Reading "Success Is Not an Accident" and here's what it's about: - jackalopekid's posterous
An Israeli in Dubai (Haaretz Israel News)
- After four days in this wonderful place, I want to go home. Talking with the people has taught me respect for the ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, his vision and resolve. He developed the emirate from a beach to the top of the international glitterati scene with hardly any oil revenue, which made me think unhappy things about the leadership in Jerusalem.
I learned about the order the local government preserves, the paucity of crime, the openness to strangers, and the political pragmatism of the emirs. I also feel uncomfortable about the hordes of foreign workers, who have a majority but no political power.
Trust the settlers to lose the West Bank - Haaretz - Israel News
- For more than 40 years, Israelis have subsidized settlers, defended their enclaves with their life's blood, drove on disintegrating highways even as transportation budgets laid down dedicated settler roads to remote hills and preposterous trailer camps, all the while listening to West Bank rabbis issuing rulings justifying violence against Arabs, refusal to serve in the army, and opposition and resistance to Israeli soldiers, police, and government. It has further hurt the settler cause that their rightist allies have led the fight to foil a deal to free Gilad Shalit.
The anger, the settlers are always shocked to discover, cuts both ways.
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