Egozi’s Fury

Egozi’s Fury

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egozi's fury featureThe United States announced it will protect Japan against potential threats, especially North Korea. The Japanese are smart and the announcement probably made them smile. The saw how the U.S. dealt with the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, or with the so called “destruction” of Assad’s chemical weapons.

With typical Japanese politeness, Tokyo probably thanked Washington for its efforts while taking some precautions of its own. I don’t think anyone in Japan actually trusts the U.S. to save them from threats like North Korea – or anybody else.

Yesterday, as if to make matters worse, North Korea continued to spit in the face of the entire international community and announced its plans to conduct another nuclear experiment.

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I heard it and I still can’t believe it. The United States government gave two American companies permits to export airplane parts to Iran. The attack of happiness, friendship and smiles by the ayatollahs in Iran succeeded beyond all expectations. Now they get replacement parts for airplane engines. Tomorrow they’ll get passenger planes and maybe even fighter jets. I take my hat off to the Ayatollahs. They understood exactly how naive the Americans are, and they’re busy exploiting every inch of that naivety. I think even they didn’t exepct to succeed that much.

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At the beginning it was just a show, then it turned out to be the worst show in town. Now it turned into something that can’t even be described. In light of what’s known as the peace talks with the Palestinians even the Americans finally understood that there’s nothing to discuss. They realized what every child in Israel already knew – you can’t have peace with people that want to destroy you. Secretary Kerry and President Obama understand that Mahmoud Abbas knew in advance that there won’t be an agreement, although he still tried to get as many gifts from Israel as he could, while still assisted by U.S. pressure. He won’t get the third gift – the release of additional terrorists with blood on their hands – but he’s still pleased, he already got two. Israel got exactly nothing in return and it’s still going to get blamed for the talks’ failure. That’s how things are when there’s no leader in Jerusalem capable of making decisions.

iHLS – Israel Homeland Security

Yesterday Justice Minister Tsippi Livni, who was in charge of these so called negotiations, blamed Housing Minister Uri Ariel for damaging the peace process by insisting on additional building activities in Judea and Samaria. While it’s certainly true that Ariel’s timing was off, how exactly can it harm a process that never existed to begin with?

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Communications Minister Gilad Ardan appeared on the cover of a weekend magazine carrying electrical wiring and pipelines. Whoever directed that photo wanted to stress how the minister was going to fix the ailing Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA). He’s now threatening to close it down and reopen it. A true hero. But Minister Ardan is also responsible for the Home Front Defense Ministry. If he spent as much effort there he probably would not have had his picture taken, but we would have been much more protected in case of war or disaster.

It’s also a little bit strange in general. Why would a minister who wants to be taken seriously have his photograph taken with all those accessories? He’s not a hardware store model, he’s a cabinet minister. I guess anything goes in Israel, though.

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Cabinet ministers have some strange definitions sometimes. Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich visited an Arab village in the Upper Galilee recently, where a “price-tag” incident took place. The minister stated that these acts are “borderline terrorism”… borderline, sure. Unbelievable. Price tag incidents are terrorism, pure and simple. This inability to deal with the phenomenon raises a lot of questions.

Unknown assailants raided the village last Wednesday, leaving 40 vehicles with punctured tires and a graffiti sprayed on a village wall.

We can catch former prime ministers who went bad, heads of crime families, but never the perpetrators of price tag attacks. If anybody understands why I’d like to hear it know.