World cup instead of World War

The World Cup

If only real problems could be solved like this by kicking a ball around and deciding the winner by the final score. The level of international incidents seems to have gone down while the games are being played. No one has time to be violent or aggressive. The most interesting team in the tournament has to be North Korea who almost pulled off the biggest upset but in the end lost to Brazil. Many would savor to see a game between them and the United States or South Korea. In fact a game between the North and the South would probably draw the biggest watching audience ever. Probably even bigger than the finals game. It won’t happen as the North will not advance from its present round and even if it did would likely not agree to play South Korea. It’s a game we will never see but we can dream can’t we?

Credit Craziness

The modern western man lives on credit, that just the way it is. It is supposed to be for everyone’s benefit it is told. The individual needs power to purchase now and the banks need to make money on the money it lends out. Credit cards move around all this virtual money that really doesn’t exist.
People often have several credit cards from different banks and run them up to the limits of the cards. They hope to be able to cover the costs of these cards from revenue earned thru spending on the cards or in other methods. More often than not these bills cannot be paid for any number of reasons and then the real troubles begin. The credit card companies demand payment and file legal proceeding to get their money. The owner of all this debt is left with few options. Bankruptcy is one which has very severe ramifications. Very little to no assets can be owned by the owner. Getting credit again will be next to impossible. To get out of debt he can try negotiation with the financial institutions involved and try to work out a deal. This is probably very difficult to do in a one on one setting, that’s where lawyers come in and can get things done. They negotiate for a huge number of clients creating a better negotiation environment for their clients and striking deals that will partially reimburse the creditors and still keep the individual solvent. The credit card companies will sometimes take 40 or 30 cents on the dollar just to recoup some of the losses. It makes you wonder why it is so easy to get one of those cards.
Happy spending.

Europe and its debt

World finances seem to be in deep crisis especially in Europe as the debt crunch and fiscal irresponsibility has taken its toll. Greece has been bailed out at the last minute by Germany and others while other countries teeter on the brink of default. Everybody is talking about this and nobody is going to the root of the problem. In many cases productivity in the private sector are very low and the collection of taxes is lax. In Greece there was widespread tax evasion by wealthy Greeks or so the rumor went. The government continued to float bonds as a way of getting money to pay for its services. These bonds had to have high yield to attract investors. The government then floats new bonds to pay for old bonds and the process never seems to end. Spain and Portugal seem to be next on the hit parade as they teeter on the brink. It seems funny that almost every country in Europe that has a very small Jewish population is on the brink of financial disaster. Spain Portugal Italy Hungary have no Jews to speak of as France England and even Germany seem to be faring a bit better. The last three have Jews especially France and England. The others killed or deported the Jews at some point in their history. There is also a huge amount of private debt accrued by irresponsible individuals. They are all seeking debt management solutions. It’s a huge mess.

The new anti-semitism

Why?

Why has the world been so against the state of Israel and its Jewish inhabitants . Why is most of the world against Israel? It seems pathlogical at times. To say it’s a land for peace problem is factually incorrect. The tiny part of mandatory Palestine that the UN allocated to the Jews was rejected outright by the Arabs. Before 1967 when Judea and Samaria were in Jordanain hands did not stop the Arabs from iniating a war of annihilation against the Jewish state.
Israel and the Jews have produced more Nobel prizes percentage wise than anyone else and have invented and produced too many things to mention here. To be honest there does not seem to be any real explanation for all this. It has to be one of the biggest mysteries of modern times. In medieval times Jews were blamed for being usurers as they were not allowed to own land. Studies have been done trying to explain all this and the conclusions point of some kind of bizarre modern socialism mixed in with some freedom fighting angles. This is just a new cooked up version of anti –semitism even has Jews who support it. In fact some of the most prominent spokesman for this new anti-Jewish movement are Jews themselves. Notable among those is possibly Noam Chomsky who was recently denied entry into Israel.

This new Phenomenon is difficult to perceive as anti-Jewish per say by some as so many high profile Jews are involved. Norman Finklestien Richard Goldstone and many others. These fig leaf Jews give a cover to this new virulent form of Jew hatred. Helen Thomas said it very well when asked her opinion on what is transpiring in Israel. She said the Jews should go back where they came from, Poland Germany.
Many think like this old hag, that’s the dangerous part of all this.

Bleak, very bleak indeed

Now what.

It looks like there will be an international investigation into the Israels policies on the high seas near the Gaza strip. Regardless of who makes up the tribunal itself it will be bad for Israel, very bad. Previous tribunals of this kind almost always had only negative conclusions with regard to Israel and this one will be no different.
It seems that Israel is in one of the most difficult positions that it has been since its founding 62 years ago. The international community is against Israel like never before. Israel’s only real ally has a president who is decidedly not pro Israel in any sense. Iran Is building nuclear weapons and says very clearly that Israel is to be destroyed. Israel’s vaunted military has looked very bad of late making her adversaries less wary of engaging her in battle. There has even been a decision in international forums to reveal the extent of Israel’s own nuclear program. Things are looking bleak indeed.
The only thing that seems to be on Israels side is its robust economy that has done fairly well in a world climate of great difficulty.
What is likely to happen is the following.

Israel will become isolated like never before similar to the situation before the Six-day war. It will be faced with the option of living with a nuclear threat from Iran or removing that threat. It will choose to remove that threat. That will trigger a massive war on all fronts,maybe WW3 that everybody is talking about.

It won’t be pretty.

The Lamb and seventy wolves

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Israel is isolated and blasted for its policies. So what else is new? It’s been like that from the onset except for some isolated incidents. When Israel sent commandoes to free hostages in Entebbe, Uganda 38 years ago the world applauded. These applause are very infrequent to say the least.
Someone should tell all Israel haters and Jew haters for that matter. Israel is here to stay, it just isn’t going to disappear , it will prevail. There is nothing in the world that will make the Jewish state go away. Our enemies think they have found a way to undermine our resolve ( it has worked for some ). We will continue to do what’s best in our own national interest, the world be damned.

The Jews have come home its time the world get used to that fact.

The Israeli left

Gideon Levi, you can always count on him

For those who don’t know who Gideon Levi is I will tell you. He is the most virulent and most famous of the leftist journalists in Israel. He in fact writes a column for the Daily HAARETZ where he spews his venomous views about current events. He always sides with one side in the continuing struggle between Arab and Jew over the biblical land of Israel, the Arab side. He is at times rather eloquent in his darts and diatribes by they are often so filled with hate that the reader is left more impressed with hate than anything else. He correctly states that Israel has become a Pariah in the international arena and he puts the blame squarely on the side of the right wing / extreme right wing.
He is passing the buck on this big time. The fact that Israel is in a difficult position in the international arena is clear. The Israeli left is the biggest reason for this.

They have continuously told the local Arabs of Israel that they need self determination and finally Some started to believe this hogwash. They brought the Palestinian authority back from Tunis all those years ago and created the problem we face today. Specifically they trumpeted Israels unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza strip and its ethnic cleansing of its people from there. That exacerbated the problem that we have today.

It’s only going to get worse.

Gideon Levi is right about that.

Jewish Paranoia

Are the Jews paranoid?

Yesiree, they are and rightly so. The Jewish state from its inception and even before has been fighting for its survival. Countless wars and even more terrorist attacks have been waged against the Jewish state. The amount of anti-Israel resolutions in the UN and other international bodies are countless. Clearly it does not really matter what Israel does it still invokes the wrath of most of the world. Many forget that Israel unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza strip hoping to rid itself of any involvement in the strip. That completely backfired as Rockets from the Hamas controlled strip rained down on Israel for the 2 years leading up to a military incursion that killed many residents of the strip and brought world condemnation. In response to all this a naval and sea blockade was erected to insure weapons would not be resupplied. Pro Palestinain groups with strong ties to the most extreme fundamentalist Islamic elements attempted to open the blockade. Israeli commandoes attempting to stop this killed 9 anarchists on one boat. Like old faithful the reaction of the world community was predictable, total condemnation. Even Israel’s staunchest ally the US has demanded an international inquiry into the latest incidents.

The fact that we are paranoid does not mean the world is not against us.

Cold Turkey

What happened to Turkey?

The only Moslem state who is a member of Nato is Turkey. They recognized Israel in 1949 and became a strategic partner of Israel in a very hostile area. Their military mostly secular has thwarted Islam radicalism from taking over , till now that is.
The most disturbing thing about the recent developments in the Middle East is the radical change that turkey has undergone in the last few years. Its army is by far the most formidable of the armies in the area and the thought of Turkey becoming a potential adversary is quite unsettling to Israeli leaders. The escalation of violence in the middle east as Iran is ever so close to developing a nuclear weapon is becoming extremely worrisome to all involved`.
What’s to happen now?
War is to happen now.

It won’t be pretty.