“Shocked and appalled by their failure to finish him off politically –
only to see him reelected stronger than ever – the Left immediately
intensified its campaign of distortion and demonization.”
In the most educated and progressive circles, who is considered to be
the archfiend of the Middle East, the person who most imperils life
and freedom and the safety of the world?
Yes, we’ve reached the point where France’s Socialist president is more hard-line on Iran than Obama. But then again I can’t think of anyone outside Moscow who is softer on Iran than Obama.
When Claude Angéli says that both France’s Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, and its President, François Hollande, have told friends that they rely on “the support of the US Congress” to prevent Obama from giving in to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it is the kind of quote you can take to the bank.
Well I guess maybe Boehner should invite Hollande to speak. If for no other reason than that the exploding liberal heads might look a lot like the Kingsman finale.
Currently France, yes France, is blocking Obama’s Iran nuke sellout.
“We have been negotiating with Iran for 12 [years]. We shouldn’t be rushed into an agreement which will have to be comprehensive,” the French ambassador to Washington, Gerard Araud, tweeted during the talks. “For France, any agreement to be acceptable will have to give concrete guarantees on all issues. We won’t bypass any of them.”
Obama’s clumsy attempts to interfere may have helped more than hurt Netanyahu.
Israeli voters on Tuesday sent Obama a two-word message, and it was not Shabbat shalom.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied pollsters’ predictions of impending doom and surged to a stunning victory. His Likud party’s strength in the Knesset swelled from 20 seats today to 30 in the incoming parliament. He is expected easily to build a majority coalition of at least 61 center-Rightists in the 120-member chamber.
Netanyahu’s election-eve promise to block a Palestinian state drove Likud members and other conservatives to the polls. Also helpful: Obama’s petulant and unconcealed disgust with America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Recall that a senior Obama aide last October called Netanyahu “a chickens**t.” Another, also quoted in The Atlantic, called him a “coward.”
The last thing the Middle East needs is still another genocidal, totalitarian, racist state, run by Islamic extremists such as Hamas.
“The BDS movement is immoral because it violates the core principle if human rights: namely, ‘the worst first.’ Israel is among the freest and most democratic nations in the world. It is certainly the freest and most democratic nation in the Middle East. Its Arab citizens enjoy more rights than Arabs anywhere else in the world. They serve in the Knesset, in the Judiciary, in the Foreign Service, in the academy and in business. They are free to criticize Israel and support its enemies.” — Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School.
What these dictators and tyrants evidently calculate, is that if Israel can just be made to go away, their own people will no longer be able to compare the restrictions at home to the limitless opportunities they can see so temptingly in the oasis next door.
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Electronic lenses that help you see straight. Israeli start-up DeepOptics has developed electronic multifocal lenses. Using sensors, they detect what the eye is focusing on as well as the viewing distance – adjusting the power of your spectacles to ensure that whatever is being looked at comes into focus, whether near or far.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-promises-a-sharper-pair-of-glasses/
Safe robotic syringe. The robotic dispensing system from Israel’s RescueDose makes the preparation and administration of liquid medication safer by adding accurate doses automatically and minimizing human contact. RescueDose is already used to dispense radiation treatments for cancer patients.
http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/dont-touch-that-syringe/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii9F5kxlrDU
Sound analysis of sleep disorder. The term “sound asleep” is very appropriate to the discovery by Ben Gurion University researchers of a simple, cheap way to evaluate sleep disorders. Using their innovative breath sound analysis (BSA) algorithm, patients with sleep quality, snoring and sleep apnea problems can be analyzed easily.
http://aabgu.org/bgu-finds-new-ways-to-evaluate-sleep-disorders/
UK and Israel to tackle dementia. A delegation of senior British scientists and companies is in Israel, to work with Israel on dementia. They are following up on December’s joint meeting of the British Neuroscience Association and the Israel Society for Neuroscience in Eilat.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium-1.646203?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.223%2C
http://www.bna.org.uk/events/view.php?permalink=7G8RPFSPJT
Link between weaning and diabetes. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that the pancreatic cells of some young mice fail to produce insulin in response to glucose during the transition from mother’s milk to calcium-enriched food. It may explain why some children develop Type 1 diabetes.
http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/25747 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580715000258
Israel has the brains to solve brain problems. Great praise from US congressman Chaka Fattah – the man in charge of appropriating federal money for science and medical research and development programs. Fattah, was a keynote speaker at BrainTech 2015 event in Tel Aviv. Per capita, Israel leads the world in neuroscience.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-the-brains-to-solve-brain-problems-says-us-congressman/
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Israeli university joins International energy consortium. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will be part of an international academic, research and corporate consortium to create a Ph.D. program on thermal energy storage (TES) technologies. TES heats or cools a storage medium so that the stored energy can be used later.
http://aabgu.org/bgu-joins-thermal-energy-storage-consortium/
Altair extends battery life on 4G devices. Israel’s Altair Semiconductor has developed a new chipset that will help the LTE batteries that power 4G devices to run with 10 times less power and half the cost of using current LTE technology. Current 4G devices include smart meters and alarms and many more are in development.
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2015/3/3/israeli-companys-chipset-could-extend-battery-life-for-devices-using-4g-networks#.VPYL9vnF8z4=
Tech to repair the world. The first ever TOM (Tikkun Olam – repair the world) Maker event took place in Nazareth. It focused on helping people with special needs to integrate better in the community – find a job, to sit with friends in cafes, stroll the streets etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7Jo V5hiNU http://www.tomtlv.org/?page_id=780
Australia receives Israeli research delegation. Assistant Minister for Defense, Stuart Robert met with a defense research delegation from Israel to discuss areas of mutual interest including science and technology.
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2015/03/11/assistant-minister-for-defence-israeli-defence-research-delegation-visits-australia/
Israelis get smarter phones. Israelis bought 2.85 million smartphones in 2014 – a rise of 19% on 2013.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israelis-buy-285m-smartphones-in-2014-1001018031
Stop texting and start Gliding. Read more about the instant video messenger from Israel’s Glide and watch this demo of how easy and practical it is to use.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-texting-and-start-gliding-why-glide-is-my-new-fave-app-of-2015/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FjHg9sLoUI
Israeli technology for Norwegian desalination. (TY Michelle) Norwegian company, EnviroNor, is recruiting Israeli expertise to provide the water-processing technology necessary for its project to convert secondhand oil barges into floating desalination and wastewater treatment plants.
http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=7960&title=Norwegian+desalination+barge+venture+seeks+Israeli+expertise+
Security for water. Jerusalem’s regional water & wastewater utility, Hagihon, has placed itself at the forefront of the cyber protection arena with a breakthrough project. Even if an employee does something unauthorized, like using an unrecognized USB flash drive, the system will send out an alert.
http://israelnewtech.com/2015/03/hagihon-launches-breakthrough-security-solution-for-protection-of-the-water-wastewater-utility/
Restoring Beer Sheva’s river. (TY Roberta) Untreated wastewater from Palestinian Arab towns has been polluting the Besor-Hebron-Be’er Sheva River for decades, thanks to international water laws. Now a 3-year project has been agreed between Israel, the PA and the Bedouin community to clean up the river.
http://arava.org/2015/03/restoration-of-the-besor-hebron-beer-sheva-river/
How Israel solved its water crisis. (TY Michelle) An excellent short article describing how, faced with severe drought and a full-blown water crisis, Israel made itself self-reliant by investing $4 billion between 2002 and 2010 to develop water technology that keeps its population and industries alive. And the innovations continue.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/turning-air-to-water-how/1726940.html
Korea learns Israeli pest control. South Korea’s Minister of Agriculture, Lee Dong-Phil visited Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu’s “BioBee” factory to learn about natural solutions to the global decrease in the wild bee population. BioBee is one of the global leaders in biological pest management, natural pollination and Medfly control.
http://www.israel21c.org/news/south-korea-likes-israeli-natural-pest-control/
U.K.-Israel science partnership is booming. Sir Mark Walport – chief scientific adviser to the British Government – says that Israel and the UK are scientific superpowers, working together on neuroscience, stem cells, nanoscience and water science. In 2015, hundreds of Israeli researchers will work in U.K. universities.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium-1.646203?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.223%2C
Weeding with technology. Israeli biotech Evogene is using its PointHit platform to analyze molecules in weeds and identify key plant macro-molecules responsible for essential biological processes in weeds. By targeting those processes, herbicides can be developed that will be more effective in killing weeds.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-agri-tech-firm-weeds-out-food-insecurity/
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