From my other blog - a new blog I started a few weeks ago: "Beautiful Garden of Petach Gan Eden".

http://petachganeden.blogspot.com/2010/09/tefillat-hageshem-prayer-for-rain.html

Tefillat Hageshem: Prayer for Rain

Today was Shemini Atzeret, the last day of our month-long holiday season ( combined in Israel with Simchat Torah, while in the Galut an extra day is added for Simchat Torah - I don't like the dichotomy, but that is another story). On this day, Jews the world over pray for rain: rain for the Land of Israel, rain that is so scarce at times that the ground is parched.....we pray for God to open His stores of bounty for His people.

So here is the text of the prayer we said today in the synagogue, in Hebrew, in front of the opened Ark. May God listen to our prayers and grant us plentiful rain this year: we really, really need it!

"Tefilat Geshem" - The Prayer for Rain

( from ArtScroll Sukkot Machzor)

"Af-Bri is designated as the name of the angel of rain; to thicken and to form clouds, to empty them and to cause rain.

Water with which to crown the valley's vegetation may it not be withheld because of our unredeemed debt.

In the merit of the faithful Patriarchs protect the ones who pray for rain.


Blessed are You, HASHEM, Shield of Abraham.
You are eternally mighty, my Lord, the Resuscitator of the dead are You; abundantly able to save.

May He obligate [the Angel Af-Bri] to give us portions of the segregated rain, to soften the wasteland's face when it is dry as rock.

With water You symbolized Your might in Scripture, to soothe with its drops those in whom was blown a soul, to keep alive the ones who recall the strengths of the rain."

G-d is implored to provide healthful rain to us in the merit of our forefathers and other great leaders of Israel, in connection with whom water-related verses are cited:

"Our God and the God of our forefathers:

Remember the Patriarch [Abraham], who was drawn behind You like water. You blessed him like a tree replanted alongside streams of water. You shielded him, You rescued him from fire and from water. You tested him when he sowed upon all waters.

  For his sake, do not hold water back!

Remember the one [Isaac] born with the tidings of, 'Let some water be brought. ' You told his father to slaughter him - to spill his blood like, water. He too was scrupulous to pour his heart like water. He dug and discovered wells of water.

  For the sake of his righteousness, grant abundant water!

Remember the one [Jacob] who carried his staff
and crossed the Jordan's water.
He dedicated his heart and rolled a stone
off the mouth of a well of water,
as when he was wrestled by an angel composed of fire and water.
Therefore You pledged to remain with him through fire and water.

  For his sake, do not hold water back!

Remember the one [Moses] drawn forth in a bulrush basket from the water. They said, 'He drew water and provided the sheep with water.' At the time Your treasured people thirsted for water, he struck the rock and out came water.

  For the sake of his righteousness, grant abundant water!

Remember the appointee [Aaron] over the Temple, who made five immersions in the water. He went to cleanse his hands through sanctification with water. He called out and sprinkled [blood bringing] purity as with water. He remained apart from a people of waterlike impetuosity.

 For his sake, do not hold water back!

Remember the twelve tribes You caused
to cross through the split waters,
for whom You sweetened the water's bitter taste.
Their offspring whose blood was spilt for You like water.
Turn to us - for woes engulf our souls like water.

  For the sake of their righteousness, grant abundant water!

For You are HASHEM, our God,

Who makes the wind blow and makes the rain descend.

For blessing and not for curse.
  For life and not for death.
  For plenty and not for scarcity.

Water: finally some action. B"H! And thank you, MK Uzi Landau.

Pirate Arab Water Connections Detached

Elul 19, 5770, 29 August 10 03:28

by Hillel Fendel

(Israelnationalnews.com) Over 200 Arab pirate connections to Israel’s main water lines, siphoning off water to PA Arabs who do not pay, have been detached in a joint police-Mekorot action.
Mekorot Water Company workers, under close police protection, have completed an operation disconnecting 230 pirate Arab connections to Israel’s main water lines. The connections siphoned off much-needed water for the benefit of Palestinian Authority Arabs, who thus avoided paying for the commodity.
In addition, the IDF’s Judea Region destroyed several small reservoirs in which stolen water was gathered in the Kiryat Arba-Hevron region.
On yet another front in the war against water thieves, police have begun laying ambushes, making several arrests and confiscating over 85,000 meters (53 miles) of piping used to pipe the stolen H2O to Arab fields and homes.
Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau, who gave the order to take a stronger hand against the water thefts, expressed his satisfaction with the cooperation among the various bodies. “We plan to continue working to stop all water piracy, which affects the lives of all residents in the region," he added.
Residents of Kiryat Arba and neighboring communities, and Arabs as well, have suffered from lack of water in their faucets on numerous occasions, especially on especially hot days. The army has been frequently forced to deliver water to the towns. It has also been noticed, at the same time, that Arab fields along the roads of Judea appear to be extra green and thriving.
“Water theft is a grave phenomenon,” Landau said, “and it most manifest in Judea and Samaria. We have to deal with it seriously, especially in a country like ours where water is so precious.”
In a related item, the level of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel’s main water reservoir, is in the midst of its customary summer drop. It now stands at approximately 213.5 meters below sea level – slightly more than half a meter higher than it was last year at this time. However, it is also a half-meter below the level beyond which authorities strive not to let it drop.

Comment:

We have been publicizing and complaining about this issue for over two years now

Unbelievable... or should I say, BELIEVABLE, knowing Israelis ...

even taking pictures of green fields of the Arabs in Bet-Omar in the midst of severe drought two years ago...

It is nice to know that somebody is finally listening, and realizing what a devastating impact tolerance of this water robbery is having on Jewish life in Israel.

A little humor at "their" expense - they deserve it; but meanwhile this is anything but funny. During the 3 weeks, the enemy (without and within) has decided on a new SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.

 PA Thieves Drain Jewish Town Dry
by Maayana Miskin


Sixty Jewish families living in the town of Pnei Hever, near Hevron, face a Sabbath without water due to Palestinian Authority water thieves. Officials at Mekorot, Israel's national water company, say they are unable to help.

Pnei Hever and other Jewish towns in the Hevron region have faced daily water theft for some time. PA Arabs drill into water pipes leading to the town every night, stealing an estimated 75% of the towns' water supply.

On Thursday night, PA thieves drilled into the pipes leading to Pnei Hever and rerouted the water supply. Residents of the village woke up Friday morning to find that they had only 10 cubic meters of water to split between hundreds of people.

As Mekorot workers said they could not help, residents turned to the Public Security Ministry and Ministry for National Infrastructure in the hope of getting assistance.

A similar incident took place last Thursday, when residents of Pnei Hever awoke to discover that nearly all of their water had been stolen overnight. Children were forced to go to school or daycare without so much as brushing their teeth or washing their hands.

Yigal Klein, head of the Pnei Hever secretariat, said the water theft phenomenon was a familiar one. A resident recently witnessed an Arab truck driver fiddling with a water pipe near the Jewish town of Susiya, he said. “Many times trucks fill up with water and drive to the [Arab] villages,” he said.

Some of the pipes bringing water to local Jewish villages pass through Arab villages, where residents do what they please with the water supply and the IDF's hands are tied, he said.

Water bills have risen repeatedly in the last few months with a 5% rise to take effect shortly.

"What's most worrisome is that we've been told to prepare for an entire summer like this,” he said. “Our regional council is trying to put pressure on the government ministries, on the Water Authority, on Mekorot, but we're getting the feeling that this is what's been decreed for us and there's nothing to do.”

Thanks to E.T. for both items


UPDATE:

No Water Again in Jewish Town Due to Arab Theft

Tammuz 25, 5770, 07 July 10 09:57

(Israelnationalnews.com) Another water stoppage in the Jewish town of Beit Hagai in the Har Hebron region due to water theft by PA Arabs.
Hebron Region Council Head, Zviki Bar Hai, said in response, "It's time the Defense Minister stopped worrying about easing conditions for the Palestinians, and worried more about supplying water to Jews and stopping its theft by Arabs."

Arabs Steal Water from Beit Hagai, Ma'alei Hever

Tammuz 26, 5770, 08 July 10 11:13

(Israelnationalnews.com) Water to the Jewish towns of Bet Hagai and Ma'alei Hever, in the southern Hevron hills, has been cut off since 6 PM Wednesday, due to illegal Arab activity. The Arabs have apparently tapped into a pipe that supplies water to the town and diverted it for their own use. The IDF has not attempted to stop the Arab water theft, and instead is supplying residents with water from tankers – although, residents say, that water is insufficient for their needs.

Water theft in the area is a common phenomenon, residents said. Officials of the town sent an emergency request to Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau to do something to prevent the thefts.

PS : And look who is calling the kettle black:

Arabs say Israel drying up regional water reserves

In conference of water minister from Arab states, Jordanian representative accuses Israel of 'stealing water' in West Bank, Lebanon, and Golan; suggests international campaign to clarify Arabs' water rights
Doron Peskin

It has been said that the next Middle East war will be fought over water. While other reasons for conflict have come up since this sentence was first uttered, the water issue remains a potent one and will likely remain on the agenda for the foreseeable future.

The water shortage in the Middle East is a threat to all the countries in the region. The wealthy states, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, found a solution in investing billions of dollars in water desalination plants.

Opposing View

Palestinians stealing water in West Bank / Shmulik Grossman Irregular water supply on IDF bases, settlements near Mount Hebron has become routine recently. Via pirate connections to source, Palestinian neighbors are stealing millions of shekels of water per year. Situation growing worse Full Story

The Middle East today is responsible for some 75% of the world's water desalination. However, the less wealthy countries in the region, without the deep pockets needed to fund the relatively pricey desalination, are in trouble.
In order to discuss the water crisis, water and irrigation ministers from the Arab states fathered in Cairo. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa also attended the conference. During the panels, an accusatory finger was directed at Israel for drying up its neighbors resources and "stealing Arab water."
In his speech before the conference, Jordanian Water and Irrigation Minister Mohammad Najjar called on his Arab colleagues to join hands and work together to grapple with the Israeli "thefts." According to him, Israel uses 80% of the water from the West Bank and 30% of Lebanon's groundwater. He claimed that Israel is stealing the water via the Golan.

Najjar highlighted the severity of the water situation in the region, noting that 70% of the region's water is not local. He also mentioned that precipitation in the region accounts for just 2% of precipitation in the world. He called upon his colleagues to launch an international campaign clarifying the Arabs' water rights.
The conference took place as assessments indicate rising demand for water in Arab countries in light of the rapid population growth and economic development they are witnessing. Studies published recently in the Arab world indicated that an investment of at least $100-200 billion in the Arab water sector over the next few years is necessary in order to meet t he steadily rising demand.
During regional water conferences held in recent months, experts have demanded that the governments cutback or halt all together their subsidization of water prices in order to decrease water consumption and waste.

COMMENT:

It is of course deliberate, and our authorities, chief among them our OFFENSE MINISTER EHUD BARAK, are cooperating fully with this criminal assault on the Jewish People of Yesha.

Thank G-d, we do have water in Kiryat Arba for the time being - for how much longer?

If our government weren't an accomplice to this crime, not only we, but all of Israel would have more than enough water to supply all our needs. Our water shortage is artificial, and is created by A) letting the enemy help themselves, B) giving them water in addition, and in great quantities, and C) Mekorot etc. benefiting financially from higher water prices charged to Israelis.

This is a SIEGE of Jerusalem, again, before Tisha Be'av ( in this case, not Jerusalem, but the towns around Hevron). They figure they can get Jews to leave this way: they can't get us with their armies, it is easier and cheaper to simply cut off the water.

THIS IS AN ACT OF WAR AGAINST US. We should retaliate accordingly, but don't count on it. 

Water battles go back to the days of Abraham, this is nothing new in this region. If we had a government FOR the people instead of AGAINST the people, it would REACT SEVERELY to this SEVERE ASSAULT on us, its citizens.

Until the people WAKE UP, and are WILLING TO FACE THEIR REAL ENEMY, THE GOVERNMENT BACKED BY OUR ENEMIES ON THE OUTSIDE, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

 SHmuel concurs:

"Little sheet heads" it is... :)

Water theft.  Indeed Barak is involved on it. A couple of bulldozers would cover the pipes to make it very difficult to steal.

Sabotage by Barak 100%. Netanyahu is by now just as guilty.

PA Arabs' selfishness and depravity exposed to the whole world: CORRUPT , MERCILESS THIEVES, even to their own people.

Stormy Fatah Conference Extended
Av 15, 5769, 05 August 09 11:35
by Maayana Miskin

(Israelnationalnews.com) Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the head of Fatah, had a busy day Wednesday as he referreed an increasingly angry Fatah conference. Conference spokesman Nabil Amr admitted that the second day of talks between thousands of Fatah's worldwide representatives was “stormy.”

The chief cause of delegates' discontent was the fact that Fatah's Central Committee had failed to prepare even basic information regarding the last two decades of Fatah activities.

Among other things, the committee was unable to answer delegates' questions about Fatah's finances. Fatah has often faced charges of financial corruption, particularly as the Fatah-led PA continues to fall into debt despite receiving billions of dollars in international aid.

Abbas attempted to calm conference attendees by promising them more time to meet and discuss issues. Senior Fatah officials confirmed that the conference may not end on Thursday as previously planned.

Abbas also promised delegates that those responsible for failing to adequately prepare for the meeting would be punished. He offered his own speech from the day before as an alternative source of information on Fatah's recent history.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Fatah officials were planning to continue with Thursday's agenda, which is to include the nomination of new members for Fatah's Central Committee and Revolutionary Council.

Report: Bethlehem Without Water
While Abbas' announcement that the conference would be extended may have appeased Fatah delegates, it is likely to have annoyed residents of Bethlehem, the city in which Fatah is meeting. According to Ynet, the Fatah conference has led to a cutoff in water to many neighborhoods of the city.

Instead of receiving water, residents are being told to buy large containers of water, which can cost up to NIS 1,000 each week.

In addition, Bethlehem residents complained that several local streets had been closed for the conference, and that traffic was regularly snarled by senior Fatah members coming and going with their security details.

Al-Aksa Infuriated by Zubeidi Snub
Another reason for Fatah infighting Wednesday was an apparent snub directed at Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades delegate Zakariya al-Zubeidi. While Zubeidi formally renounced his terrorist life several months ago in exchange for clemency from the Olmert government, he remained an official Fatah delegate representing the terrorist Al-Aksa offshoot.

Despite his continuing membership in Fatah, Zubeidi was turned away from the conference when he arrived on Tuesday. While he was later allowed in, the perceived rejection of Al-Aksa angered many of the group's leaders.

An Al-Aksa terrorist interviewed by the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency on Wednesday accused Fatah of “stabbing resistance in the back,” while a second warned, “This is humiliation for the Al-Aksa Brigades, and they won't let it go unquestioned.”

ABOUT WATER: AN INTERESTING ARTICLE

If given the opportunity, Syria will ruin our main water source

Guy Bechor

Syria is experiencing an economic holocaust. There is no other way to describe what the Syrian regime is so much trying to hide. The country is drying up, and no less than 250,000 farmers were forced in the past three years to abandon their land and migrate to the large cities. They live in tents there, completely neglected by the regime. These figures appeared in a special study undertaken by the United Nations and published on the al-Arabiya website.

The immense Euphrates River, Syria's main source of water, is drying up. The Turks are stopping its water in their territory, so that Syria and Iraq are receiving a declining portion of the water. Within about 10 years, the river is expected to dry up completely outside Turkish territory. Today already, it reaches Syria with contaminated water and therefore its fish, an important source of livelihood, is becoming extinct.

As result of the drought that had been plaguing Syria for several years now, another important Syrian water source, the Aasi (Orontes) River, is drying up as well. Its water is becoming saltier and increasingly contaminated, and its fish are dying off. And without fish, there is no livelihood. Entire villages fed by its waters for hundreds of years are simply being deserted.

Ground water in the country had reached such nadir that it is no longer possible to use the roughly 420,000 illegal wells dug by residents over the years. If there is no water, there is no agriculture; people proceed to leave the village and move to the city. As there is no work there either, the distress is terrible and political pressures builds up.

Many of the farmers leaving their villages are Kurd, which makes the problem an ethnic one. The Kurdish refugees accuse the regime of doing nothing for them. For several years now they have been living in thousands of tents near the big cities without being addressed.

Should Israel pay for Syrian failures?

It turns out that the ruling Baath party is at fault for everything. During the 1960s, the party decided to turn Syria into a grain-exporting state. They viewed it as a victory of the Syrian agrarian revolution. For that reason, they forced the farmers to shift from herding, on semi-arid land, to growing grain. The regime turned a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of wells that were dug in order to water the grain. Any economist who dared to speak out against this policy was jailed.

Now, with the terrible drought, the grim results are overwhelming this land of 20 million people, half of them farmers. Instead of the 1.9 million tons of grains they expected to produce this year, the farmers managed to supply only 892,000 tons. Ruin in Syrian terms. The implication is that Syria is importing its grains today and has no money.

Syria has an existential interest in getting its hands on the Sea of Galilee in order to get the water needed for its agricultural land. Meanwhile, the water of our poor Kinneret reaches both Israel and Jordan at this time (we provide a fixed amount every year in line with our peace treaty.) Should Syria touch the Kinneret, the amounts of water pumped out of it will be huge. As it ruined its own rivers and ground water, Syria will also ruin our main water source. It has its sights on it, even though it is uninterested in peace with Israel.

Should Israel pay for the failures and mediocrity of the Syrian Baath party? Moreover, when one realizes how badly Turkey robs Syria, should we choose Turkey as the mediator between us and the Syrians? After all, Turkey has an existential interest in seeing the Syrians get the Kinneret. It will take the pressure off.

Ahead of the possible resumption of negotiations with Syria, we should know these figures and be cautious. We should hope that the Americans, who wish to advance talks on the Syrian track, will also be aware of this information.

 

GREAT INTERVIEW WITH AN HONEST WATER EXPERT; he is so right ( but naive) ; I hope he prevails. Pass the word around! Israel's Ongoing Water Crisis

There is only one small thing this expert doesn't seem to understand: there is a covert reason why Israel is doing nothing to improve the water situation: IT DOESN'T WANT TO IMPROVE IT! Remember who Bibi and Barak work for: THE NEW WORLD ORDER. And the New World Order has NO INTEREST IN ISRAEL BEING WATER SELF-SUFFICIENT: it wants to keep us in a state of continued shortage and dependency, even drought. The ultimate reason? To deprive us of agriculture, food, and everything else.

The opposite side of the coin is a DELIBERATE EFFORT TO HELP PA AGRICULTURE WITH MASSIVE WATER PROJECTS SUCH AS THE BANI-NAIM WATER GRAND ROBBERY.

DITTO WHEN IT COMES TO BABIES: FOR ISRAEL, IT IS GAY PRIDE, NO NATURAL GROWTH; FOR ARABS IT IS MOTHER AND CHILD CLINICS.

THE MESSAGE IS VERY CLEAR:

JUDEN RAUS!

And our CFR PM is not about to oppose that. Consequence? NO PROGRESS IN THE WATER FRONT... and experts scratching their heads, wondering why the government is so 'BLIND', so "WRONG".....

NOT BLIND, NOT WRONG, EVIL!

WHERE IS THE OUTCRY? ALSO, NOTICE HOW THEY GO AFTER WATER. AN ATTEMPT TO DRY OUT JEWISH RESIDENTS IN THE BURNING HOT AND DRY ISRAEL SUMMER - meanwhile, go see the pools of the Arabs, and their wells. OUTRAGEOUS.

Police Warn of More Expulsions in Judea and Samaria

Tammuz 20, 5769, 12 July 09 10:54

by Yehudah Lev Kay

(Israelnationalnews.com) On Sunday morning, the police said they have plans to take down 11 buildings in Judea and Samaria. The announcement came less than a week after Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned he would take down 23 outposts.

"Israel is demonstrating a will to meet the U.S. demands [to freeze construction in Judea and Samaria]," Barak said last week after meeting with U.S. envoy George Mitchell in London. The only concrete step the Defense Minister mentioned was "evacuating 23 outposts over the next few weeks and months."

The police did not take long to implement Barak's policy in the field, and sent a letter to Samaria Council head Gershon Mesika warning him to take down 11 unauthorized buildings in several communities by Sunday, after which the police would do so themselves.

The 11 buildings are structures built in existing communities and outposts including Yitzhar, Havat Gilad, Har Bracha, Havot Yair, Itamar, and Mevo Dotan. In some cases, the buildings are nothing more than a ritual bath or a man-made pool, but in others they are residences.

"Ever since this government was established, the situation on the ground in Judea and Samaria has only gotten worse," said Yossi Dagan, spokesman for the Samaria Council. "The Defense Ministry led by Ehud Barak is acting like an extension of the U.S. State Department and has not ceased to chase after the communities in Judea and Samaria and their residents."

Activists on the ground report that the police have formed a new unit to deal exclusively with evacuations in Judea and Samaria. The force, which is composed of Border Guard police officers, regular police officers, elite police forces, and mounted units, recently trained for evacuation scenarios in the IDF Adam facility near Modi'in.

"The police are planning on starting with these 11 small sites in existing communities and then moving on to bigger evacuations," said Akiva HaCohen, a Samaria activist. "This new unit has nothing to do with defense and nothing to do with terror. It was created exclusively to destroy Jewish sites in Judea and Samaria."

MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) condemned the police's decision to destroy structures in Judea and Samaria. "The police should focus first on the thousands of illegal Arab structures in the Negev and the Galilee," he said on Army Radio. "I call on every family in Judea and Samaria to have another child this year," he said, "and in 50 years there will be 1,000,000 people in Yesha."

Comments:

SHmuel wrote:

Interesting.
The enemy unJews prepare MORE paramilitary units to assault Jews and JEWS "denounce"?... NUTS!
Simple self defense common sense and why not, military doctrine says that if the enemy prepare plans, weapons and units to attack you, you MUST PREPARE UNITS to defend yourself and WIN!
I know what the pathetic, impotent make believe patriotic morons would say... "But Jews do not attack Jews".
The idiots hear, see and well know that the unJewish enemy is preparing but... no plans for self defense.
Then they wonder why no one gives a flying petunia for us as a people...
I am nearing 69 years of age and cannot do what is needed as a soldier but I have not yet lost my capacity to understand ball less wonders.

Yaakov countered:

SHmuel is so wrong. Even now, the courageous patriots are preparing for the onslaught, writing new songs of unity to sing while the capos are beating them and bulldozing their buildings. Barak and Obama will be sorry then.


Update:

(IsraelNN.com) Police detective arrived at the Nofei Yarden settlement in Binyamin’s Gush Shiloh area early Sunday afternoon and attacked several girls. According to a report by Arutz 7 (Hebrew), the police entered a building on site with several girls inside and demanded to see their indentifications.

The girls argued that it was illegal for the police to enter without a permit. The police responded by beginning to strike the girls and warn them that they would “break their backs” if they returned

UPDATE:

Israeli government asking SETTLER LEADERS TO ACT AS KAPOS

Police ask Samaria Council to demolish own illegal structures
Jul. 12, 2009
Yaakov Lappin , THE JERUSALEM POST

Judea and Samaria Police issued a request on Sunday to the Samaria Regional Council to demolish 11 illegal structures in its territory on its own accord, to prevent a future confrontation with security forces, a police spokesman said.

In recent months, Israel has come under strong American pressure to freeze all construction work in existing settlements. The structures referred to in the police's notice are located in established settlements such as Itamar and Itzhar.

The move has been slammed by a representative of the Samaria Regional Council as an example of politically-motivated and partial enforcement of planning laws, designed to target settlements.

"Every month, the civil administration issues demolition orders against illegal structures to local authorities and police. To avoid friction, we have passed on the document to the Samaria Regional Council in the hope that future use of force and incidents can be avoided," said Judea and Samaria Police Spokesman Danny Poleg.

Poleg said that if the Samaria Regional Council "takes care" of the illegal structures on its own, unpleasant scenes which could unfold when the army and police move in to demolish the structure could be avoided.

"It [the demolition] will happen in any case, but we hope the council deals with this on its own," Poleg said.

But David Ha'ivri, Director of the Shomron Liaison Office, accused Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the government of employing double standards regarding construction within settlements.

"The law is being enforced only against unregulated Jewish building. Across Judea and Samaria, as well as on the western side of the Green Line, there are thousands of illegal building sites that are not being subject to the law," Ha'ivri said.

"We are seeing partial enforcement against Jews in Judea and Samaria again and again," he added.

"We hope Defense Minister Ehud Barak will stop going back on previous agreements, and will also allow Jews to build on the Land of Israel," Ha'ivri said.

Ha'ivri denied that settlers were building on property that belonged to others, arguing that "this construction could be regulated if the defense minister could approve building plans."

He said construction work in towns like Beit She'an and Beit Shemesh, on the western side the Green Line, "didn't have final building plans approved, but construction went ahead anyway, and the plans were rightly approved eventually. The same should happen here, too. We should be allowed to breathe."

THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX, Part II: an excellent VIDEO.

Sent by Jack. Thank you.

Make sure to also read the posts:

MAJOR BOMBSHELL, PART II and

WATER WARS NOT LIMITED TO ISRAEL...

And see this website:

http://www.energyadvocate.com/ ( copy and paste), also sent by Jack.


And where is OBAMA on all of this?

Read the news TODAY:

Cabinet Members Push Climate Bill on the Hill

Washington Post
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 3:15 PM

A quartet of Obama administration officials launched a new effort to sell landmark climate change legislation on Capitol Hill, telling a Senate committee today that the goal was not limited to simply curbing greenhouse gases but also to creating a boom in alternative energy jobs.

Update:

Meanwhile in Aquila, the G8....

PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE INDIAN PM SAYS: THE ONLY HONEST ONE IN THE WHOLE BUNCH, IT SEEMS - unless the other honest ones simply stayed silent....

Water wars not limited to Israel: here too, government PURPOSELY driving American farmers out of business. Also typical extreme-left idiocy: wildlife before people. Considering that global warming is a hoax, draw your own conclusions...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drought6-2009jul06,0,3172131.story

AND, SPEAKING OF THE DEVIL - literally!-

Oxfam to G-8: Climate change will spread hunger
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 52 mins ago

AMSTERDAM – Chronic hunger may be "the defining human tragedy of this century," as climate change causes growing seasons to shift, crops to fail, and storms and droughts to ravage fields, an advocacy group said.

Oxfam International released a report Monday as leaders of the Group of Eight wealthiest nations prepare to meet in Italy this week, with an agenda to include both food security and climate change.

It says that as the weather changes, millions of people in areas suffering food scarcity will have to give up traditional crops, possibly leading to social upheavals such as mass migrations and possible conflict over water resources.

Rich countries in temperate climate zones, such as northern Europe and parts of the United States, will benefit from warmer weather and more rainfall, but far more people in hotter, poorer countries will face more erratic and expensive food supplies, said the British-based nonprofit group.

The report, "What Happened to the Seasons?" was meant to add urgency to the G-8 meeting and to a broader group of 17 countries, the Major Economies Forum, which convenes later in the week to try to unblock negotiations on a new climate change agreement due to be completed in December.

Oxfam said it prepared a study for the Institute of Development Studies by surveying farmers around the world, who report that changing seasonal patterns were already affecting their ability to plan the sowing and harvesting of crops. The results, it said, were "strikingly consistent across entire geographies."


{DS: Is THE ABOVE STORY an example of CHANGING SEASONAL PATTERNS AFFECTING ... CROPS? HOW ABOUT, RATHER, CRASS HUMAN, i.e. GOVERNMENT, INTERVENTION?}

Farmers have begun changing their crops in the tropics, where a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) temperature shift can make traditional crops unsustainable. Unpredictable rainfall makes their choices of new crops a gamble, the report said.

Among the worst hit are nations that grow rice, the world's most common food. Yields are predicted to drop an average 10 percent for every 1 degree C rise in temperature in countries like the Philippines, where production could fall 50-70 percent as early as 2020. At the same time, China will grow more rice as the area of warm temperatures spreads, it said.

Corn is another staple that will be widely affected by climate change since it is particularly vulnerable to water stress, it said. Corn is the main source of food for 250 million people in east Africa and is used as animal feed around the world.

Negotiators at U.N. climate talks have been tasked with setting up an adaptation fund to help poor countries deal with the affects of climate change. U.N. estimates suggest as much as $200 billion a year may be needed by 2030 for developing water resources in increasingly arid regions, shifting agriculture to more suitable crops, building sea walls to protect coastal cities from rising sea levels and helping fishermen whose stocks would be affected by acidification of the ocean.

The Oxfam report said steps can be taken to bolster the world's food supply.

"The world's agricultural potential is less than 60 percent exploited: there is still enough land to feed everyone, even with population levels at the 9.2 billion currently predicted by the United Nations for 2050," it said. Modern agricultural methods, irrigation and fertilizers could dramatically lift yields.


NB: Oxfam has a clear agenda, and it is totally connected to G8, so anything coming out of them is HIGHLY SUSPECT.

http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/g8-2009/action-needed-climate-change (copy and paste)

Re: so THIS IS who is behind our CHRONIC WATER SHORTAGE; AGAIN, THE SLIME, ENEMY OF THE JEWS, TRAITOR SHIMON PERES, AND HIS INTERNATIONAL BUDDIES! IF not for G-D's RAIN, where would we be?????

More on the topic; SO THIS IS THE PLAN! LOOK WITH YOUR OWN EYES, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE???

  PERES THE ARCH-ENEMY IS IT!!!

http://www.peres-center.org/ItemImages/4587/E-Bulletin%20may%202008.pdf

Unbelievable... or should I say, BELIEVABLE, knowing Israelis: robbing Jews of their most precious commodity, water, to literally shower the Arabs with it... and letting them steal even more huge amounts; who will do something about it????

Mekorot: We Are Giving PA More Water Than Required

28 Sivan 5768, 01 July 08 05:46

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(IsraelNN.com) Israel's water company, Mekorot, denied on Tuesday allegations made by Arab rights group B'Tselem that Israel is creating a severe water shortage in Judea and Samaria through a discriminatory policy. Mekorot added that despite water cutbacks and severe shortage in Israel, the water supply to Judea and Samaria had even increased.
The company said it provided 500 million cubic meters per year, or 30 percent more than required under the Oslo agreement. The company also accused Arab water thieves of stealing up to 50 percent of the supply in Bethlehem, Hevron and other areas.