I like the way Australia’s Jewish community is discussed as if it is a homogenous mass of people with similar interests and common values. A golden age …?

This raises an important corollary of the quote from Philip Mendes which I highlighted, which is that on several of the numerous non-ME issues which he cited Jews are as likely as any other ethno-religious group to have diverse interests and values, and to go their separate ways accordingly on election day. After all, Ian Cohen and John Kaye don’t exactly form a tightly disciplined “Jewish bloc” with Eric Roozendaal in the NSW Upper House.

qv the Dead Sea & Lake Eyre.
It was found that temperatures far in excess of boiling point resulted solely from solar radiation. This could be used either for distillation of a secondary pond of brackish/polluted water or electricity by turbine.
Now where is this country do we have lotsa solar radiation and salt, hmmm…?

In the case of Veolia it’s not their only gig in Australia although it may be their only desalination project.

I have no idea what is meant by this

Then you should keep up with the news a bit more. Two of the the three persons used to illustrate the ads run by a section of business, which suggested that union representation equalled standover tactics and tacit violence, were in fact, convicted crims, and were engaged on the basis that they looked exactly what they were. Naturally, business had already decided to ‘pull’ the ads once this little morsel hit the airwaves. Nice.

Ask your mates why they hired a a convicted s-xual predator and a convicted thug and standover merchant, to enact a piece of phony and disgraceful defamation against people, who leading businesses in this country apparently believe, should not have rights that up to one year and six months ago, they had, and are so determined to prosecute their case, that slander typical of criminal regimes of every ideological persuasion, has been unleashed against every person who is either elected to represent people, and/or the people who elect them, at the workplace.

I have no idea what is meant by this. Was this convicted thug, “s-xual predator”, and standover merchant, also standing on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas in 1963?

Last year I was asked to talk on a panel co-ordinated by Philip Mendes on the topic “The Jews and the Left, can we be friends again”. I expected that everyone would be saying the same thing (quite wrongly as it turned out, the diversity of approaches was remarkable) and spent weeks struggling for a new angle.

My main point was the one you’ve made – that the environmentalist part of the left are actually Israel’s best friends, even though it is seldom recognised, because only the environment movement can save Israel from devastation. However, it occurred to me that there is also something of a balancing argument from the other side – Israel is a world leader in some of the technologies, particularly solar power, that are going to be essential to fighting global warming.

Israel needs the Green movement and, to a lesser extent, the Green movement needs Israel. But you’d never know it from the statements of the people who claim to represent the Jewish community in Australia.