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In a Jerusalem Post article (http://wapo.st/vvfGKI), the poor relationship between Israel’s Netanyahu and the leaders of France and the U.S. is discussed. In fact, Obama and Sarkozi were caught unaware when a reporter’s microphone caught segments of a private chat where they essentially crucified Israel’s prime minister. Netanyahu is in a tough place because his government is a...
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Recently, my wife and I hosted a party at our apartment in NYC, which was celebrating a small team which might fulfill Israel’s desire to reach the moon, in competition with much larger nations! A video of the party can be found below: The competition was all Google’s idea: for countries to enroll in order to reinvigorate space research! The Google competition is called Lunar X...
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The author of the discussion below, Pilar Rahola, is a Spanish politician and journalist. Rahola’s articles are mostly published in Spain and Latin America, but her speech below has found its way to the U.S. The copy I saw was reprinted by David Bogner who I’ve referred to before with regard to Israeli issues; his excellent blog can be found at: ...
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The Gaza Flotilla, excellent review written by American/Israeli David Bogner Treppenwitz; parts including videos have been left out). The “Freedom Flotilla” was on its way to the Gaza Strip with several boats. The vessels, flying the flags of the United States, Turkey, Greece, Comoros, Sweden, and Kiribati, set sail toward the Gaza Strip despite warnings by the Israeli military. An...
read moreH.D.S. Greenway, in a Haaretz (Israel newspaper) article, claims without doubt that “sooner or later Iran will acquire the capability to build nuclear weapons”. But less than two weeks ago Defense Secretary Bates said the U.S. has no policy, even long range, for dealing with this, while Obama et al. say that Iran will not be allowed to succeed even after we’ve spent years of...
read moreLast week we were lucky to be invited to TEDxTelAviv, yet another new innovatory event based upon the famous TED conference which I have been going to, on and off, for over 15 years. TED was founded by one of the most creative people I ever knew, Richard Saul Wurman who called himself an Information Architect and wrote many innovative books (I still use his remarkable travel guides). Chris...
read moreI can only assume that the Jerusalem Post’s editor-in-chief, David Horowitz, represents thinking of the current Israel Government in his Independence Day (4/19/10) editorial. In a subsequent post I’ll present the opposition’s position. These taken together absolutely astounded me, and I think this post and the following one in this section should be read sequentially. Horowitz...
read moreI recently wrote a negative scenario of our country’s future. A similar future scenario exists for Israel, in fact the world has become very sensitive to Israel’s future prospects, many for, but more against. I’d like to present the danger which faces Israel, a summary based mostly upon a March 31 article in the New York Times by Gary Bass called “When Israel and France...
read moreExcerpted from David Horovitz, J.Post: For all its honey coating, the Secretary of State’s speech was replete with advice and demands…lectured on the untenability of the status quo, as though this was news to Israel….urged Israelis to take risks and seek new avenues to peace, as though Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert had not sought compromise, but then been ...
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35th Anniversary of Gartner Inc.'s Founding: Gartner Inc. (originally called Gartner Group) was born on April 1, 1979, together with a ... [read more]
Oh My Darling Clementine: My three year-old grand-daughter Clementine is very smart. While she's never taken any piano lessons ... [read more]
Social Networking May Be Bad for Your Health: What might have once been called 'intellectual networking' seems to have been displaced by today's ... [read more]
Genius Economist Suggests Solution to Housing Problem: John Geanakoplos is James Tobin professor of economics at Yale University and one of the founders of Ellington Capital Management, ... [read more]
Which Executive Education School Is Tops?: Interestingly, executive education rankings by various publications produce results which seem all over the map. In fact, the ... [read more]