the Israeli crisis

The Israeli Crisis

By David Verveer

Realizing that the political gossip coming from Israel sounds rather confusing; allow me to make a try to explain it to you in my simplistic way of comprehension.

Israel, a young nation of 60 years old, was created by a small bunch of highly intellectual idealists, who where experts in nearly all fields of science, without any practical knowledge or sense for tradition, and of course we adopted the democratic system of coalition government (mainly the British system) based of one man one vote national election, where all citizens (Arab and Jews) equal rights to vote.

Being a small democratic country, without any historic political parties, created a party system based on numerous ideologies; rightist parties (revisionists and settlers and non thinkers) leftist parties (socialists, blind followers and non thinkers), religious rightist leaning parties lead by old rabies, Arab parties, supporting the Palestinian claims, the so called impossible mixture of Israeli Palestinians (15% of the total population and growing), the very left and very right splinter parties and a majority of centralists, who couldn't care, believe in popular leadership, fed to them with the help of every half hour news broadcasts and other media. We have every 2 year a new election, even though, the members of parliament are elected for a four year term, they never reach a full term., as they are toppled by active scandals which feed the coalition breakdown.

Israel is really the only real democracy in the region, and running a county of only 7 million people, divided in more than 30 parties (not all in parliament), which is not an easy task, and the members of parliament are daily busy with either supporting the government or trying to topple the government, by digging up old or new scandals, which are plentiful and go from sex scandals, election bribes, to stupid quotations by one of the Ministers (specially the prime minister).

Concerning scandals, I need to mention an undeniable fact, the scandal sufficient to topple the government does not have to be true, or have any historical value, it is enough to get the media to catch on and daily publish the alleged colorful crimes in the media. The current scandal is a probe in the financial behavior of our current prime minister, who is supposed to have received envelopes with cash money to run election campaigns 20 years ago for mayor of Jerusalem and after that to run in the primaries of his party (a party he left 2 years ago). Receiving money for election is not against the law, and the only way to get elected (provided you don't belong to a certain section of the population that allows their religious leader (the Rabbi or Sheikh or Millionaire) to decide.

When a politician receives money from somebody, he either receives it as a trial to bribe him or contribute nameless money (in cash) for election purposes. This money is collected by money collectors, who receive a certain percentage of the money collected. Of course, it is impossible to get elected without contributions (legal and slightly illegal), but when the papers run daily articles on how Olmert received huge sums (in cash) estimated total of 150,000 USD from a Jewish money collector Talansky (over a period of 15 years) it looks bad, specially when you repeat hearing it and reading it. The fact that the media (hungry for blood stories, informs you on the crimes committed by the Prime Minister) assisted by opposition politicians, trying to topple the government, makes the Prime Mister look bad (a crook).

Of course, I won't claim that Olmert is completely innocent of any wrong doings, that is the task of the police; but I do claim that some interested people try to stir the smoking woodpile, in order to start combustion. Who are those people, in this case they are very easy to identify, as they are the people who oppose any moves towards peace with the Arabs, that involves concessions and return of the areas conquered and occupied, by claiming that the entire area belongs in the historical covenant of God with the people of Israel (the Promised Land).

The Olmert Government is nearing, step by step; to an agreement with the Palestinians, which includes removing those settlers, and even worth, it seems that there is an possibility that we start talking to the Syrians, which of course requires the return of the Golan Heights. All this causes a hectic search for scandals, sufficient to stop these peace efforts, by toppling the government. A stinker was found, in the form of a religious (Great Israel supporter) 75 old, dramatic Jewish American Fund Collector, who tearfully tells the entire world about the money he gave to Olmert through the years.

Irrelevant if the law was really broken, not important that Tallansky never got anything back for it, nor that Olmert himself did not handle the money, but left it all to his legal advisor and his secretary, we have sufficient smoke to lighten the political fire, politicians trying to better their jumping positions, add loud but empty phrases, on moral behavior (but please don't start to investigate them as well, as we can not handle more scandals at the moment), others found that anything positive produced by the government should be considered as a spin (the 60^th birthday celebration of Israel was a spin, the announcement of the Syrian dictator that he started to talk with the Israelis was another super spin, the announcement of the Hezbollah chief that they are going to exchange prisoners with Israel, a spin –first class, and announcing the Israeli shekel as a changeable currency worldwide, of course, a spin by excellence.

As conclusion of all the above, politics in Israel is not REAL POLITICS but ISRAEL POLITICS, "much ado about nothing" quoting Shakespeare, who did not have the luck to live during our enlightened times.

our right to comprehend

Our right to comprehend

By David Verveer

Realizing that I am boring you with my childish arguments on environmental issues, but I am absolutely shocked on the stupid and selfish non humanistic racism of the Western civilization by continuing to recommend production of organic man-made fuel (ethanol), thus depriving other human beings from their food sources needed to survive.

Foul play is obvious, when one realizes that the production cost of ethanol is 10 times more than ordinary fuel, derived from oil wells, and / or any other alternative derived energy, using environmental friendly production methods such as: wind / waves / solar / hydro-electric / thermo- electric / plasma / nuclear, or extracting fuel from shell formations, using natural gas / waste to gas industries and even incinerators. All the above technologies are proven and ready for use, including the obvious advantages from ecological aspects, but no, the USA, as world leader promotes the production of ethanol to replace their need for carbon fuel, with a stupid, non proven argument that carbon dioxide caused the Global warming.

According the latest records published by the major scientific institutions, the global warming effect (even though, the results are until now beneficial to the living conditions of the local human population), can be found only in the northern part of the world, while the southern part of the globe is getting cooler. This phenomenon can be attributed to the variation in distance and position of the world globe opposite the sun, and of course the intensity and activity of the sun rays on the surface of the world.

Ignorance and pure manipulation of the less informed human masses, made it possible for some clever businessmen (in English) or crooks (in my opinion) to declare the carbon dioxide, a benevolent gas as enemy of humanity, to cause the global heating, and a film of swimming ice bears and penguins, smelting icebergs and some nature freaking weather conditions, gave those criminals the Noble prize and Oscar, and even here in Israel, an University provided Gore with a bag of money, in order to thank him for personally causing a world crisis, by driving the food costs above the level which the less fortunate civilizations (80% of the world) can not survive.

A peculiar fact is, that the above information is known, the scientists are already convinced that Carbon Dioxide is a fertilizing gas, essentially plants to grow, produced mainly by oceans, fauna, and living creatures, (with only a very and insignificant percent by human activities), and its influence on climatic conditions is relatively low or non existent, but then, why they allow this farce to continue? Could it be that we are being used to fatten somebody's financial interests?

What is the reason that we Israelis play along, we do not produce much ethanol nor carbon fuels, our scientists (besides a handful of Yes Sayers in the Israeli Ministry of Environment, comparable to collaborators with the enemy), know the truth and are researching alternative energy providers, such as Waste to Energy plants and solar heaters, utilizing algae and other organic sources for energy, why we have to give this manipulator and false messiah Gore a podium to spread his doctrine and religion, we proud ourselves on being a light for the gentiles, can it be that everything we hear and see is polluted by financial interests?

Believe me, we all play a part in the biggest hoax of the century, and remain powerless to change anything and to safe the masses from starvation. It might be that this is the world's final war of "Gog and Magog".

the unbeatable israeli euphoria

The un-beatable Israeli Euphoria

By David Verveer

Israel celebrated last week its 60^th birthday, with lots of glamor, important visiting statesmen and celebrities with expensive display of our prosperity and achievements which were gained notwithstanding our precarious situation on our temporary borders with our everlasting enemy, the Islamic (Arabic) tribes (dictatorial nations) surrounding us.

Our Government tells us, "be happy" enjoy the current situation, nobody knows what the future will bring to our embattled nation, but up to date, we are doing fine, with verbal encouragement of those world leaders (some of them, already out of power and some with only an half year left) that their nations are behind us the whole way. And indeed, this is progress, as in the past, even verbally we did not get any backing, and our right to exist was questioned repeatedly at the United Nations and Zionism was compared with racism.

But a few days back, the President of the USA told us that "Masada won't fall again".

What does that mean? For people who do not remember the Masada tale, a short explanation. During the Roman / Jewish wars, Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Negev Desert on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judea overlooking the Dead Sea. Masada became famous after the first Roman War (also known as the Great Jewish Revolt) when a siege of the fortress by troops of the Roman Empire may have led to a mass suicide of the site's Jewish zealots when defeat became imminent. Since the sole source of information is Josephus, whose historical accuracy is suspect; this popular conception of mass suicide may not have occurred. But historical truth does not exist, all history we know is based on journalists such as Josephus, who in their own political interpretation, create history, without any evidence on truth and facts. Today this is even more evident, as by example, our Arab neighbors such as Hamas and Hezbollah write history with the help of media such Arab television stations, reporting on cruelties and massacres by Israelis, which never took place in reality.

But going back to Bush's promise on Masada, does it mean that the USA will defend a handful of extremists when threatened (for example Mormon sects in the states) or is his support in the genre of backing up the Vietnamese and Koreans in their war with the communists? His sentence of 7 millions backed by 300 million of Americans is dramatic, but in reality "bullshit". The only force we Israelis can rely upon is the IDF, and with this we have to fight not only the Islam nations but also the financial interests of the rest of the world. We have to remember that the only countries which really love us are the Pacific Ocean Island nations, for reasons unknown.

But the festivities continue, the meeting of Presidents (including the presidents from Mongolia, Cape Verde and Albania) was impressive, pity that an Russian made Grad missile provided by Iran and launched by the Hamas in Gaza, fell at the same time on a mall in Ashkelon, wounding more than 100 people, mostly children and women, who did their shopping, etc, at the time. Of course, we realize that those victims were all ex or future soldiers involved in fighting the poor innocent Arabs and it is their moral right in defending the Koran by killing those bloody Jews.

But don't worry, we don't need Arabs to make our life hell, we are self sufficient in that. Our distinguished Prime minister, a person whose actions and lifestyle are puritan, and an inspiration to our youth, made the stupid mistake (mostly, because he tried to spin the attention on his accused but not yet proven crimes) meddled too much with peace efforts, promising independence to the Palestinians and even moving Jewish settlers , thus infuriation the Israeli right wing politicians, who engaged an American religious mini-bar millionaire to tell the world, that he personally has provided cash money to Olmert, during his election campaigns.

This crime, which is the only tool available to campaign all over the world, can be seen as a bribe, even though, I can not see how the Mini-bar chief could benefit from this, it is clear that Olmert has to go immediately, and to make place for mister clean (Netanyahu), who even in the second Lebanese War spend bribe money when lecturing the British on the Jewish plight in their fight against the Hezbollah.

But our feast continues non stop, a certain self made millionaire who has made himself a fortune in transfer of funds for an African nation, bought a political party of 3 old doodlers (ex pensioners), and is now represented in the Knesset. This is a perfect example of our nation, when a crook (which is under investigation by the Interpol and Israeli police) invests in politics and is not be accused of bribing when he buys a political party, making it unclear what a bribe is and what not. Might it be, that the definition of bribe relates to right or left, revisionism, capitalism or bribing the wrong party, is it me or really, we have to stop with celebrating? .

the real scandal

The real scandal

By David Verveer

I have to publish this before the official proclamation of the current crime scandal which involves our arch criminal, Prime Minister Olmert.

I know there is still a gagging order out, and I might endanger my freedom, but my public duty as abiding citizen obliges me to bring to the attention of our suffering people, the real truth about their leaders, and I am certain that after reading this, you will agree Olmert can not continue another day, (I wanted to write: another minute, bur I hate to over do it).

The obvious reason why we have to hurry and get rid of this tyrant is clear like crystal water, he is selling us out, I don't mind that he is prepared to give back the Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, give autonomy to the Jews in Hebron, and visiting rights to the descendents of Josef, to the burial site. All this is local politics, and not important as it will never happen, Bibi promised it, and he never lies.

The scandal at hand is a little bid old, but it gives you the precise picture of the criminal mind of this corrupt politician. Our gallant police has produced a aging witness who is prepared (if kept awake) to swear that what happened in those days, is the naked truth and will bring him down, as nobody can continue in giving away parts of our country and remain un-punished.

I am sure that you (the people) will be shocked that such deeds should be punished with a real jail sentence, like Omri Sharon, and not a faked sentence of another criminal Haim Ramon, who openly forced his filthy socialistic tong in the mouth of a pure unsuspecting female soldier, who only wanted to get Ramon's signature on modesty and dressing code in the Knesset building.

In the past, we tried to get Olmert punished for lesser crimes, such as buying a house in Jerusalem, (rather old and broken down building) by claiming that he did not pay enough (an obvious bribe) but it seems that he paid more or less the market price, but we did not relent, and found out that he tried to get a crony, to buy bank Leumi, but that did not succeed either, and it is difficult to put somebody away for a crime which was not performed, but then, we found that he helped a friend and former partner, to set up an industry in the Negev, which would provide work, but again we failed, as also this scheme never left the planning stage. But believe it, this time he wont escape, we nailed him down forever, with the help of this kind aging philanthropic holy man, justice will be served. I won't keep you anymore in suspense, and forthwith tell you what this person and collaborator with our enemies, has done.

Excuses such as, he was young and not yet a politician, or arguments such as, he has done also good deeds, or the fact that he never was accused of sex crimes, will not help him this time, he need to be punished with all the might our law system permits.

You think that I am wasting you time and try to build up the pressure, nothing is farther from the truth, I need to tell you, I nearly explode of patriotic forces building up inside of me.

Olmert, when he was a young man of 14 year old, on a warm day, exploited the kindhearted shop keeper, after he had taken an ice-cream, and found out that he did not have the money to pay for it, told this kind owner of the shop, that he would return with the money immediately, which he never did (nor intended). This crime would go un-noticed if not an neighbor had witnessed all this, and offered to pay for the ice-cream, thus trying to bribe the Olmert family for future political favors, when Olmert would become the Mayor of Jerusalem.

How come that this obvious bribe was kept silent for more than 50 years is due to the simple fact that the briber (the person who gives the bribe) immigrated to the USA, where he continued to bribe local politicians, and here in Israel, the bride was kept a state secret, until this old doodler, in his late years, slightly of balance, started to blurt out his success in bribing giants, such as Clinton, Bush, Olmert and Putin.

You see, the danger having such a criminal running our country?

Oh before I forget, Shula, Olmert's secretary refuses to cooperate with the police, and will not admit she knew about the crime from the beginning.

Oy way, what type of country we are living in?

AT THE CEMETERY

At the Cemetery

By David Verveer

Here I am sitting in front of the Cemetery were my son in law was buried. He died from Cancer, 11 years ago, and because his parents live in Haifa, he was buried there. Every year they (his parents) arrange a memorial service, in which my grandson has an important function, as the first born son of his generation. My daughter generally participates, but this year she did not feel very well, thus I had to volunteer as driver / grandfather. No problem, but due to the fact that I belong to the Priest tribe (descendant from Aharon, the priest and brother of Moses), I am not allowed to enter a cemetery; the reason for this was to keep the cohanim (priests) pure as they were serving in the temple. Of course ,there is today no temple, but religious people insist on keeping to the original customs and rules, which of course I obey, as this kind of ceremonies are for the living and not for the death.

His family came from Morocco, and the father is an observant Jew, prays regularly and keeps to the Jewish rites, and who are we to stop him, thus I sit and write this on my new mobile mini computer (ASUS EEE PC), outside the Cemetery, situated on the slope of the Carmel Mountain, not far from the coast. This Cemetery (also called "Khayat Beach" is extremely old and huge, serving the Haifa population for the last two hundred years, including war graves (British) from the first world war, an Arab graveyard, and a graveyard for non Jewish death, as in our silly country, even in death we separate, but again, these are the facts of live.

As incineration of the death is not allowed in the Jewish religion, and burial space is limited, they are now burying on different levels, with the clear understanding that in a time space of 50 to 100 years, there are no relatives left to visit their departed relatives.

After the ceremony, at the entrance of the grave-yard, the family brings food and drinks (in this part, I do participate), and then everybody goes home, until next year.

And I think, I hear them coming back from the ceremony, thus I have to finish my file, such is life and death!