The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant.


1.Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and other leaders were eliminated in an Israeli drone attack on Friday. Also killed was a terrorist freed in the Gilad Shalit deal. PG: Not so easy to effect a second holocaust, is it? These Jews hit back!  Al-Qaisi was responsible for the Gilad Shalit abduction. Now, what is left of him is searching for non-existent virgins. You can run but you cannot hide. The rocket fire was initiated by Islamic Jihad, the Iranian arm in Gaza.


2.Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: "I salute all the people of the Arab Spring, or rather the Islamic Winter," Haniyeh told several thousand cheering people who attended a rally in support of the Palestinians and Syrians. "I salute the heroic Syrian people, who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," he added. PG: So now the mist clears. The Islamic Winter is the emergence of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood revolution, supported by Al Qaieda, Hamas, Egyptiam MB, Tunisian MB, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and most of Europe. And the slogan is "Freedom, democracy and reform". There is no cure for stupidity.


3.The United Nations Security Council condemned "in the strongest terms" the terrorist attack against Israeli diplomats in New Delhi, India and the attempted attack in Georgia's capital Tbilisi. PG: These guys must have been smoking something. The first condemnation of terror against Israeli's in seven years. Possibly the seven good years are ahead of us. Don't believe it.


4.A barrage of explosions and drive-by shootings killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds across Iraq on Thursday, in one of the bloodiest episodes to follow the U.S. military withdrawal from the country. By nightfall, security officials said at least 70 people had been killed and 374 wounded, with well over half of the casualties in Baghdad. PG: The battle for strategic control over the Straits of Hormuz continues. And Obama still thinks Afghanistan is more important than Iraq?


5. Khaled Abu Toameh: On the first anniversary of the "Arab Spring," many Arabs are beginning to wonder whether they would soon start missing the corrupt dictators who ruled them for the past few decades. The "Arab Spring" was supposed to bring democracy, transparency and reform to the Arab world. It was supposed to end human rights violations and see the birth of a free and independent media.The "Arab Spring" was supposed to promote the rights of women and minorities in the Arab world and encourage young Arabs and Muslims to abandon extremist views and terrorism.The "Arab Spring" was supposed to be led by young and charismatic Western-educated activists who would bring moderation and pragmatism to the Arab world. The "Arab Spring" was supposed to turn the Arab countries into attraction for tourism and investors from all around the world. PG: An unmitigated humanitarian disaster born out of a culture of hatred and fear.


6.Egypt's parliament moved Sunday toward a vote to order an end to more than $1 billion in US aid, a reflection of tensions with Washington over the case of Americans charged with illegal activity by their pro-democracy groups. PG: As mentioned before in this blog, American aid to Egypt is a pittance compared to aid from the gulf countries. How's all of this working out for you Obama? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4201552,00.html 


7.China swung to a massive trade deficit in February, due partly to seasonal distortions but also to faltering demand for the country's exports. The weak export performance comes on top of a raft of disappointing economic data on Friday that economists said will add to the likelihood of additional easing by the central bank and other policy makers. China posted a trade deficit of $31.48 billion in February after reporting a $27.28 billion surplus in January. PG: China has currency reserves of $3 Trillion. A few billion here or there won't worry them too much.


8.The Food and Drug Administration raised safety concerns about the popular class of cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins, warning that patients taking the drugs may face a "small increased risk" of higher blood sugar levels and of being diagnosed with diabetes.  The drugs that will get the warning include top-selling brand names such as Lipitor, Lescol, Pravachol, Crestor, Mevacor, Altoprev, Livalo and Zocor. PG: Makes one feel like Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.


9.Gina Godfrey has a new blog by name "Gina's Weighty Matters". In her latest blog, discussing coffee she says "But it is the antioxidants in coffee, not caffeine, which has people really enthused.  There is lots of data now that found that women who consumed 4 cups of coffee per day had a 20% reduction in risk for basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer.  Another study found a decrease in certain breast cancers in women who drank 5 cups or more a day.  There are lots of positive studies out there which says coffee lowers risk on Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and gallstones.  Who would have thunk it?... and lab testing found that coffee has "much more antioxidants than most vegetables and fruits".  Read more http://gina-godfrey.blogspot.com/ 


In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change - Laurence J. Peter

The Apartheid Libel

To all those professors and students at our universities who continue this blatant libel against the Jewish people, you are sickening. It must be really uplifting to spread the new anti-semitism. How else does one explain the nazi-like propaganda emanating from so-called intelligent people? Take it from somebody who knows.....


European Reporter Questions South African Member of Parliament on Israeli Apartheid Charge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se5xTh8uwyo&feature




The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is - Winston Churchill

Islam - The New Dictatorship

Fun Fact: Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam.

As the clouds darken, the arab spring, born a year ago, is quickly turning into a widening nightmare scenario that is enveloping all of Islam. While the world focuses on the evils perpetrated by the ridiculous assertion that Israel is an apartheid state, a vicious hybrid cancer is beginning to assert itself replacing old dictatorships with an old-new and even more intolerant evil. This is the horrorscope of the future quietly cultivated by the coalition of the extreme left and Islam.  These are mostly intellectuals at our educational institutions, infusing their poison into our easily influenced and unsuspecting youth. Of course, financially sponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood who provide the slow drip of oily venom.

Ex dictator, Saddam Hussein and his family members apparently made use of rape rooms to torture and shred opposition to their dictatorship. Or maybe they did it just for fun. Ezra Levant of the Toronto Sun writes that the Syrian army is using rape trucks to gang bang anyone they suspect or just happen to desire. Whatever shade of truth one might believe, clearly these dictatorships are barbaric in nature and need to be eliminated. But hold it! Who do we have on the other side in Syria? The opposition in Syria is being openly supported by Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, Hamas, The US, Europe and the elite media (hey, these revolutionaries use twitter, iPhones and Facebook - so they must be like us). Ring out the old and bring in the new.

When Mubarak went, betrayed by old friend Obama in the name of human rights and cheered on by CNN ("look at us.. we're making history"), leadership of the Sunni arab world and the arab spring automatically passed to American ally and oil supplier Saudi Arabia. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

If we were to mention a country  in which women have virtually no rights and are kept as virtual prisoners, unable to travel without the permission of a male guardian or relative, even if he is a child or retarded or mentally defective -- but also that there are separate roads marked for Muslims to drive on and for non-Muslims to drive on?  Where one is not not even allowed to bring a Bible into the country. Would this be Israel the apartheid state? If we mentioned that the great humanitarian Hillary Clinton runs a foundation supported financially by this country, while encouraging "understanding" between faiths, we would be positive this was those  "Jews using their money to run the world" as claimed by leftists like Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star and others.

In fact, they have no free press, no elected government, no political parties. And the royal family allows the religious police to travel in groups of six carrying nightsticks, with which they freely and publicly beat women. Worse, religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress. Seventeen schoolgirls were burnt to death. This must have taken place in that den of iniquity, Israel since it was reported by the self-acclaimed tower of morality the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1874471.stm Recently the religious police beheaded a woman for practising sorcery. Don't believe me... http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/saudi-woman-beheaded-witchcraft/story?id=15145041#.T1Tu91HYfHg

So really, what are the choices for Israel in this situation. Should they take the advice of our deep thinking intellectuals, who accuse them of a South African type apartheid (from a good distance let it be said) while conveniently ignoring all of the above?  Mass murder, rape and genocide is a worst case scenario. Abbas represents the secular Assad type of governance, while Hamas represents the  religious Saudi type solution. The more merciful option would be atomic annihilation (The shiite solution). A quick and easy holocaust as opposed to a long drawn out affair. The one state final solution now openly being discussed at Harvard University appears to be the way to go. They are correct in principle, wrong in substance. The two state solution is dead and buried. There is only room for one state in the area. Israel.

Watch and weep as the non-competitive economic world of Islam implodes.


If you are going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill

The Miracle Continues....Walk Tall Israel

1.First-ever Bedouin commercial solar field licensed


This is the first license given in Israel for a solar project involving the Bedouin community. The $30 million installation will be established on private land and some 80% of the costs will be funded by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) of the US government. The Public Utility Authority (PUA) granted the Bedouin community in the Negev a license for a photovoltaic installation. Read More http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4186700,00.html 



2.Blackstone to make major investments in Israel


The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) will reportedly invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel, through a joint venture that it will set up with Markstone Capital Partners Group LLC. Markstone, headed by managing directors Ron Lubash and Amir Kess, will apparently become Blackstone's exclusive representative in Israel. Markstone will seek Israeli companies in which the two private equity funds will invest. Blackstone, with $166.2 billion in assets under management, is the world's largest private equity fund. COMMENT: Money Talks and BS walks.



3."Israel's gas reserves worth $130b"

Israel's natural gas reserves are worth $100-130 billion, in non-capitalized values, a senior official who accompanies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday's visit to Cyprus said in a press conference. This valuation is the basis for the sovereign fund for oil and gas royalties that will be set up. He added that that the gas discoveries in Israeli waters could be double the known discoveries to date.



4.Goldman Sachs buys 10% of Viola Group



Goldman Sachs paid $20 million for the stake in Viola Group, which manages $2 billion in investments. Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest foreign investors in Israel. It acquires stakes in companies, mostly in high tech, and has made ten investments in Israeli companies to date. Sources inform ''Globes'' that it has invested over $250 million in Israeli companies in the past few years. COMMENT: Small potatoes right now, but when added up....Huge!


5.Israeli village for earthquake victims inaugurated in Turkey


Three months after an earthquake hit the Van region in Turkey and caused the death of hundreds and left thousands wounded and homeless, an "Israeli village" was inaugurated on Monday with 130 mobile homes donated by Israel to the Turkish survivors. '"Only true friends help with such speed and concern," stressed the Turks. Read more..... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4189585,00.html 



6.Unemployment rate at historic low in Q4 2011


The unemployment rate fell to an all-time low of 5.4% of the civilian labor force in the fourth quarter of 2011 from 5.6% in the preceding quarter, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today. Tel Aviv had the lowest unemployment rate among cities with more than 100,000 residents, at 4.4% in 2011, down from 5.7% in 2010.


7.Israel named world's 2nd-best clean tech innovator


Going green, going strong: Israel is among the top-three nations worldwide that provide the best conditions for clean technology startup companies, a recent ranking by the CleanTech Group stated. Topping the list was Denmark, followed by Israel, Sweden, Finland and the United States.


Israel is one of the few countries in the world that truly likes and  admires the United States.

Israel is the only country in the world where patients visiting physicians end up giving

the doctor advice.


Fun Fact: Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran

Israel - The Apartheid State

This is for for all the deep intellectual professors and students intending to demonstrate against Israel and its apartheid policies during the approaching Apartheid week at Universities around the world. 


"I wanted to build a good future for my family, but I failed," a weak Issam Abdallah Mohammed said in a videotaped statement. The refugee from the Darfur region of Sudan was trying to illegally cross the border from Egypt to Israel when he was discovered and shot by Egyptian border guards. Less than an hour after taping the statement, Issam was dead, succumbing to the wounds inflicted by the gunshots. Every year, thousands of refugees, mostly from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan, attempt the dangerous journey from their war-torn countries to Israel in search of economic prosperity and stability.


Very few make it, and the results of the failed migration can be seen in the morgue of the central hospital in the Egyptian port town of El Arish. On any given day, the morgue will be packed with the bodies of African refugees who died trying to make it to Israel. Every week, Al-Azazy combs the desert, searching for corpses, ensuring that they get a dignified burial. He has spent the past seven years helping the refugees. Many are enslaved and tortured and the women raped by the Bedouin tribes of the Sinai if they are unable to come up with large sums of money the Bedouin try to extort from them and their families, to smuggle the refugees across the border into Israel. As a result, many remain imprisoned in camps on the Sinai Peninsula.


This is all taking place in Egyptian territory with Egyptian border guards. The most interesting part of all of this, is that the Africans are not trying to get into that anti-apartheid entity, Gaza. Clearly they prefer to be treated like wild animals in Israel. They are not daunted by the fact that in Israel, Africans (and all dark skinned folks) have separate beaches, separate park benches, separate restaurants, separate buses and so on (Sarcasm for those who don't get it). It does not bother them that Africans (and all dark skinned folks) in Israel don't vote (only white Jews - more sarcasm....). It bothers them even less that tens of thousands of missiles are aimed and sporadically fired at Israeli population centres and that the new Hitler in Iran intends to fire an atomic bomb directly at them. Apparently they are prepared to risk being raped, tortured and imprisoned just to have the privilege of living under an apartheid regime.


So when the Israeli racists offer them a home in Syria, Egypt or any Arab Spring country where the sun is supposed to shine on the people, they refuse. According to African's, if you are a Sunni then you are in danger and if you are a shiite, also dangerous. But if you are neither, then you can kiss the world goodbye. What does this sound like to you? Religious apartheid? Don't take my word for it. 


Abul Kasem: Islamists living in the West often portray Islam as a religion free of racism. However "even when a Black Muslim is entitled to enter Islamic Paradise, he will not enter it until Allah has turned him into a white person. Verse 20:102 says that on the day the trumpet is sounded (resurrection day), the sinners will be gathered together with blue eyes and black faces.  On judgment day, Muslims will have white faces, white arms, and white legs." The rest of us are all going to hell. Yes, even Professor Pied Piper and his super intellectual followers!


As for the left wing Gay communities (QuAIA and co) who seem to think that their future existence is tied to the Palestinians, your destiny is by divine decree. According to the prophet, you aint going to heaven and you aint going to hell. Your death will be everlasting. No life beyond the grave. Maybe they should consider joining the Africans in Jerusalem, capital of the Apartheid State known as Israel. Inconvenient, but the truth usually is.


When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie - Yevtushenko

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant.


Fun Fact: Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam. 


1.An Egyptian judge involved in the investigation of foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Egypt indicated Feb. 8 that Cairo intends to try the 43 NGO workers indicted Feb. 5, many of whom are Americans. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is using the NGO investigation to signal to Washington that the council wants to manage Egypt's transition to democracy without foreign interference. The potential for U.S. aid workers to be imprisoned in Egypt has jeopardized the more than $1.5 billion in U.S. aid Egypt receives each year as well as the two countries' strategic relationship. PG: The Egyptians would not have taken this step unless they had the financial backing of the Saudi's. The Gulf states have recently gifted Egypt with $15 billion. The American aid is a pittance compared to this. Looks like the Islamic Spring continues to implode (For CNN, at least)


2.Saudi Arabia would launch a military nuclear program immediately if Iran successfully developed atomic weapons, The Times of London reported Friday. While Riyadh signed an agreement with the US in 2008 stating that it would only pursue nuclear power for civil purposes, the Saudi government is likely to abandon the deal if Tehran had a nuclear bomb. PG: So apparently the US concern is not only for Israel, as some would have us believe.


3.The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling. They're better at taking opponents apart than building a compelling candidate of their own. They do not seem capable of deepening his meaning, making his stands and statements more textured and interesting. He comes across like a businessman who studied the data and came up with the formula that will make the deal. Read more http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203824904577212832724317096.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

4. MK Avi Dichter (Kadima) warned that Israel must prepare itself for an influx of Syrian Alawite refugees in the aftermath of Syrian President Bashar Assad's inevitable downfall. Speaking at the Shabbat Culture event at the Tel Aviv Museum, the MK explained that once Assad, an Alawite, is ousted from power, the country's Sunni majority will begin a mass execution of the minority Alawite sect. PG: Dichter was head of Israel's Shin Bet Intelligence. He is correct that Israel is preparing for this situation. Long live the Islamic Winter! The world is now seeing the real reason there is no peace in the Middle East.


5.Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their uprising to topple President Bashar Assad. In the eight-minute video, titled "Onwards, Lions of Syria" and posted on an Islamist website, the Egyptian-born Zawahri also urged Muslims in Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan to come to the aid of Syrian rebels confronting Assad's forces. PG: What say you, Anderson Cooper, Barack Obama and co? The islamic spring working out for you? Or maybe for everybody but you.....


6.An Iranian man carrying explosives blew off his own legs and wounded four other people in two blasts Tuesday in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. Stratfor: Monday's events merely reinforce the existence of an already obvious campaign on both sides. But the remarkable aspect is the disparity between the two efforts. By and large, Stuxnet as well as the larger sabotage and assassination campaign against Iran have been consistently professional and effective. On the other hand, the Iranian counterattack has been repeatedly foiled or exposed as ineffective or even inept. 


7.Iran's state-run Press TV says the country has cut oil exports to six European Union countries. It's not yet known which EU countries are affected. PG: The price of oil stays steady at $100 a barrel after the announcement. Interesting how the markets rate Iran in today's scheme of things.

8.Oprah Winfrey is exploring the Hasidic way of life on her new show. Shterna Ginsberg, 38, one of the women featured in the show, cynically addressed the infamous "hole In the sheet" myth, saying "that was how the more lenient Jews had sex, while the stricter Jews had sex through fax and email." She explained that according to Jewish law, there cannot be a partition between the couple. Read more http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4189744,00.html

9.CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook wants to make its Mac more like an iPhone. He said the next version of Apple's Macintosh OS, "Mountain Lion," due in late summer, would incorporate features from the software that powers Apple's hit mobile devices, Jessica Vascellaro reports on digits. In an interview at the company's headquarters here, Mr. Cook unveiled a new version of the company's Macintosh operating system that include Apple's messaging service, notifications app, gaming center, sharing features and integration with the company's online service iCloud—all pioneered for the iPad and iPhone, which use the software known as iOS. PG: We love Apple. Long live the one percent.


If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has - John Maynard Keynes

PG: And that, ladies and gentlemen is how we arrived at this point in time...

The Miracle Continues....Walk Tall Israel

1.Israeli ‘to-do’ app voted best app of 2011


Any.DO, created in 2011 by Omer Perchik, Yoni Lindenfeld and Itay Kahana, was downloaded over 500,000 times during the 30 days following its launch. It was recently voted be best android app for 2011 by Techcrunch, followed by Lightbox and Amazon MP3.  According to theAny.Do team, so far 2.5 million tasks have been added, with more than one million completed. There is an average of 100,000 tasks added every day, and 50 percent are added by voice command.


COMMENT: These kids never cease to amaze me.


2.High-tech investments set 11-year record

In 2011, 546 Israeli or Israel-affiliated high-tech companies raised a total of $2.14 billion from Israeli and foreign VC investors, according to a report by the Israel Capital Venture Research Center (IVC) and KMPG. This is the highest amount raised in the past 11 years since the dot-com crash last decade. The figure reflects an increase of nearly 70% as measured against the $1.26 billion raised by 391 companies in 2010.


3.McAfee: Israel tops cyber-defense survey



Israel, Finland and Sweden top the McAfee cyber-defense survey of leading experts' perception of a nation's defenses, with a score of 4.5 out of 5. The rankings are based on the perceived quality of a country's cyber-readiness - the ability to cope with a range of threats and attacks.
Israel tops the US, UK, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands and Estonia (which was the target of alleged Russian cyber attacks several years ago) in the rankings, each of which received 4 out 5 points.


4.Better Place readies commercial launch


Israel will be the first country in the world to run an electric car network. Jerusalem will be the first city. The company's network includes 33 stations in operation or being built and 50 firms have ordered electric cars for their fleets. Better Place says that the service cost of its electric cars is more than 40% less than for gasoline powered cars, and that the insurance premiums for the electric cars is 20% less (about NIS 1,000). The electric cars fuel will also save consumers thousands of shekels a year. Read more: http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000723418&fid=1725

5.IAI Elta wins $150m Asian radar contract


The ELM-2032 radar system can identify moving and stationary targets day and night in all weather conditions. In 2002, the Israel Navy stunned the world when it intercepted in the Red Sea the Karine A, a ship carrying arms from Iran to Gaza, and towed it to the Ashdod Port. The state-of-the-art radar systems used in the mission are now being exported, and will be used by the air force of an Asian country. IAI completely refuses to name the customer, or the types of combat jets in which the radars will be installed, citing the contract's confidentially conditions.


6.Kazakh boy will walk again after surgery in Israel


A gifted 12-year-old boy from Kazakhstan whose cerebral palsy (CP) prevented him from walking independently has had a successful operation and is undergoing extensive rehabilitation at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin – at the hospital’s and the Foreign Ministry’s expense. COMMENT: Walk Tall Israel!


7.US Navy Puts More Bang Into Unmanned Fleet


The special warfare branch of the Navy's expeditionary warfare division is eying plans to arm its small fleet of unmanned boats with an long-range missile, branch chief Capt. Evin Thompson said. The missile -- known as the Spike -- is built by Israeli defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Thompson said during this week's Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International-sponsored symposium in Washington. COMMENT: Looks like Israel is doing its fair share. 

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free - Ronal Reagan