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Tel Aviv
I landed in Tel Aviv today and spent tonight checking out the popular protests that have been in the news. It was interesting, after having seen Tahrir Square in February, how some of the protesters here in Tel Aviv are consciously aping the Arab Spring protests. ("Irhal!" read one sign in Arabic, and underneath, in Hebrew, "Egypt is Here."*)
I suspect I will have more observations to relate over the next few days, and most of the questions I have for policy-makers here concern, naturally enough, the security situation along the Blue Line. But for now, let me just say how cool it was to see Israeli civil society alive, well and in full voice tonight.
*Special thanks to Jason Reich of "War is Boring" fame for serving as my translator tonight.
Tel Aviv? You're not missing
Tel Aviv?
You're not missing much in the US. This one woke up and had a senior moment and forgot her past.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0811/Pelosi_calls_for_supercom...
.......think the comments to the article say it all.
Exum, you must still worried about the "next war". http://www.albawaba.com/wrong-struggle-387116 Looks like other people have different views on the protests. Demonstration could be some common ground, but judging from the feel of the Albawaba article differences are way too deep and established.
Bright side is there will be a lot of defense jobs to afford those high prices.
We somehow missed the "Walk
We somehow missed the "Walk like an Egyptian" posters and my personal favorite, "bibi-stan is here!" - but then again, i spent most of the protest staring at peoples' shoulders...
For a more thoughtful
For a more thoughtful analysis on "Social Justice" and it's costs, here's the UK Telegraph....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/8685945/If-we-a...
Literally Moneyline: "A general correction of the imbalance between wealth production and wealth redistribution is now a matter of basic necessity, not ideological preference. The hardest obstacle to overcome will be the idea that anyone who challenges the prevailing consensus of the past 50 years is irrational and irresponsible. That is what is being said about the Tea Partiers. In fact, what is irrational and irresponsible is the assumption that we can go on as we are. "
Queries Elf - who as a US
Queries Elf - who as a US Taxpayer has already been paying for Israel's Social Justice for Decades...
Just so we can plan how much paper and ink we need for the Treasury - note that Zimbabwe only stopped when they didn't have money to pay for paper and ink (really)....
million = 106 FAIL
billion = 109 FAIL
trillion = 1012 FAIL
quadrillion = 1015 NEXT
quintillion = 1018
hexillion = 1021
heptillion = 1024
octillion = 1027
nonillion = 1030
decillion = 1033
unodecillion = 1036
duodecillion = 1039
I know how you can spin it.
I know how you can spin it. Those 106 to 1039 were actually powers of 10 that didn't post with the correct font...just re-denominate the money as power's of 10: 10^2 = 100$, 10^3 = 1000$, etc. As most of your voters will be totally baffled being victims of the Public School System it will get Beltway-Stanople thru another election. Maybe.
Thank me next November. Mazel Tov!
to a group of vigilantes to
to a group of vigilantes to kill a world leader....something tells me it could have some repercussions.
afo tel aviv ani lo yoda that
afo tel aviv ani lo yoda that makes as much sense as civilocity does to benjamin
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