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NASA seeks Israel’s help in learning about Mars

Posted in Science and Technology, Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Scientists have come a long way in the past decade in their understanding of wind-blown formations on Mars, and Israelis have played their part.
Geomorphologists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba have been collaborating with NASA scientists in using the Negev and other deserts as analogs to understand windblown formations and how they affect [...]

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Israel launches new push to reduce its oil dependency

Posted in Energy and oil dependency, Israel, Science and Technology, tagged , , , , on September 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »

The National Infrastructures Ministry’s Fuel Authority is drafting a strategy to reduce Israel’s dependency on petroleum and plans to present it to the relevant ministries on November 20.
The document, entitled ‘Sustainable Development of Energy for Transportation and the Reduction of Oil Dependency,’ will be presented to officials from the Transportation, Finance, Infrastructures, and Environment ministries. [...]

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The great crocodile felt betrayed

Posted in International Relations, Israel, South Africa, tagged , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Israel’s decision in September of 1987 to join the rest of the world in imposing sanctions on South Africa left the apartheid regime totally dumbstruck, so much so that its leader at the time, president P.W. Botha (long known as the ‘Great Crocodile’), sent a secret letter to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir accusing him of [...]

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Gilad’s birthday gift

Posted in Israel, Israel Defense Forces, tagged , , , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The only specific birthday present Noam Schalit remembers buying his son Gilad was a basketball, somewhere in his early teens. Other than that, he can’t remember anything special – just stuff, you know, things you get a child for his birthday.
Gilad never asked for anything ahead of his birthdays, never had big parties, and didn’t [...]

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Former Mossad chief: Only force will stop Iran

Posted in Energy and oil dependency, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Mossad, nuclear, tagged , , , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

From the beginning of Teheran’s march towards a nuclear capability, Israel has attempted to convince the world of the danger posed by a nuclear Iran. According to a former Mossad director, should Israel remain alone in its efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it has only one viable option before Iran achieves its goal: to [...]

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Wesley Clark: ‘US needs face-to-face talks with Iran’

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

America should embark on a diplomatic offensive with Iran before it is too late and the only alternative left is war, former NATO supreme allied commander and 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate Wesley Clark told The Jerusalem Post on the sidelines of this week’s counterterrorism conference at the IDC Herzliya.
Clark, a strong candidate for secretary [...]

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Strange strategy

Posted in Israel, Sderot on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine how this page would have looked if, God forbid, 12 children had been killed yesterday in the rocket attack on a Sderot kindergarten instead of “just” being sent to Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital and treated for shock.
Our main story would likely have read something like this: “IAF warplanes and helicopters pounded Gaza from the air [...]

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