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Miracle #1: If you haven't heard by now, Israel has its own mermaid. Seen frolicking in the Haifa Bay, tourism officials have offered a $1 million prize booty for solid proof she exists. Causing a boom in tourism in the town of Kiryat Yam near Haifa, people are flocking to the shores after world media reports say the half-human half-fish mermaid likes to frolic in the sea.
My theory is that 'she' is probably a disfigured dolphin or baby whale who's strayed too close to the Mediterranean shore. Given the immense amount of pollution lingering from industry and the port at Haifa, it's very likely that the animals in the bay have been affected.
Miracle #2: A company I've been following for a few months called the Z5 has created a gas saving retrofit for your car. After writing my first story on the company for ISRAEL21c, wanted to see with my very own eyes if it works. Taking oil industry critic Gal Luft with me, we saw emissions tests before and after, as well as power tests. When installed correctly the Z5 seems to work, at least for reducing emissions and giving more thrust. You can read the report I wrote about the day here. It also links to garage tests in French. We are still waiting for fuel efficiency tests to come in.
Devised by a 16-year-old Zion Badash and his dad Moshe, Moshe says that they can't explain how the Z5 works, just that it does. It somehow changes the air molecules, before the air enters the air filter making combustion more effective. The company is currently working on getting third-party tests done in the US to enter the market there. With a money-back guarantee (minus S&H) this is a 'miracle' device that's worth taking a chance on. Just don't take the company's advice by trying to install it yourself. Based on what I saw out at the garage, you need a mechanic who knows what he's doing.
Miracle #3: The third miracle to hit the Holy Land recently, is a new sewage peace pipe being smoked by Gazans and Israelis. In the works for years now, Israeli and Palestinian reps were at a UN meeting in Brazil in July signing the deal and working out logistics. The plan is to clean up Gaza's terrible sewage problem once and for all. With no infrastructure, lakes of raw sewage are collecting on land, and are spewing into the sea.
Terms of the peace deal are that Israel will provide blueprints for a Gaza City sewage plant, and Israeli experts will oversee development. Meanwhile both sides will look for funding the multi-million dollar project. All Gaza has to do is to agree. What does Israel get from the deal? For one, cleaner beaches and water on the Israeli side, and a more prosperous Gaza is better for regional development overall (read the whole story on ISREAL21c). One problem is that Hamas, reports my contacts in the city of Ashkelon, didn't let the Gaza mayor out to participate in the UN meeting in Brazil. So maybe this miracle, like Israel's mermaid and the Z5, has to be seen to be believed.
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I think I will wait for the independent testing on that.
Thanks for the sardonic piece.
How dare they!
But...but....Palestinians....
We'll be impressed when Israel stops dumping raw sewage and toxic waste on the Palestinians. The average Israeli uses /five times/ as much water as the average Palestinian and Israel has caused millions of dollars of ecological damage, not just with their illegal settlement program and their reckless profiteering economy, but with their aggressive military campaigns against civilian infrastructure in Lebanon and Gaza.
See http://mapsomething.com/demo/waterusage/hydrology.php for some good info.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/06/29/gaza_power_plant_hit_by_israeli_airstrike_is_insured_by_us_agency/
Or how about the destruction of the American International School in Gaza, which the IDF also targeted?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1081048.html
http://www.aisgaza.com/
results in no hits from major corporate media. Must be a fluke.
We can deduct it from the bill for damages owed by Israel. That still leaves Israel many, many million in the red.
We'd like to, but whenever the Security Council tries to punish Israel our own government vetoes enforcement of international law.
The /real/ miracle would be humanitarian ships crossing international waters without being subject to be Israeli piracy.
Query:
You think /that/ might help Israel's tourism? Not attacking vessels full of civilians?
Cynthia McKinney is twice the American /you'll/ ever hope to be, I suspect.
I would be very, very skeptical of the Z5 until somebody like Car and Driver or Consumer Reports did a test of it.
Ooops I forgot, Hamas did that and everyone knows Arabs are never responsible for anything they do
12,000 rockets fired over the course of 8 years. 18 Israelis (civilians /or/ soldiers) die.
Thousands of tons of bombs (the IDF refuses to account for its operation in specifics) dropped on civilian targets over the course of three weeks. Over 1,300 Palestinian civilian. die
Query:
Who is committing the war crimes?
All natanyahu's statement did was turn tourists off from coming to the holy land en mass - while tourism is thriving in lebanon this summer.
Own goal? Yes indeedee!
As for miracle number 2 and 3.... well, here folks is the definition of the word 'miracle' - you can make your minds up for yourselves if they qualify or not:
Miracle: An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God.
If you ask me, this article is yet another attempt to make the land of izzieland and its people 'appear' closer to 'god' than the rest of us.
They are desperate for positive PR - especially after Gaza and their media-offensive against our good and fair-minded President Obama.
Nice try friend of izzland.