This past week was full of the usual: Double standards being applied to cast Israel as a vicious, law-breaking state and more threats from Iran to an already besieged country.Yesterday, there were two bits of encouraging news.First, at almost the very place where the flotilla of thugs and useful idiots were engaged by the Israelis (well within its territorial waters) there has been a major gas find which should meet its critical energy needs.... a gigantic deposit of natural gas called Leviathan, 6.5 times the size of Tel Aviv, was found, roughly 100 nautical miles from where the flotilla fiasco took place and well within Israel's extended territorial waters. This discovery may provide Israel with security in terms of its supply of electricity, turn it into an important natural gas exporter and provide a shot in the arm of some $300 billion over the life of the field - one-and-a-half times the national GDP - to the Israeli economy, already one of the most resilient in the...(Read Full Post)