Good video, thanks.

Here's hoping!  Happy new year!

Wow, it's a buy time!

A good article is out about the company today:
Publicly Traded Tech Startup With Highly Positively Skewed Risk-Reward Ratio

A good article is out about the company today:
Publicly Traded Tech Startup With Highly Positively Skewed Risk-Reward Ratio

He can't talk to mark it down unless he actually says he's gonna raise rates or continue to do so. I think the horses out of the barn.

Enjoyed this article, but yours is in Russian. Can you post it on this site in English?

Good read, thanks.

And this one: I have some sympathy with Ben-Ami's desire to find a solution for a difficult and heart-wrenching problem. But his solutions are frequently naive or just demonstrably wrong. Some examples:
- In an attempt to refute an assertion of Avigdor Lieberman's, Ben-Ami states that "In fact, the history of Jewish/non-Jewish relations in the land of Palestine, and throughout Arab and Muslim lands, was fairly positive." Norman Stillman in his work "The Jews of Arab Lands", presents the history of the dhimmi laws throughout the Middle East as applied to Jews, and while sometimes benign, it frequently was used to humiliate and repress Jews including forcing them to walk barefoot in Muslim cities. Yemenite Jews were oppressed for centuries.
- The assertion that innocent, naive U.S. politicians are forced into compliance with AIPAC is strange at best. Politicians as victims? Let's get real. And the N.R.A. doesn't use far worse tactics? For someone who was so intimately involved in the Dean campaign, Ben-Ami seems rather thin-skinned.
- The "vocal 8%" argument seems strange for someone who grew up in the Zionist world. Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, the Reform and much of the Orthodox world opposed Zionism. Things in this world are usually done by those who want to get involved.
- For someone who wishes to be accepted by the Jewish mainstream, Ben-Ami's implication that the "vocal 8%" are mostly Orthodox has more than a touch of bigotry. Holding on to captured territory is not a tenet of Orthodox Judaism. As well as ultra-Nationalists there are also anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews. The Orthodox Jewish world has a range of views as does the rest of the Jewish world. Ben-Ami dismissal of the Orthodox seems narrow at best.
- The concept that underlies much of Ben-Ami's view, and I assume J Street's as well, that President Obama has a better understanding of Israel's security needs than it's democratically elected officials, many of whom are drawn from its military is troubling. Rabin faced a very different world than the current post Arab Spring environment and the Israeli electorate and government have evolved accordingly.

Israel's Left has much to bring to the debate in that country and their American followers have much to bring to the table within the American Jewish community. Unfortunately, Ben-Ami does a poor job expressing their views in this book.

And this one:  There are two major failings in this book

(1)It does not make any argument at all to support the idea that Isreal has the ability to make peace with the Palestinian.

After writing the counter-argument that Isreal has tried repeatedly over a twenty year period to give back the West Bank to the Palestinians and not only not received peace in exchange, there was usually there was an increase in terrorism after such offers, he still asks "why can't they do it?"

(2)He offers zero evidence for J Street's claim that they represent anyone let alone the majority of American Jews.