict. For Israel specifically, it's a huge source of tension with neighbors. Here's a technological solution to prevent this. As they say: Necessity is the mother of invention.
"Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants."
"...the national water authority built innovative water treatment systems that recapture 86 percent of the water that goes down the drain and use it for irrigation — vastly more than the second-most-efficient country in the world, Spain, which recycles 19 percent."
Visualization of the recent wave of (mostly) stabbing attacks in Israel.
This is a big deal for Israel, where historically there hasn't been enough fresh water for its population.
Rough words from the former head of the Mossad. Bibi is doing tremendous harm in his posturing for earning votes.
Today's analysis of what happened in Gaza yesterday pretty much describes the situation there for decades.
This is a good article because it is an in-depth analysis rather than the usual shallow reporting. Good for those who want to understand what makes Abbas tick.
The choice of terminology used by news is a subtle but key factor in how it is interpreted, especially by the least knowledgeable readers. To deny or failure to mention that this site is the site of the Temple and the holiest site for Jews is a grave omission. In a piece of news I read yesterday, the note mentioned that this thing started when an activist Jew was demanding the right to pray "in Islam's second holiest site" without mentioning that it is Judaism's absolute holiest site.
Interesante, ahora los árabes cristianos en Israel ya no son catalogados como árabes y fue por su propia decisión.
No shit, Sherlock.
This will be the weirdest thing you read today.
The lesson is: maybe taking the numbers given out by a terrorist organization at face value is not the best thing to do
Straight from the horse's mouse. Very sick.
Most of the international press has focused on the recent fighting but hasn't covered what the causes of this round are. This is one of the few analysis. Another one is here: http://www.kforcegov.com/NightWatch/NightWatch_14000155.aspx
In Hamas' sick demented logic, a dead Israeli in the hands of Hamas is good for their cause, and a dead Palestinian in the hands of Israel is also good for their cause. While Israel sends civilians to bomb shelters, Hamas uses them as human shields, and hides weapons in houses, schools, hospitals, mosques.
Very interesting letter exchange between two prominent Jews with different perspectives.
One one hand it's an embarrassment. But on the other hand it's heartening to see Israel's strong judicial system. I probably will never see the equivalent happening in Mexico.
This nonprofit wants to take the Google Lunar X Prize (GLPX) competition and make Israel the fourth (after the U.S., Russia, China) country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Interesting inside take on the boycott of goods produced in the territories. Are they harming who they intend to harm? Are Israeli companies not supposed to invest and set up facilities there and provide employment to the local population?
Eight years after the stroke that put him in a coma, he is finally resting. Quite the life story, worth reading the article.
Waltz with Bashir was a pretty good movie.
Get them while they're young? Educating towards hatred is a very difficult thing to reverse later in life.
"In one recent case they simulated an attack on a small Israeli fort." Get them while their young.
This is a very bad turn of events. Fayyad is perhaps the only true statesman in the PLO, someone whose real top interest is in building a viable Palestinian State rather than focusing on enemies or succumbing to corruption.
Editorial about Amir Peretz, who got no respect as Defense Minister, was mocked and now politically gone. Yet he is the man behind the Iron Dome, which is now saving lives.
Interesting analysis on the current fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Interesting article about Michael Oren who is in the difficult position of being Israel's ambassador to the US in the time of Bibi and Obama.
Michael Oren is a historian and wrote one of my all-time favorite books: Six Days of War.
Very interesting story about Israel's attack on the Syrian nuclear reactor. Five years ago, before Bashar Assad started killing thousands of his own citizens in order to stay in power. The world hasn't done anything about it yet, but you can be sure the odds of the world doing something thwould be even lower hadn't Israel done this.
Kind of like what happened with the Iraqi nuclear reactor.
The most antisemitic speech yet by Ahmadinejad.
· "The Quds Day is not merely a strategic solution for the Palestinian problem, as it is to be viewed as a key for solving the world problems; any freedom lover and justice seeker in the world must do its best for the annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the path for the establishment of justice and freedom in the world."
This is a step in the right direction and other countries should adopt similar laws.
Saudi #hacker that revealed Israeli credit card numbers is really a Mexican barista script-kiddie: http://t.co/RzuvCPLq #Israel #Mexico
It never seems to go out of fashion.
Great, now I can have Google misunderstand my Hebrew accent just like Siri does with my English accent!
If you want to see some cool pictures, do a Google Image search for "quasicrystals".