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15 June, 2011, 13 Sivan 5771
Contents:
1. Remarkable Israel by Daniel Pipes
2. Israel to Become a Major Oil Producer? Lawrence Solomon: Israel's new energy.
3. Moshe Arens (Former Israeli Defense Minister ) Islam 4-Point Plan to Take Over the World!
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1. Remarkable Israel by Daniel Pipes
June 13, 2011
Cross-posted from National Review Online
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/
2011/06/remarkable-israel
Israel's military prowess operational and technological alike is renowned; but the Jewiish state, population 7.7 million, is no less impressive in other areas too:
High technology: "Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into a high-tech superpower. Adjust for population and Israel leads the world in the number of high-tech start-ups and the size of the venture-capital industry." ("Beyond the start-up nation," The Economist, December 29. 2010)
Classical music: "Israel has become a pocket superpower in the arts, most visibly in classical music. The distinctly Israeli take on the European classical tradition has become the country's most notable cultural export." (David P. Goldman, "Pioneers: A mix of passion and tradition makes Israel a classical-musical superpower," Tablet, July 21, 2010)
Population: Israel's total population today is between that of Istanbul and Tehran but that may change: "At constant fertility, Israel will have more young people by the end of this century than either Turkey or Iran. Israel will be able to field the largest land army in the Middle East." (David P. Goldman, "Israel as Middle Eastern hegemon," Asia Times, May 24, 2011)
Energy: "One of [Israel's] largest deposits 250 billion barrels of oil in Israel's Shfela basin[ - is] comparable to Saudi Arabia's entire reserves of 260 billion barrels of oil." In addition to the sheer size of the deposits, Israeli engineers are pioneering technological innovations for its extraction. (Lawrence Solomon, "Israel's new energy," Financial Post, Jun 10, 2011)
Creativity: "Israel, per capita, is the most creative and innovative country on the face of the earth." (George Gilder, author of The Israel Test, interviewed in "Choosing the Chosen People," National Review, July 30, 2009)
Comment: For all Israel's challenge in being accepted by the Palestinians, the neighborhood, Muslims, leftists, antisemites, conspiracy theorists, and assorted cranks, it has a dazzling record of success. (June 13, 2011)
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2. Israel to Become a Major Oil Producer' Lawrence Solomon: Israel's new energy.
http://opinion.financialpost.com/
2011/06/10/israels-new-energy/
Extracts:
Lawrence Solomon Jun 10, 2011 ' 6:01 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 12, 2011 6:21 PM ET
In the first 25 years after Israel's founding in 1948, it was repeatedly attacked by the large armies of its Arab neighbours. Each time, Israel prevailed on the battlefield, only to have its victories rolled back by Western powers who feared losing access to Arab oilfields.
The fear was and is legitimate ' Arab nations have often threatened to use their 'oil weapon' against countries that support Israel and twice made good their threat through crippling OPEC oil embargoes.
But that fear, which shackles Israel to this day, may soon end. The old energy order in the Middle East is crumbling with Iran and Syria having left the Western fold and others, including Saudi Arabia, the largest of them all, in danger of doing so. Simultaneously, a new energy order is emerging to give the West some spine. In this new order, Israel is a major player.
The new energy order is founded on rock ' the shale that traps vast stores of energy in deposits around the world. One of the largest deposits ' 250 billion barrels of oil in Israel's Shfela basin, comparable to Saudi Arabia's entire reserves of 260 billion barrels of oil ' has until now been unexploited, partly because the technology required has been expensive, mostly because the multinational oil companies that have the technology fear offending Muslims.
'None of the major oil companies are willing to do business in Israel because they don't want to be cut off from the Mideast supply of oil,' explains Howard Jonas, CEO of IDT, the U.S. company that owns the Shfela concession through its subsidiary, Israel Energy Initiatives. Jonas, an ardent Zionist, considers the Shfela deposit merely a beginning: 'We believe that under Israel is more oil than under Saudi Arabia. There may be as much as half a trillion barrels.'
Because the oil multinationals have feared to develop Shfela, one of the world's largest oil developments is being undertaken by an unlikely troop. Jonas's IDT is a consumer-oriented telecom and media company that is a relative newcomer to the heavy industry world of energy development. Joining IDT in this latter-day Zionist Project is Lord Jacob Rothschild, a septuagenarian banker and philanthropist whose forefathers helped finance Zionist settlements in Palestine from the mid-1800s; Michael Steinhardt, a septuagenarian hedge fund investor and Zionist philanthropist; and Rupert Murdoch, the octogenarian chairman of News Corporation who uncompromisingly opposes, in his words, the 'ongoing war against the Jews' by Muslim terrorists, by the Western left in general, and by Europe's 'most elite politicians' in particular.
Where others would have long ago retired, these businessmen-philanthropists have joined the battle on Israel's side. While they're in it for the money, they are also determined to free the world of Arab oil dependence by providing Israel with an oil weapon of its own. The company's oil shale technology 'could transform the future prospects of Israel, the Middle East and our allies around the world,' states Lord Rothschild.
Attitudes to Israel in some European capitals ' those in line to receive Israeli gas ' have already warmed and the shift to Israel may in time become tectonic, in Europe and elsewhere, when oil is at stake ' 38 countries have an estimated 4.8-trillion barrels of shale oil, many of which would benefit from the shale oil technology now being pioneered in Israel.
3. Moshe Arens (Former Israeli Defense Minister ) Islam 4-Point Plan to Take Over the World!
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