Israel: We will sell our citizens for a quick buck in Singapore
27/02/08 10:28 Filed in: Politics
Last friday Haaretz news paper reveled some
disturbing (although not surprising) news regarding a
defense system being developed in Israel.
Without going too much into politics, the story goes as follows:
The southern town of Sderot is under attack of crude Quassam rockets, launched from the Gaza strip, for the last eight years.
Very recently, the Israeli Department of Defense initiated the development of anti-rocket defense system, known as "The Iron Dome".
The Haaretz article sheds light on the shady decision making process that led to favoring of the 'Iron Dome' upon other, more adequate systems.
The bottom line of that article is, that the 'Iron Dome' is known to be improper for the purpose for which it is presented as a solution, far more expensive and will not be ready for several more years.
So why was it chosen you ask?
in one line, cleverly hidden from the censor, the writer Mr. Reuven Pedhatsour hints that few of the decision makers and \ or advisors to them are also employed as consultants to the government of Singapore, to whom Israel wishes to sell the completed system. In the current political climate in Israel, the decision to develop an inadequate system, falsely marketed to the citizens as adequate, with clandestine plans to monetize it elsewhere at the expanse of Sderot's people, seems like a wise and rational decision, since personal gains are usually the motive to the MP's, PM and the generals.
The people of Sderot have turned to the supreme court on the matter, and probably we will see more, even uglier details emerge as evidence turn in.
Stay tuned as the bad will defiantly turn into ugly
UPDATE:
it was reveled yesterday that RAFAEL, makers of 'the iron dome', will sell a system based on some of the Dome's components to India, Singapore, in a deal worth about 100 million USD. in the mean time, several Gazans were killed by the IDF in strikes against alleged 'terrorist activities' and a kid in Sderot was severely wounded.
I started thinking, what if lots and lots of people started investing in RAFAEL, then crash the stock down? i am not a Wall street kind of guy, but i am sure this can be done.
perhaps some of my readers can come up with a plan? after all, isn't money = power? maybe, as a collective, we, the 'small people' can cause enough instability to really harm such companies? does anyone knows if there are legal implications to such action? this would make a splendid TAZ ( I promise to have a detailed post on the subject of TAZ later on).
-Correction: As far as i could find out, RAFAEL is still Gvmnt. controlled firm, but it is supposed to go public sometime soon, just like Elbit and others did.
I will update you as the Israeli supreme court gives its decision on Sderots citizens claim against the Gvmnt on the subject of 'the iron dome'.
Without going too much into politics, the story goes as follows:
The southern town of Sderot is under attack of crude Quassam rockets, launched from the Gaza strip, for the last eight years.
Very recently, the Israeli Department of Defense initiated the development of anti-rocket defense system, known as "The Iron Dome".
The Haaretz article sheds light on the shady decision making process that led to favoring of the 'Iron Dome' upon other, more adequate systems.
The bottom line of that article is, that the 'Iron Dome' is known to be improper for the purpose for which it is presented as a solution, far more expensive and will not be ready for several more years.
So why was it chosen you ask?
in one line, cleverly hidden from the censor, the writer Mr. Reuven Pedhatsour hints that few of the decision makers and \ or advisors to them are also employed as consultants to the government of Singapore, to whom Israel wishes to sell the completed system. In the current political climate in Israel, the decision to develop an inadequate system, falsely marketed to the citizens as adequate, with clandestine plans to monetize it elsewhere at the expanse of Sderot's people, seems like a wise and rational decision, since personal gains are usually the motive to the MP's, PM and the generals.
The people of Sderot have turned to the supreme court on the matter, and probably we will see more, even uglier details emerge as evidence turn in.
Stay tuned as the bad will defiantly turn into ugly
UPDATE:
it was reveled yesterday that RAFAEL, makers of 'the iron dome', will sell a system based on some of the Dome's components to India, Singapore, in a deal worth about 100 million USD. in the mean time, several Gazans were killed by the IDF in strikes against alleged 'terrorist activities' and a kid in Sderot was severely wounded.
I started thinking, what if lots and lots of people started investing in RAFAEL, then crash the stock down? i am not a Wall street kind of guy, but i am sure this can be done.
perhaps some of my readers can come up with a plan? after all, isn't money = power? maybe, as a collective, we, the 'small people' can cause enough instability to really harm such companies? does anyone knows if there are legal implications to such action? this would make a splendid TAZ ( I promise to have a detailed post on the subject of TAZ later on).
-Correction: As far as i could find out, RAFAEL is still Gvmnt. controlled firm, but it is supposed to go public sometime soon, just like Elbit and others did.
I will update you as the Israeli supreme court gives its decision on Sderots citizens claim against the Gvmnt on the subject of 'the iron dome'.