Snow Scam?

I keep hearing all this hype about "major snow storm" or a "blizzard" that is expected here in the hilly, OK mountainous parts of Israel, like Jerusalem, Gush Etzion and Binyamin-Shomron where Shiloh is located.

Jerusalem and all of the regions surrounding it have canceled school long before even one snowflake has fallen from the heavens. And that's long before any numbers have actually stuck to the ground. In order to guarantee that they stick, Jerusalem's Mayor Barkat wants the roads emptied. Maybe he's hoping to ski. Now, if you want clear roads, and only a couple of inches of snow, if any, are really going to fall, then keep the vehicles heating and melting the snow. With all the cars, buses and trucks around, we can probably save money and have clear roads for free.

For years I've been mocking these well organized media "snow panics." It's clear why they are being done. Someone is making money. The television media stars and cameramen, probably directors and producers, too, have been out for hours or more all bundled up ready to interview the first snowflake. They had better watch out with the lights, or the poor thing will melt before he or is it she or it can get a name out. That would be a shame, wouldn't it?

And the other people/unions who/that make money from these snow scams are the "snow removal experts." No doubt they're the ones who have instructed Barkat on how to make sure the snow looks impressive by emptying the roads so the snow can pile to its maximum. They really want to show their prowess on the snowplows. Maybe I'm wrong, but I keep thinking of their trying to puff up the flurries on a flake version of Viagra. 

Nu, so I decided to do some independent research. Instead of reading the news headlines and interpretations of the forecast numbers. I've been going to the weather sites that give me simple to understand numbers. Remember that I'm a CPA's daughter...

Let's start with Arutz 7, which has me totally confused. I checked both Ariel and Jerusalem. The temperatures for both are almost identical, but the drash, the interpretation is different:
Ariel

4-13°Today January 06
Windy 

0-4°Wednesday January 07
Rain Mixed with Snow 

0-5°Thursday January 08
Rain Mixed with Snow 

0-4°Friday January 09
Rain Mixed with Snow 

Jerusalem

3-12°Today January 06
Windy 

0-4°Wednesday January 07
Heavy Snow 

0-4°Thursday January 08
Heavy Snow 

0-3°Friday January 09
Heavy Snow 

And here's another weather site that shows us Shiloh:

Tue. J. 6		Wednesday January 7								Thursday January 8								Friday January 9								Saturday January 10								Sunday January 11								Monday January 12
Local time	20		02		08		14		20		02		08		14		20		02		08		14		20		02		08		14		20		02		08		14		20		02		08		14
Cloudiness, %
Precipitation, mm
Temperature, °C	+9		+7		+8		+5		+5		+6		+8		+6		+6		+6		+6		+3		+4		+4		+5		+5		+5		+6		+7		+6		+5		+4		+6		+8
Feels like, °C	+5		+3		+4		+1		+1		+1		+5		+3		+3		+2		+4		-1		+1		+1		+3		+2		+2		+3				+5				+2
Pressure, mm	687		687		686		686		688		690		692		691		692		691		690		689		691		691		692		690		689		688		689		691		695		696		698		697
Humidity, %	40		57		60		84		70		65		68		78		77		77		78		85		66		66		69		79		85		81		83		85		83		80		81		75

Please look carefully at the numbers. Shiloh's weather is between Ariel and Jerusalem. Even their "Feels like," which would be considered "wind chill factor" isn't as low as the temperatures on the Arutz 7 site.

And here's another one, Weather in Jerusalem:

Wednesday 07 Jan

5° 1°

rain
chance of precipitation 83%

Thursday 08 Jan

8° 1°

rain
chance of precipitation 88%

Friday 09 Jan

4° -2°

mixed rain and snow
chance of precipitation 93%

Saturday 10 Jan

6° 1°

light rain
chance of precipitation 51%

Sunday 11 Jan

8° -1°

rain
chance of precipitation 40%

Monday 12 Jan

9° -1°

Maybe someone forgot to tell them that the password is "snow." Perhaps they're not on the "take." Granted I may be wrong. I'm just a nobody at a dead-end job who blogs for my sanity. The joke may be on me. But I can't imagine the blizzard that's being hyped... Not this week at least.

Last year's blizzard

Should Israel Bury the Idea of a "Negotiated Peace Deal" with the Arabs?

Can Peace really be negotiated with the local Arabs aka or so-called Palestinians sic?

Israeli policy has been based on such a premise for a dangerously long time. I'm not just talking about the past few years. Many Israeli leaders have been dreaming of this since even before the beginning of the State of Israel. Labor Zionists have considered Peace to be something attainable if only we'd...

Never have mainstream Israeli leaders dared accept the unpleasant fact that there is absolutely nothing we can do to make the Arabs accept a viable Jewish state here. They, meaning we though not me and my ilk personally, have tried everything possible to show how nice, friendly and tolerant we can be. Whatever other country would accept enemy wounded into our hospitals as proof of "apology" for shooting back after being attacked?  Yep, it does sound pretty dumb.

And in the sixty-six years of Israeli statehood, so many different negotiated plans have been proposed, and they've all been failures. And unfortunately most, if not all, have been unilateral concessions by Israel. Each one leaving us smaller and weaker.

The reason that the great 1967 victory of Land, in the Six Days War wasn't fully embraced by Israeli policy is that the movers and shakers of the time considered that Land to be what the Arabs wanted in exchange for peace. The Israeli leadership was wrong on both counts.

• Jordan, at that time there was no concept or history of an Arab Palestine, was not interested in continued Jordanian occupation of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley. 
• Syria only used the Golan Heights as launching pads against northern Israel.
• Egypt only used the Sinai as a useless buffer zone.
• And none of them wanted peace with us, no matter what we bribed them with. That only changed once Sadat took over after Nasser in Egypt.

Here we are decades later, and after the invention of a "Palestinian People" sic, and they still don't want to negotiate peace with us, because they don't want a Jewish State in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheva etc. Shiloh isn't the problem.

The latest Arab tactics totally bypass negotiations with us. That's because the Israeli plan for negotiations for a "two state solution" is for Israel to have power over the new Arab state.The Arabs don't need us for a state, because so many countries and international bodies already recognize a state called "Palestine." 

The Washington Post

Israel's continued insistence on the viability of such negotiations is like buying LP records to play on your MP3.

Israeli Election Update: PA Sanctions, Deri Threats, Likud Recounts, Never Dull

I have no doubt that the Israeli, read Likud campaign threats to the P.A. Palestinian Authority to withhold funding is related to the 2015 (5775) Knesset Elections. Two reasons:

• primary results leave few Right candidates, including sitting Knesset Members, in the cold
• two years ago, Israel did the same, and two years ago, there was also Knesset elections

Prime Minister Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu is too good and experienced a politician to decide on anything like that by "chance."

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As soon as there was talk of Arye Deri's possible resignation, there were predictions that it was just to pressure the Yosef clan and veteran Shas supporters for more support. These "resignations" aren't immediate, which gives time for drama for a showman like Deri.

Nothing is dull when Aryeh Deri is involved.

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And the Likud Primaries are riddled with numerical improbabilities: 

According to Channel 2, in Beit Jann, MK Tzachi Hanegbi received 250 votes — but only 197 Likud members had voted overall. Similarly, in Jerusalem, MK Yuli Edelstein received nearly a thousand votes more than the number of voters at the station.
Hanegbi dropped down three spots, from 9th to 12th, after the reevaluation.

Read more: Likud primary recount still leaves Hotovely in the cold | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-primary-recount-leaves-hotovely-in-same-place/#ixzz3NvWQq7Dv  Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook

Even though MK Tzippi Hotobelli initiated the recount, she is still out of the "safe seats" predicted by the polls. Many of the more "nationalist" or Right members of Likud have been disappointed in her politics of late. That's why she got fewer votes. And also she had gotten in on the "coattails" of the Moshe Feiglin supporters. He did much worse, because his supporters are very much disenchanted with the Likud in general. They either left the Likud or didn't vote in the primaries.

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With over two months left before Knesset Elections, there's lots more to come. Stay tuned...

Like The Cat Guarding The Cream, "Palestine" sic Arab Terrorists Joining Interpol

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Can it be that Interpol is joining the international hypocrites by allowing the so-called Palestinians sic to join?

Official: Palestine to join Interpol

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian authorities have decided to join the International Criminal Police Organization, widely known as Interpol, an official revealed Saturday. 

It doesn't take a doctorate in criminology or terrorism to know that the source of international terrorism lies in Arab Muslim society, and they are extremely active in what is called "Palestine," sic.

According to Wikipedia, Interpol:

The International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, is a non-governmental organization facilitating international police cooperation. It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923 and adopted its telegraphic address as its common name in 1956.^[2]......To keep Interpol as politically neutral as possible, its charter forbids it, at least in theory, from undertaking interventions or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature or involving itself in disputes over such matters.^[4] Its work focuses primarily on public safety and battling terrorism, crimes against humanity, environmental crime, genocide, war crimes,^[5] organized crime, piracy, illicit traffic in works of art, illicit drug production, drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human trafficking,money laundering, child pornography, white-collar crime, computer crime,intellectual property crime and corruption...

So, do you think the PA Palestinian (sic) Authority suits the charter?

American CHUTZPAH!

file photo REUTERS/Nir Elias

The State of Israel is an independent country. It has a police and army, the IDF. It has courts and a government. No Israeli Government official gave the United States permission to "inspect" Adei Ad, the Jewish farming community to the east of Shiloh.

"...U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect..."(Reuters) - Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said....
the delegation arrived at Adei Ad in U.S. diplomatic cars without first having coordinated the visit with Israeli authorities. (emphasis mine)

Not only did the Americans have the nerve to "inspect" what is going on here, disregarding our government, but they came with armed guards who brandished their weapons at the worried Adei Ad residents. They are lucky they weren't shot! They could have been shot for such a thing. Arabs and international anti-Israel anarchists have attacked Adei Ad in the past.

I have no doubt that if an Israeli consular delegation went armed, like the Americans, on an inspection tour in the Untied States the Israeli Ambassador would be sent home packing, and the American one would leave Israel and there would be so many complaints about Israeli "chutzpah."

I hope that instead of our usual wimpy apologies this time our Israeli Government demands that the Americans apologize to us!! Send the American officials home!!!

What Will Be The 2015, 5775, Israeli Elections Main Issues?

The Knesset, from the side

If you're already sick of Israeli Elections politics, then I'm sorry, but we have two and a half months to go, and then there's the coalition building/dealing...

It's not hard to guess what the Israeli Left will campaign about during the 2015, 5775 Knesset Elections season. The Left will go for economics:

• Housing should be cheaper! "It's not fair that we can't afford a large apartment (or house) in the neighborhood of our dreams."
• Food here in Israel is too expensive! Pudding is cheaper in Germany!
• Hospitals are too crowded, because the Netanyahu government hasn't built enough hospitals or rooms. 
• Hotels in Israel are too expensive. 
• Universities should be free and acceptance should be easy.
• Taxes are too high. 
• Cars are too expensive.

I have a feeling that the chareidi parties will campaign to appeal the latest draft laws and accompanying fines. They'll certainly expect that as payment to join the coalition, and without them, neither Bibi nor Herzog-Livni can form a viable government.

Naftali Bennett and his NRP aka Bayit Yehudi, Jewish Home Party, will probably try a Land of Israel-security campaign. That way he can pick up the disgruntled Feiglin voters who will give up on the Likud and also some of the former Lieberman, Yisrael Beiteinu, Israel's our Home Party who have finally realized they had been conned.

The Arab parties will do their usual:]

• We don't get a fair shake.
• Support the Palestinians sic, even though it's seditious. But they're coated with Teflon.

Whatever Right wing parties there are will go for Jewish rights in all of the Land of Israel and Jewish Prayer and easy access to the Temple Mount. 

What do you think? Did I peg it correctly? Please answer in the comments, thanks.

And G-d willing, bli neder (no oath/vow) I'll soon post:

What Should Be The 2015, 5775, Israeli Elections Main Issues?

It's Bibi's Likud, Not Feiglin's

OK, about the results of the Likud Primaries. I was right about one thing. Feiglin hadn't a chance. His supporters kept trying to convince me that he was increasing his power in the Likud, but the truth is as shown in election results, that he's just a postscript in Israeli politics.

Naftali Bennett's success in changing the NRP and remaking it proves that Feiglin was barking up the wrong tree, trying to remake the wrong party. If you know anything about sewing or fabrics, it would be like trying to make a formal tuxedo out of chiffon. Chiffon just doesn't hold its shape, and the Likud isn't going to be the ideological party that Feiglin claimed it could be. And to be honest I think that Bennett may be  opening up his NRP aka Bayit Yehudi, Jewish Home too much. I'm not quite sure what it stands for. It reminds me, lehavdil--to differentiate-- how Tzachi Hanegbi campaigned for Kadima, calling it a "Supermarket," where you can find all sorts of opinions.

It's late at night, and I just came home from work and must work again tomorrow, so...

Jewish Press

I think that Bibi Netanyahu must be pretty pleased with the results of the primaries. He's the undisputed leader and many of his more reliable followers got high placements. That's the good news for him. The bad news for him is that the pro-Feiglin voters will look for another party, either NRP or further Right or Chareidi. He and his team must find replacement voters. It's going to get harder and harder to present themselves as Right, because after so many years of Center-Left policies, even many die-hard Likudniks (and the Feiglin supporters) realize they've been had!

Does The World Need Another Arab State? Stop The "Palestine" State!

It's no secret that modern apartheid and a total lack of basic human and civil rights are the hallmarks of Arab countries:

 The Most Revealing Video About The Middle East You Will Ever See



Just like in the 1930's when Hitler and his Nazis took over Germany and began their systematic discrimination against the Jews there, and the world was silent, now the world and the antisemite-controlled United Nations say nothing about the lack of freedom in Arab countries and the true aims of the so-called Palestinians sic.

Palestinian Membership of International Criminal Court Would be Dangerous ‘Game-Changer’ for Israel, Legal Expert Says

As a pragmatist I see the so-called Palestinians sic as not only a danger to the security and existance of the State of Israel, but to world peace. And I'm glad that the Security Council voted their request for statehood down.

Israel Video Network

The problem is that this is just a temporary "setback" for them. In principle the countries that vetoed their bid, the United States and Australia are not against Palestinian statehood in general, just against this "method" of achieving it. And you may be surprised to hear that Israel's official policy is the same.

Every since Prime Minister Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu declared his support of the "Two State Solution," via negotiations, Israel and the United States are on the same "team."

• Both countries, the USA and Israel want to establish the "State of Palestine."
• They want it to be the result of "Peace negotiations" between Israel and the Arabs.

So this vote against Statehood doesn't cheer me up all that much. It's just a postponement of a very dangerous scenario. 

Don't forget that the ultimate aim of the so-called Palestinians  is the destruction of the State of Israel!!!