Where does Israel get its oil? From Russia and former Soviet republics. Israel produces only a couple thousand barrels of oil a day, which means it relies on the global market for more than 99 percent of its consumption. |
Israel's Chronic Water Problem Water is considered as a national resource of utmost importance. Water is vital to ensure the population's well-being and quality of life and to preserve the rural-agricultural sector. Israel has suffered from a chronic water shortage for years. In recent years however, the situation has developed into a crisis so severe that it is feared that by the next summer it may be difficult to adequately supply municipal and household water requirements. The current cumulative deficit in Israel's renewable water resources amounts to approximately 2 billion cubic meters, an amount equal to the annual consumption of the State. The deficit has also lead to the qualitative deterioration of potable aquifer water resources that have, in part, become either of brackish quality or otherwise become polluted. The causes of the crisis are both natural and man-made. Israel has suffered from four consecutive years of drought. The increase in demand for water for domestic uses, caused by population growth and the rising standard of living, together with the need to supply water pursuant to international undertakings have led to over-utilization of its renewable water sources. The policy for the water sector, particularly in the past decade, combined with the absence of adequate action facing the impending water shortage situation, has contributed to the severity of the present crisis. The agricultural sector has suffered most because of the crisis. Due to the shortage, water allocations to the sector had to be reduced drastically causing a reduction in the agricultural productivity. The current crisis has led to the realization that a master plan for policy, institutional and operational changes is required to stabilize the situation and to improve Israel's water balance with a long-term perspective. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... |
Raytheon has announced plans to use videogame technology in its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.
Currently, the larger, armed British and American UAV drones buzzing around Afghanistan and Iraq are operated from a base in Arizona, using aircraft-style joysticks and visual data from on-board videocameras. Raytheon claims to have built a system based on the Xbox 360 processor which generates a videogame-like view using accurately mapped terrain, and will replace the joysticks, which become unwieldy over the course of eight-hour shifts, with lower-input controllers. Indeed, many of the smaller, unarmed, hand-launched UAVs already use controllers similar to those of the Xbox 360.
Of the 40 drones lost by the US military and air force in the past five years, 67% went down due to operator error, so at £5m each, the move could save a lot of money. And if the technology is adopted, operators could simply be trained to the requisite level of proficiency on £200-£300 Xbox 360s or PlayStation 3s, rather than costly simulators.
The key to the adoption of videogame technology in war is the sheer number-crunching power of the latest consoles. Anyone who has played Call of Duty 4, for example, will testify to the startling realism of modern war videogames. And videogames have already insinuated themselves into military life, the most famous example being America's Army, which was commissioned by the US army and launched in 2002 as a recruitment tool - it has since become one of the world's most popular games online. Future wars, it seems, could be won by the side with the most agile thumbs.
Gaza's Birthrate Highest in Middle East. There are already more people in Gaza than before the Israeli invasion.
Of all the regions in the Middle East for which statistics are available, Gaza has the highest total fertility rate (TFR).
Gaza's TFR is 7.9, meaning the average woman in Gaza will have a total of 7.9 children in the course of her lifetime, given current birthrates. The only figures near that fertility rate anywhere in the Middle East are 7.8 in Oman, 7.6 in Yemen and 7.1 in Syria. By contrast, the West Bank TFR is 5.7, a figure closer to countries at the low end of the scale like Israel with 2.9, Turkey with 3.6, Lebanon with 3.7, Egypt with 3.9 and Bahrain with 4.2.
Israel's attitude concerns the welfare of Jews only. The religious state of Israel is making the same mistake the Nazis made.
The Nazis excluded the Jews from the state and Israel with a similar philosophy of exclusion in the end is weakening its power base...................
Research also includes significant information on the future of Judaism within Israel itself. DellaPergola said that 78 percent of Israel's population is Jewish, and by 2050 it will drop to between 65-69 percent. However, if Israel is defined as "between the Jordan River and the sea," that is includes the territories, then the Jewish population is only 53 percent and is expected to fall to between 26-35 percent by 2050. He concludes that "there is an urgent need for separation between the two nations. It is important to define two separate state entities, where a maximum of Jews will be concentrated on the area meant for Jews."
"Meant for Jews" means for the" chosen people of God."
(very similar to the "Pure Aryan concept" of the Nazis.)(Ric)
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