Starlink now available in IsraelAfter a year of regulatory paperwork, the Israel government has finally allowed SpaceX to offer Starlink to customers in Israel proper, but not in the West Bank or Gaza.
The company received an operating license from the Communications Ministry last year, following lengthy negotiations and regulatory procedures, but its launch was delayed until now. The restriction on coverage in the West Bank and Gaza is likely due to security concerns over potential use by hostile actors.
Expect the usual leftist anti-Semites to accuse Israel of bigotry for excluding access to Palestinians, but until those Palestinians show some willingness to live with Israel in peace (something they so far show no signs in doing, especially in Gaza), this policy makes perfect sense.
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After a year of regulatory paperwork, the Israel government has finally allowed SpaceX to offer Starlink to customers in Israel proper, but not in the West Bank or Gaza.
The company received an operating license from the Communications Ministry last year, following lengthy negotiations and regulatory procedures, but its launch was delayed until now. The restriction on coverage in the West Bank and Gaza is likely due to security concerns over potential use by hostile actors.
Expect the usual leftist anti-Semites to accuse Israel of bigotry for excluding access to Palestinians, but until those Palestinians show some willingness to live with Israel in peace (something they so far show no signs in doing, especially in Gaza), this policy makes perfect sense.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I’m sure I am going to get plenty of “feedback” from this comment, but I feel it has to be said.
I have very many problems with the actions of the Israeli government recently. We don’t need to go there… I know the viewpoint of our host and most of the posters here. However, I am absolutely not antisemitic.. I believe everyone has the right to worship how they want, indeed I have more problems with Islam than any other religion. But if I criticize the political situation in Israel I immediately get labeled antisemitic. Not just on here, but almost everywhere I interact with. There are questions to be asked about Netanyahu and the charged pending, and how prolonging the war in Gaza is keeping him out of court… I cannot ask these questions without being called an anti-Semite. Also, if I express some sympathy for the civilian casualties in Gaza I am an anti-Semite.
As I have stated many times, I absolutely believe in free speech, but it seems any discussion regarding Israel has been “cancelled”. Try and you are anti-Semitic. How do we address this problem, and allow free discussion without unwarranted claims of “whatever”ism?
I hope there is an answer, but it’s hard to see from where I am sitting.
Lee S: People think you are anti-Semitic because of your blind belief in the many anti-Israeli slanders, propaganda and lies that have been pushed for years by Hamas, the left, and others. And when I and others try to educate you to these lies, you seem unable to absorb that information.
I explain this knowing it will do no good, as you will deny its truth. That everyone sees you in this way however should provide you a clue as its correctness.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
Bob…… You just exactly proved my point. I have no problems with Jews, I have no problems with Israel’s right to exist in safety, I do have problems with some of the actions of the mostly far right factions over there… But they are mostly political points… I also have problems with Netanyahu and his trying his hardest to stay out of court, and yes I have many problems with the state of the conflict with Palestine right now. I don’t consider Israel’s response to the horrendous attack on innocents to be proportional or measured. Hamas need to be eliminated, but by completely flattening someone’s home you are just breeding more hate.
The Bosnian Croatian conflict called genocide when 6000 civilians were murded… By best estimates 40,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza… It is disingenuous to call the women and children Hamas. And despite Israeli propaganda, it is proved that they are restricting the influx of aid to the point where the population are starving, and aid distribution points have become killing fields.
I don’t expect to change your mind either Bob, but I have read your essays, your replies to my comments and even a book ;-) but my opinion on this matter remains the same. I am absolutely not an anti-Semite, and because I disagree with Israeli politics I don’t deserve to be called one. I am 100% anti Hamas, but I genuinely don’t think Israel is on the right track to create lasting peace. Jaw jaw not war war.
Lee–
Pro-tip:
Never start anything with the phrase “I’m not [X], but….”
At wayne…. I’m not going to disagree with you but…. Thanks for bringing some humor to what will probably pan out to be a long and involved subject…. Much appreciated!!!!
@wayne…
I thought I had left a response… But it seems to have vanished… If it doesn’t reappear…can I just say.. I’m not saying I’m right… But…. Doh!
” I am 100% anti Hamas, but I genuinely don’t think Israel is on the right track to create lasting peace. Jaw jaw not war war.”
Sometimes “Jaw Jaw” only plays into an enemy’s strategy to continue their war.
Sometimes when all the useless talking is done extreme measures have to be taken in order for there to be actual peace.
So, when anyone proposes that an enemy’s strategy must be accepted and embraced over and over again when everyone can see and understand the strategy taking place, then you in fact and in deed fully support them and their war.
Let’s not confuse weakness and appeasement with virtue, morality and the good.
This is the fundamental problem with the thinking on the Liberal and the Left side of the equation.
HAMAS has murdered, raped, decapitated and taken hostages knowing that those on the Left will be weak and will pander and will serve HAMAS.
HAMAS is desperate, but they are not stupid.
The ONLY solution?
HAMAS is eliminated and banned one way or another and the people of GAZA rebuild their situation and live under the protection of Isarel.
In addition, as I have proposed before:
The people of GAZA are for all intents and purposes a conquered people.
A conquered people as history will confirm without question, a conquered people either assimilate or……………….
But our “Civilized” Liberal and now Leftist and Globalists of the world who propose that they are the final moral and virtuous authority on all such things have become the biggest promoters of murder, rape, decapitation and hostage taking.
I strongly suspect that Trump will have a great deal to say about what will become of HAMAS and the GAZENS and the solution will tend to be along the lines that I have laid out.
Lee S,
You wrote: “Bob…… You just exactly proved my point,” which proved Robert’s point.
“How do we address this problem, and allow free discussion without unwarranted claims of “whatever”ism?”
Robert pointed out that we cannot discuss these topics with you, and you proved him right. There is no addressing this problem with you without you getting defensive. Even pointing out this problem makes you defensive. In fact, you couldn’t even ask the question without your first sentence being defensive.
Hamas does what it does, because people like you are willing to take their word for what happened and then are willing to criticize Israel for “Israel’s response to the horrendous attack on innocents [not being] proportional or measured.” You place blame on Israel and Netanyahu, but far more horrific attacks on innocent Israelis and Americans and anyone else in the terror zone don’t get the same response from you.
The next time Hamas or any Muslim group performs horrendous attacks, it is because people like you did their bidding: being far more intolerant of their victims than of Hamas.
Hamas has fooled you into advocating for them, and you have no idea that you have been fooled or even that you are the advocate. This is why your mind cannot be changed. The rest of us see it clearly, but all you see is Hamas’s complaints that they are losing, phrased as unfairness.
Hamas need to be eliminated, but by completely flattening someone’s home you are just breeding more hate.. Hatred that is bred into you by the action of eliminating Hamas.
And we cannot even discuss your points and questions with you, because you will once again become defensive.
But I am stupid and gullible, so here goes:
“By best estimates 40,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza…”
By best estimates 50,000 Americans were killed in Viet Nam. Was that a genocide?
Killing 40,000 terrorist supporters is not a genocide, it is a start. Weak, to be sure, but a start nonetheless.
“Jaw jaw not war war.”
Israel gave peace a chance, even giving Gaza back to the undeserving terrorist population, and all it got them was October 7 and complaints from people like you. As we have seen, even Hamas, Palestinians, and Muslims in general do not believe peace is the answer. They don’t believe talking is the answer. All that is left is war or capitulation, and you and people like you have helped drive everything into that direction. Now you complains about the consequences of your own actions and of your own words.
I would have thought Israel would have had Starlink already.
South Africa likely helped Israel with the Bomb, what with the Vela event–unless that had a cosmological source.
I don’t know if rank and file Afrikaners at large were anti-Semites.