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2 Adar-1 5768, 8 February 2008
Contents:
1. Water Authority: Israel is rapidly
losing its water sources
2. OBAMA: JEW-HATER AND WHITE HATER?
3. On The Present Danger Facing Israel And All Jews
4. US General Explains How to Fight Terrorism
5. The Ukrainian Menace
1. Water Authority: Israel is rapidly
losing its water sources
By Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent Last update - 04:24 07/02/2008
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952155.html
Israel will soon be unable to use a considerable part of its natural water
sources, the Water Authority warns, because of the deteriorating quality of
ground-water reserves, exacerbated by reduced rainfall due to climate
change.
Most of the water in the Coast Aquifer, one of Israel's two main
ground-water sources, is below the standard for potable water, according to
a recent report by the Water Authority's Hydraulic Service. The report
analyzed the water's quality on the basis of recommendations for drinking
water made by a team of experts headed by Professor Avner Adin.
Most of the committee's recommendations, which have not been anchored in
legislation yet, are more strict than the former standards.
The Hydrological Service recommends reducing the water drilling from the
West Mountain Aquifer (the other major freshwater source, which also
provides water for the Palestinians) by one tenth and to be prepared for
increased water drilling on the Palestinian side.
It also recommends to stop pumping more water than the rainwater entering
the ground water reserve in the Coast Aquifer, which provides almost one
third of Israel's water consumption. Instead it urges creating alternative
water sources, such as desalination.
Water tests indicate that 16 percent of the water pumped two years ago from
the Coast Aquifer two years ago were inferior in quality with excessive
chloride or nitrate - pollutants caused by sewage and fertilizers. Even in
places where 95 percent of the water came from the aquifer, tests showed
that it was polluted and salted, which means that these problems are
expected to get worse.
One reason for the Coast Aquifer's salification is the excessive water
drilling, which lowers the water's level and leads to the penetration of sea
water into the drinking water. The Hydraulic Service report said that sea
water has penetrated one kilometer and two kilometers inland in several
places, and has reached the area where most of the drilling for aquifer
water takes place.
Unlike the Coast Aquifer, the Mountain Aquifer's water quality is still
good. However, the Hydraulic Service says that the water in Qalqilyah and
Tul Karm is still being polluted. The Service recommends speeding up the
treatment of sewage from West Bank Palestinian communities and Israeli
settlements in the West Bank.
2.
OBAMA:
JEW-HATER AND WHITE HATER?
Barack Obama's Very Controversial Pastor
by Sharon Hughes
From: Craig Blackwood:
http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/full.php?news=12573
3. On The Present Danger Facing
Israel And All Jews
by Rachel Neuwirth
From: David McLeod
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/on_the_present_danger_facing_i.html
4. US General Explains How to Fight
Terrorism
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125182
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) US Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Nick Halley, a veteran Vietnam, Grenada and
Desert Storm (Iraq) commander and general, says the war against radical Islam is
a no-choice prospect, in which the West must do everything it can to win.
In his book Terrorism: The Target is You!, Gen. Halley calmly but emphatically
calls upon the American public to internalize that the war imposed upon them by
extremist Muslims is for real. Each and every citizen has a role to play in
this war, Halley says, mainly in understanding that a concerted war effort is
crucial. His list of Do's and Don'ts includes the following: Don't judge
progress based on casualty reports; Don't have unrealistic expectations; Don't
overreact to bad news or future terrorist attacks; Do be alert; and Do put aside
political differences in order to present a unified front against radical Islam.
We [the US and allies] are the only force that can stop the Muslim extremists,
and they are the only force that can stop us.
What Happened in Somalia
Halley writes that the terrorists were emboldened to begin their war by an
incident that occurred in 1993 in Somalia:
"We [the U.S.] went to that country with the purest of intentions - to restore
order, end the civil war, and prevent the starvation of tens of thousands of
Muslim people. The Muslim warlords were preventing international aid from being
properly distributed to the starving people.
"In an Army Ranger operation against one of those warlords, Mohammed Farah
Aideed, a Blackhawk helicopter was shot down and 18 Americans were killed in the
operation... Our response was to leave Somalia.
"This was the final event that persuaded the international terrorist leaders and
their organizations - especially Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda - that the US
would not strongly respond militarily to terrorist attacks... The terrorists
became convinced that the most powerful country in the world had a very weak
will. They were persuaded that we could be defeated in any conflict by turning
American public opinion against a particular conflict simply by killing enough
Americans over a period of time. In effect, the real target of the terrorist
attack is the American people. They want to break the will of the American
people. This so-called 'Somalia Strategy' is the basis of their current strategy
[emphasis in the original]."
Gen. Halley, who commanded thousands of soldiers in Vietnam, Grenada and Iraq
(Desert Storm), writes that this war is the most dangerous and difficult war in
US history, for several reasons: The enemies are hard to identify and isolate;
they want to kill not only soldiers, but regular citizens and their children;
the vast expanses of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that protected the US in
previous wars are not effective against a terrorist war; and the war can be
expected to last two decades or more.
Though the strategy of deterrence helped win the Cold War against the Soviet
Union, Halley asserts that it is very ineffective against terrorists who want to
"kill us and our children, and [are] willing and even anxious to die in that
process. Deterrence simply does not work under those conditions."
Instead, Halley explains, the necessary strategy - though it has its dangers -
is that of pre-emptiveness. It calls for attacking any country or group that
presents a "clear and present" danger, even if not imminent. It "basically
calls for us to hunt down and destroy any enemies before they strike, not
after."
The Media's Role
Halley emphasizes that the media has an important role to play in this war. "We
are doing better in the global war against the radical Muslim groups than most
citizens think," he writes. "Unfortunately, the bad news is being over-reported,
while the good news is being under-reported. This is causing great confusion and
creating divisions in American public opinion that is significantly reducing
public support for this critical war. The continuing erosion of support - not
defeats on the battlefield - could cause us to eventually lose this war. The
enemy is counting on this."
One of its closing quotations was uttered by World War II General Douglas
MacArthur: "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win."
5. TheThe Ukrainian Menace
Grave near Kiev is reminder of 20th century's only blood libel
By Anshel Pfeffer
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952355.html
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