text: We realized natural gas prices of $2.52 this quarter versus $3.23 in the December quarter. Even though natural gas prices fell 34% quarter on quarter, our average realized price per barrel equivalent fell less than 3%. Gas prices have a minimal impact on our financial performance.Our LOE remains essentially flat against the December quarter at $19.61 per barrel. And our EBITDA was healthy $52.16 per barrel, our second consecutive quarter above $50 per barrel, even with natural gas prices declining by over 1/3 during that period. G&A was higher quarter on quarter, primarily due to noncash mark-to-market adjustment and stock-based compensation and profit sharing paid during the quarter. Our EBITDA for the past 2 quarters combined is $440 million. On an annualized basis, that's almost $900 million. As we continue to ramp crude oil production, we should see a significant increase in EBITDA and free cash flow. During the fiscal third quarter, the drilling program was at its peak and we spent approximately $155 million in CapEx. And even at that rate, we were cash flow positive. As we bring production tied to this CapEx online in the June and September quarters, you will see accelerated cash flow and increased liquidity. And to help assure that we remain cash flow positive, although we believe that the fundamental for crude oil remains very constructive, we continue to look for prudent ways to enhance our existing hedge portfolio. We recently bought 15,000 barrels per day of the 75-85 WTI foot [ph] spread, paying approximately $0.70 per barrel for this through May through the December period. We are also looking at incremental hedges for calendar 2013 and 2014 periods, which give us additional downside protection while allowing us to participate in the upside. Read the rest of this transcript for free on seekingalpha.com


text:
The Senate often goes into recess. This year it's going a step further. It's going into hibernation.
Not turn out the lights, lock the doors, and leave town hibernation. But rather than go about its normal business—such as taking up more than two dozen bills approved by the House and awaiting Senate action—the upper chamber will limit itself to voting on a few items deemed helpful to President Obama's reelection. These measures, mainly bits and pieces of Obama's "jobs bill," are not expected to pass. If they did, that would screw up the plan devised by Democrats.
Their strategy is for the Senate, after extending the payroll tax, to reject or ignore everything else and become part of a "do-nothing Congress" that will serve as the chief villain in the president's campaign. Since the Republican-controlled House has been a graveyard for Obama's agenda, it already fits the bill as a do-nothing institution.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
|Trad, 1 pitch, 80'
|YDS: 5.10b French: 6a+ Ewbanks: 19 UIAA: VII- ZA: 19 British: E2 5b [details]
|Chris Small, Kevin Henshaw, 2012
|Page Views:
|Submitted By:
|Nick Wilder on Aug 2, 2012
|Comments on In the Firing Line
|Add Comment
|Show which comments —
By John Wilder
From: Las Vegas, NV
Jul 20, 2013
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|I was glad to have a rack to #2 camalot, and a second #1 would have been even nicer. Not sure why the book neglects to mention this- its obvious from the base.
By ihategrigris
From: Vancouver, BC
Aug 22, 2013
The Squamish select book calls in a 5.10a, but who knows? It feels a little harder than Zoe.
There's at least one place to put a #3 camalot, and depending on how much gear you want to place, it's a smart move to double up on everything from blue to red in the Metolius mastercams.
Fun route! My first 10a (or b?) trad onsite.


text:
Yogi Amrit Desai: Yoga Nidra
February 01, 2012
The founder of Amrit Yoga Institute and Ayurveda Wellness Center and an internationally recognized authority on yoga and holistic living, Yogi Amrit Desai is widely acknowledged for carrying the authentic voice of yoga throughout the world. In this video, he explains the meaning of the meditation and relaxation technique, yoga nidra.
Learn more about Yogi Amrit Desai:
Learn more about Yogi Amrit Desai:


text:
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has come out today and said that midfielder Joey Barton will not be leaving St James' Park in the January transfer window.
Joey Barton – going nowhere – and that's nice to hear
Since the news was put out yesterday by Sky Sports we are really pleased that Alan has denied that today – because selling Joey would be very hard to take for Newcastle fans, after we've already lost manager Chris Hughton.
West Ham and Aston Villa had been linked with the 28-year-old for a ridiculous price of just £1.5M, and the story was linked with Joey's huge contract on Tyneside running out in 18 months time.
But Pardew has told the Newcastle Journal today:
"We don't want to do any business.""Part of my first week or so here has been spent trying to analyze what is the situation with the players we have."
"And then try to secure their positions before we start looking elsewhere."
"That's been my main focus, rather than looking at other players who could raise the level here."
Barton has only appeared 60 games for Newcastle since arriving in 2007 for £5.8M from Man City, who Newcastle play next Sunday afternoon.
Joey loves it on Tyneside, and has been one of Newcatsle's top players this season back in the Premier League.
We don't just want to see Joey not to leave but we also want Newcastle to tie him down at the club with another contract.
We'll just have to wait and see on that one of course.
Comments welcome.


text:
The capture of Goran Hadzic, the Croatian Serb war crimes suspect extradited to The Hague on Friday, closes a big chapter in the book of tensions between the two biggest former Yugoslav republics.
Serbia's failure to find him until this week was a constant irritant for Croatia, among other lingering grievances since the 1990s break-up. Read more


text:
This section describes how to add neon support to an application. If you just want to quickly try out neon, use the neon-config script.
The neon source code is designed to be easily embedded into an application source tree. neon has no dependencies on libraries other than an SSL toolkit and XML parser, though the source tree can be configured to have no support for SSL or XML if desired. To configure the neon source code some GNU autoconf macros are supplied, which can be used in a number of ways, as follows:
autoconf macros are distributed in the 'macros' subdirectory of the neon distribution. Use the NEON_LIBRARY macro from your configure.in to check for the presence of the neon library installed on the system. The macro adds an '--with-neon=...' argument to configure, which allows the user to specify a location for the library (the standard /usr and /usr/local directories are checked automatically without having to be specified).
The 'src' directory of the neon package can be imported directly into your application, if you do not wish to add an external dependency. If you wish to bundle, use the NEON_BUNDLED macro to configure neon in your application: here, the neon sources are bundled in a directory called 'libneon':
NEON_BUNDLED(libneon, ...)
If your application supports builds where srcdir != builddir, you should use the NEON_VPATH_BUNDLED macro like this:
NEON_VPATH_BUNDLED(${srcdir}/libneon, libneon, ...)
If you use this macro, a '--with-included-neon' option will be added to the generated configure script. This allows the user to force the bundled neon to be used in the application, rather than any neon library found on the system. If you allow neon to be configured this way, you must also configure an XML parser. Use the NEON_XML_PARSER macro to do this.
The final argument to the _BUNDLED macros is a set of actions which are executed if the bundled build *is* chosen (rather than an external neon which might have been found on the user's system). In here, use either the NEON_LIBTOOL_BUILD or NEON_NORMAL_BUILD macro to set up the neon Makefile appropriately: including adding the neon source directory to the recursive make.
A full fragment might be:
NEON_BUNDLED(libneon, [ NEON_NORMAL_BUILD NEON_XML_PARSER SUBDIRS="libneon $SUBDIRS" ])
This means the bundled neon source directory (called 'libneon') is used if no neon is found on the system, and the standard XML parser search is used.


text:
According to reports, the Chinese solar modules major Trina Solar Ltd is looking for partners in India. The company would like to partner with an Indian entity that has a pipeline of projects with it, Dr Haiyan Sun, Trina's Vice President, Asia Pacific/Middle East Area/Africa Area, told Business Line today.
Dr Sun was here as a speaker at 'REaction 2012' a conference of the renewable energy industry. Asked to comment on industry rumours that Trina might take the place of BP in the erstwhile Tata BP Solar, Dr Sun merely said that Trina was talking to many companies.
Trina finds India to be a good and growing market for its product—mono and poly crystalline silicon modules.
The company is among the largest solar module manufacturers in the world, with a capacity to produce modules worth 2,400 MW, in China. He said that in India, Trina would be in a position to commit 17 per cent module efficiency. One MW of modules would produce around 1.7 million units of electricity, but of course, this would vary depending upon the location and design of the plant.
Dr Sun said that Trina could not participate in the National Solar Mission projects because of the 'local manufacture' condition. (Under Batch-I of Phase-I of the mission, developers were required to buy crystalline silicon modules made in India, but they could import 'thin film' modules. Under the second batch, even the cells, which are assembled into modules, needed to be made locally.)
However, Trina has supplied to India under other programmes, mainly the Gujarat solar programme. Dr Sun said that Trina thus far had shipped 100 MW worth of modules to India, of which around 70 MW had gone into installations, while the rest were part of projects under implementation.
The 3-day conference is being organised by Energy Alternatives India, a Chennai-based clean tech consultancy.


text:
649 articles tagged "Palestinians"
debkafile: Much of southern Israel closed to civilian traffic, US and Israeli bases on high alert for Hamas incursions from Sinai
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 1, 2008
Most highways of the southern Negev - which adjoins the unfenced 220-km Egyptian Sinai frontier - were ordered shut to civilian traffic early Saturday, Jan. 26, until further notice. This is Israel's most extensive terror alert ever, debkafile's military sources report. The big Israeli and American air and military bases in the region are on high terror alert following intelligence warnings that Hamas, Jihad Islami and al Qaeda are preparing to launch suicide operations across the porous Egyptian border from N. Sinai.
debkafile: Iran and Saudi Arabia step into Gaza crisis on Day 6 of Palestinian rampage in Sinai

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 1, 2008
Hamas bureau chief Khaled Meshaal is holding talks in Riyadh Monday, Jan. 28, while Sunday, a senior Iranian foreign ministry official arrived in Cairo.
Their intervention marks the failure of Egypt and Israel to anticipate the out-of-control exodus of half a million Palestinians from Gaza through a broken border fence and its exploitation as cover for Islamist terrorists to drive into new turf. Egyptian forces have in the last 24 hours, apprehended 30 armed Palestinians on their way to the Suez Canal.
Read debkafile's Special Report below on this unfolding crisis.
Abbas declares three days' mourning in Palestinian Authority for PFLP's George Habash, pioneer of airline hijacking

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 29, 2008
The Palestinian for the Liberation of Palestinian, the PLO's second largest group after Fatah, hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv, in 1968. Two years later, it carried out its spectacular three-plane hijack to Jordan. Like Hamas, this Christian left-wing radical, who broke with Yasser Arafat, opposed peace deals with Israel and firmly believed there could be no peace until Israel was destroyed. He died in Amman aged 81.
debkafile reports: Hamas Sinai coup glorified at counter-Annapolis conference in Damascus

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 26, 2008
US and Israeli intelligence sources report that the Hamas coup in breaking down the border between Gaza and Egyptian Sinai was timed for the opening Wednesday, Jan. 23 of the Palestinian National Congress in Damascus. This event was organized by Tehran and Damascus to counter the US-promoted Annapolis conference and discredit Mahmoud Abbas' diplomatic track with Israel under the US aegis.
debkafile: As trucks bring Gaza fuel, medicines and food from Israel - Palestinians fire 21 missiles Tuesday at Israeli targets
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 25, 2008
No casualties were reported in Sderot where 10 Qassam missiles exploded or S. Ashkelon which took two hits Tuesday,. Jan. 22. Gaza's power station is working again, powered by Israeli fuel. The UN Security Council meets Tuesday night for a session called by Arab governments to denounce Israel.
Monday night, Barak caved in and gave a "one-time" order to resume the heavy fuel and medicines deliveries to the Gaza Strip after two days' slowdown as a sanction against a hail of up to 40-50 missiles a day.
debkafile: Egyptian troops give way as more than 350,000 Palestinians surge across Gaza-Sinai crossing. No bar to arms smuggling
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 23, 2008
Hamas carried out its threat, reported by debkafile Sunday, to smash its way through the border from Gaza to Egyptian Sinai. Before dawn, Wednesday, Jan. 23, masked men blew up sections of the concrete border wall at the Rafah crossing. Thousands of Palestinians swarmed through as Egyptian border troops, reinforced overnight, fell back.
debkafile: Israeli skirmishes on fringes of Palestinian strongholds
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 15, 2008
Our military sources report that the Hamas, Jihad Islami and Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades leaders are under no illusion they can stand up to IDF tank columns with air force cover when Israel embarks on a major campaign for capturing sections of Gaza to stamp out Palestinian missile attacks. They are therefore practicing hit-and-run strikes against advancing Israeli forces, a tactic they plan to employ to cover their retreat to Gaza City, calculating that the IDF will not venture to follow them.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 11, 2008
The "Aqsa Martyrs", an offshoot of the Al Aqsa Brigades, which belong to Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, has just threatened "a big surprise" for President George W. Bush's 48 hours in Israel and the Palestinian Authority starting Wednesday, Jan. 9. The new threat has further tightened the security measures already paralyzing Jerusalem.
debkafile Reports: Hamas-Gaza opens fire on Israeli Navy vessels as violence on Israel's borders mounts ahead of Bush visit

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 10, 2008
Our military sources report that Tuesday noon, Jan. 8, Hamas machine-gun positions in Rafah and on offshore fishing boats opened fire on Israeli Navy vessels patrolling Mediterranean waters off the Gaza Strip. The ships' guns returned fire. When it continued and Hamas brought in reinforcements, Israeli Air Force helicopters were summoned to stop the shooting. At least one of the Palestinian boats was sunk.
Monday night, three 107mm Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed in the northern Israeli town of Shlomi, causing damage but no injuries.
debkafile Exclusive: Olmert and Jordan's King Abudullah discuss dissuading Abbas from stepping down

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 8, 2008
Have something in writing drawn up with Abbas ready to show Bush - even if it means nothing. That in a word was the advice Jordan's King Abdullah II gave Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert when they met in Aqaba Thursday, Jan. 3. Olmert offered to go along with the advice, but said he was worried about the Palestinian leader. Last week, Abbas confided to Abdullah and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak that he is very ill and fed up and sorely tempted to retire to his villa in Qatar.
Olmert told the king how he gave in to his personal request to allow four hard-line Palestinian cronies to enter the West Bank.
Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades claims to have fired a missile from Jenin to Moshav Shaked across the West Bank border
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 6, 2008
The claim made Wednesday night, Jan. 2 is under IDF investigation. Last week, Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority vowed that Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's terrorist arm, is defunct.
Third Israeli air attack Thursday kills Jihad Islami high-up in Gaza, Mohammed Abdullah Abu Murshad, and two aides

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 30, 2007
Murshad was in charge of Jihad's technical section which runs Qassam missile production. Altogether, 8 Palestinian terrorists died in Gaza Thursday, Dec. 27: three in Khan Younes, where a Palestinian anti-air missile came closer than ever before to downing an Israeli helicopter, and two Jihad Islami operatives in central Gaza, where their vehicle loaded with explosives was rocketed from the air. Still, Palestinian cross-border missile and mortar fire on Israel communities persisted, a Qassam exploding in the fruit groves of Kibbutz Erez. There were no casualties.
debkafile Exclusive: Fatah leaders conspire to unseat Salam Fayyad Palestinian PM and pre-empt his control of donated $7.4 bn

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 27, 2007
Our sources report the revolt is led by ousted Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan, jailed terrorist Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Qureia, chief Palestinian negotiator with Israel. The revolt was sparked, debkafile's Palestinian sources reveal, by the international donors' allocation of $7.4 bn for state-building. Dahlan and Co. are determined not to let this bonanza fall into the hands of a pro-American Fatah outsider.
debkafile Exclusive: Palestinian Hamas leaders from Gaza, on hajj with Israeli permission, met Iranian bosses on escalating anti-Israel war

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 24, 2007
As Palestinian missiles and mortar bombs continued to fly against Israeli border communities, debkafile reports that on Wednesday, Dec. 19, under cover of the annual Muslim pilgrimage which ended Friday, Hamas leaders got together in Mecca with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the al Qods Brigades officers in his retinue to discuss the next escalation of warfare against Israel.
Egypt did not bother to consult Israel before allowing top Hamas leaders in Gaza cross Sinai to Cairo airport. Among them was Khalil al Haya, whom debkafile's counter-terror sources rate the top Hamas decision-maker on war tactics in Gaza.
debkafile Exclusive: Hamas parades its first female commando and suicide units at huge 20th anniversary Gaza assembly

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 19, 2007
In addition to the female commmandos, our military sources report Hamas has formed hundreds of suicide killers into a large unit for obstructing a major Israeli offensive against its missile-mortar offensive from Gaza.
The hundreds of thousands of participants at the Hamas celebration in Gaza City Saturday, Dec. 15, were a demonstration of strength which belied claims of its waning powers. debkafile's military sources report that every passing week sees Hamas strength enhanced and better organized to take on Israeli counter-terror assaults.
debkafile Exclusive: Covert Syrian intelligence arm in al Qaeda-Lebanon sets up shop in Gaza

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 10, 2007
Our counter-terror sources report that the radical Fatah al Islam, which fought the Lebanese army almost four months from a stronghold in the Nahar al-Bard Palestinian refugee camp, issued a bulletin on al Qaeda web sites Sunday, Dec. 2. It announced the start of operations against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
A video tape attached to the notice shows a Qassam missile fired from Gaza on Nov. 25, two days before the Annapolis Middle East conference.
Israeli intelligence experts have picked out at least one Chechen voice from the background effects on the tape.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 8, 2007
Striking high school teachers demonstrating solidarity with Sderot ran for cover with its battered townspeople under the barrage.
Another missile exploded earlier south of Ashkelon. Wednesday night, Dec. 5, Palestinian mortars again pounded Nahal Oz Kibbutz and base. Early morning, two Israelis soldiers were injured in a mortar attack on Kissufim, the second IDF base to come under cross-border fire in 48 hours after Nahal Oz was struck earlier this week. Two Hamas gunmen were killed in an Israeli air strike which caught them on the point of firing mortars into Israel in northern Gaza near Beit Lahiya.
More than 57 Palestinians injured, dozens detained, in Hebron Wednesday, in the aftermath of anti-Annapolis riots sweeping main West Bank towns as well as Gaza

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 30, 2007
For the second time in 24 hours, pro-Abbas security forces opened fire - this time on the mourners at the funeral of a Palestinian shot dead at a rowdy demonstration Tuesday, which marked the opening of the Middle East conference in the US.
The Palestinian demonstrator was killed, scores were injured, as security forces shooting and wielding night sticks, broke up the disorders which swept through Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Qalqilya, and Tulkarm Tuesday.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 29, 2007
Two missiles and several mortar shells were fired from Gaza as the Middle East conference began in Annapolis along with furious Palestinians mass rallies in Gaza and Ramallah. Also Tuesday, Nov. 27, Israeli troops opened fire on a group of armed men approaching the Kerem Shalom crossing from Gaza.
Hamas terrorist Iyad Abu Shehidam sentenced to 18 life terms for murdering 16 people by suicide blasts on two Beersheba buses in 2004

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 27, 2007
An Israeli military tribunal found the terrorist guilty of plotting and preparing the explosives for the double attack which left more than 100 injured in Aug. 2004 in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba. He was also convicted of building a bomb vest for a Palestinian bomber, who was detained in July 2004 after he got cold feet on his way to bomb the Jerusalem coffeehouse Kaffit.


text:
Expenditure on poker machines in Victorian pubs and clubs fell 10.6 per cent in February, the latest data from the state regulator has shown.
Punters spent $181 million in February, down from $203 million in the same month last year. The amount was also a decline of 10.1 per cent on the previous month, according to the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation.
The fortunes in Victoria are in contrast to other states. In the financial year to date, while Victorian poker machine turnover is down 7 per cent, turnover in NSW and Queensland is up 3.9 and 3.4 per cent respectively.
Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Wilson attributed the slump to the removal of cash machines in venues and disruption associated with changes to the state's licensing structure.
The coalition enacted a ban on automatic teller machines in gaming venues in July 2012. As well, the operation of poker machines was handed over to venues, as opposed to former licensees
"This has involved the closure of venues, changes to venues, the removal of machines from venues and some machines have been offline for periods of time," Mr Wilson said.
Although the VCGLR monthly figures do not account for poker machine activity at Crown Casino, Mr Wilson said broad economic factors were at play, which were "also impacting the casino operator."
The Australian Financial Review


text:
YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. These factors are similar to those you might use to determine which business to select from a local Yellow Pages directory, including proximity to where you are searching, expertise in the specific services or products you need, and comprehensive business information to help evaluate a business's suitability for you. "Preferred" listings, or those with featured website buttons, indicate YP advertisers who directly provide information about their businesses to help consumers make more informed buying decisions. YP advertisers receive higher placement in the default ordering of search results and may appear in sponsored listings on the top, side, or bottom of the search results page.
Resume Writers in Atlantic City, NJ
1.Career Management Resume Services
Resume ServiceCareer & Vocational Counseling
My son recently graduated from college and needed some additional help with the development of a resume. We were partnered with Carolyn, and I am thoroughly impressed with the finished product. I woul
2.Class A Resume
Resume Service
Our Certified Professional Resume Developers And Career Counselors Will: Help you identify the skills, expertise, and accomplishments that will qualify you above the competition for the positions you
3.Career Gold Resume Development Serv
Resume ServiceCareer & Vocational Counseling
Experienced Resume Professionals and Career Counselors are available when you call! We will evaluate your career goals and create a concise, detailed, letter-perfect job search document that will capt
4.Federal Government Resumes USA
Resume ServiceEmployment Service-Government, Company, Fraternal, Etc
PROVEN EXPERTS IN THE WRITING OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESUMES Do It Right: Nearly 80% of applicants never receive an interview...because their private-sector resume didn't match the exacting standards,
5.CMS: Resumes! Resumes! Resumes!
Resume Service
THE BEST ONE-PAGE RESUME IN AMERICA! WE HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. Call Now! "You don't have to spend a fortune to have a first class resume." SERVICE LEVEL: This resume service is ideal for: BASIC LEV
6.Resume' Duck
Resume ServiceEmployment OpportunitiesWritersEmployment Consultants
Free LinkedIn Ebook and Manual
Thank you for writing my resume, it is very impressive. I certainly couldn't have written it like that on my own! Much appreciated!
More Info
7.Resume Writer USAServing the Atlantic City, NJ area
Resume ServiceCareer & Vocational Counseling
Linda Parker started Resume Writer USA in 1999. With 27 years of experience in the staffing industry as a Recruiter and Hiring Manager, working in the temporary and permanent placement industry, owner
Temporary Error.
Please try reloading the page.


text:
|View Thread | Return to Index | Read Prev Msg | Read Next Msg
The Loach Forum Archives (1)
Re: Clowns never stop eating!
Posted By: Amanda Welliver <firstname.lastname@example.com> In Response To: Clowns never stop eating! (Alistair)
Date: Saturday, 31 October 1998, at 12:42 a.m.
In Response To: Clowns never stop eating! (Alistair)
It happened. I knew it would only be a matter of time before I found a way to spend more money on my fish habit.
I loathe plastic plants, and I think my loaches have broken and uprooted so many of my live plants because they're crowded.
So, tomorrow I'm going to look at a used 180 gallon setup. I figure they should have enough space to swim around and forage and grow in there. =)
Messages In This Thread


text:
Members Login
New Members Sign-Up
Top Boards
Israel hails US call...
Egypt admits wounded...
Obama´s opportu...
Palestinians fire ro...
Israel, Palestinians...
Israel not honoring ...
Gaza Smugglers Ready...
Saudi Asks Israel to...
Israels Political S...
Mideast peace takes ...
Historical Perspectives
Yasser Arafat is the Big Winner (INN-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS OP-ED) by Arthur Cohn 11/20/03)
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2980
INN} ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS Articles-Index-Top
Yasser Arafat is the one who gains the most from the so-called Geneva peace plan. The State of Israel is its prime loser.
During the last few months, and especially after the acceptance of the road map, Arafat was urged to finally take concrete and serious steps against terror. Has he done anything to fulfil his obligations? What is happening now, in reality, is exactly the opposite: while he and his accomplices continue to praise suicide bombers as martyrs, they are hailed as partners for peace.
Yossi Beilin and his friends ignored, during the Oslo years, all signs of Palestinian refusal to honor their commitments. Arafat never used the word peace in Arabic; he said explicitly (Johannesburg, Stockholm) that Mohammed himself did not honor agreements. He educated a new generation to hatred of Israel and the Jew; and he misused enormous amounts of funds from many sources funds that were meant as a contribution to the well-being of the Palestinians for the creation of a terror infrastructure. He and his followers have learnt that regardless of their breaches of promises and agreements, nothing will happen. In fact, they are soon even rewarded, despite their frightening disregard of formal understandings. Even the terrorists who killed dozens of Israeli civilians in Israel against the explicit agreement in the Oslo treaty are to be freed in the framework of a new proposed agreement. It is almost an invitation to terrorize Israel now, with release sure to follow.
Arafat was urged to introduce democratisation of his government. Now, he can show the world how the democracy of the State of Israel works. The very same public figures who lost in three different elections (Burg against Ben Eliezer, Mitzna against Sharon, while Beilin was not even elected to the Knesset) are negotiating a peace plan. And the government of Switzerland - a proud democracy on its own - supports this totally undemocratic process financially and politically, thus willfully bypassing the democratically elected Israeli government.
Arafat rejected all peace proposals and never made any concrete counteroffer. Instead, in reaction to the far-reaching Ehud Barak/Bill Clinton proposals, he started the second genocide-terror Intifada. Now, again, Israeli politicians have made new proposals. Of course, Arafat doesnt officially endorse them. He just looks on, while official government sources in Israel reject them and, as a result thereof, are accused by the Arab countries, the UN and the EU of undermining the peace process. Again, Israel is the bad guy, accused of unbearable stubbornness.
The Israeli society, which was united in its stand against the arch- terrorist Arafat, is being divided again because of different reactions to the Geneva document. In the war against inhuman terror (Kill the Jews wherever you find them.), the Geneva plan succeeded to divide the Israelis and weaken their strength. Another success of Arafat, who built his strategy on the inner decay of Israel.
Arafat always described Israel as the last colonial power. He denied the historic roots of Israel in this area and ignored even the deep connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem. Now it is suggested that the Jews give up all their rights to the holiest site of their tradition, the Temple Mount, which was, for thousands of years, the center of their prayers and longings. Let us remember: Anwar Sadat prayed in Jerusalem towards Mecca, while Jews around the world are always Jerusalem-oriented.
Now, for the first time in history, Israel is requested by Israelis to give up willingly their rights in the heart of Jerusalem, the basis of their Zionism, thus justifying Arafats claim; he has historic bonds with Jerusalem, while Israel and the Jews are colonialists.
There is an additional irony in the Geneva proposal, in that Jewish worship in holy places will again depend on the Palestinians. Dont we know how they respect religious rights? From 1948 until 1967, we didnt even get access to the Wailing Wall (despite Arab commitments). And who doesnt remember what happened since Oslo to the synagogue of Jericho and the tomb of Joseph in Nablus?
The proposed plan includes - so we are told - a formal retreat from the Palestinians right to return. However, there is no such clear paragraph in the agreement (and Palestinian participants denied such an understanding).
Tens of thousands of refugees will have to be absorbed by Israel. The moral responsibility of Israel for the refugee problem is not waived. As usual, in such Beilin documents, this very central issue is dealt with in an unclear and ambiguous manner, posing a frightening danger to any true understanding in the future.
What an irony: Israel has to retreat from its historic places (like Hebron, where Jews have always lived) and make the Palestinian State judenrein, while Israel with its one million Palestinian Arabs has to absorb many more .
The new plan will automatically become the basis for further negotiations; like the Barak plan, which was the starting point of the present Beilin initiative.
The expectation of the Palestinians in regard to a peace agreement with Israel are increasing in a dangerous manner with every peace proposal of this kind. Who is the Palestinian leader of the future who can bargain for less than what irresponsible Israeli politicians agreed to in this Geneva document?
Consequently, the Geneva document is not bringing peace closer but just the opposite: Peace is being put off to a very distant future! (IsraelNationalNews © 11/19/03)
Return to Top


text:
The Dengue Fever alert is over in Martin County
Folks in Martin County are breathing a sigh of relief. The Palm Beach Post reports The Florida Department of Health has declared an end to its 2013 dengue fever advisory. There hasn't been a case of dengue fever in Martin County since mid-September. Over five months, 22 people who lived or visited the Rio-Jensen Beach area developed the tell-tale symptoms of high fever and bone-racking aches. All had been ill with the same sub-type of dengue virus, one that's widespread in other parts of the world. Officials believe an infected visitor brought it here some time in May, and voracious mosquitoes made sure the virus spread.
In Palm Beach County, as recently as mid-November two sentinel chickens from health department test flocks were positive for another dangerous viral mosquito-borne disease, St. Louis encephalitis.
Photo by: Tyson


text:
Discover a selection of top forums builds neroxteam on the internet. Come to share your passion on forums builds neroxteam and meet other fans of builds neroxteam. Then, why don't you create your own forum of builds neroxteam ?
This series is based on the CTCS in the Grand-Am Series. This series has specific builds for each model to make them as equal as possible, thus ensuring DRIVER ability comes to the top.
forza, continental, tire, challenge, series, this, based, ctcs, grand-am, specific, #builds, each, model, make, them, equal, possible, thus, ensuring, driver, ability, comes
EVE Corp. forum for sharing builds, plans, and general information.
Online community for people interested in building any scale car, aircraft or boat
scale, #builds, online, community, people, interested, building, aircraft, boat
Brickworks Minecraft Build Team
brickworks, minecraft, buildteam, #builds, free, planetminecraft, maps, fantasy, roleplay, minehut, slimeemperor, kazpers
Pocket Master Database is a community dedicated to making the gameplay experience more social, easier to learn, and overall more enjoyable. Join today and see what we're all about!
pocket, master, database, pokedex, guides, #builds, community
Free forum : From Newbies to Advance fliers all welcome! Discuss your builds, projects, and new toys!
multirotor, discussion, newbies, advance, fliers, #builds, projects, quadcopter, quadcopters, multirotors
Let's use this forum to organize parties, discuss items, builds, get more personal and have a laugh.
guilds, let's, organize, parties, discuss, items, #builds, personal, laugh
A forum dedicated to car audio builds. As you build your car you can keep it up to date for your records and for others wanting to ideas for their vehicles.
audio, build, logs, dedicated, #builds, records, wanting, ideas, their
This site is for me to share my ideas, interests, and builds with others, to exchange ideas and to learn.
marinette, county, hobbist, site, share, ideas, interests, #builds, exchange, learn
Tombaland is the name of this cool 24/7 dedicated multiworld survival and creative server packed with features. Get ranked up fast, see all the amazing builds, build cities and watch the community grow!
minecraft, server, tombaland, 24/7, servers, name, this, cool, dedicated, multiworld, survival, creative, packed, with, features, ranked, fast