3 atmosphere-related news items

1. There is a cool new feature on the Israel Meteorological Service website - RAIN RADAR.

2. Here is a snippet from a piece in IsraelNationalNews:

Labor Minister Ami Ayalon told the Labor party's central committee Sunday night that the party "fell asleep on its watch" in the lead-up to the Annapolis conference and allowed the political right to create an atmosphere that is preventing the conference from succeeding.

The word "atmosphere" is in bold because I think it is interesting that we are not just talking about political moves here. Yes, political moves were made but Ayalon hits it on the head when he says that it's the atmosphere that counts.

The things Israel needs to be doing do not necessarily require genius-level leadership. They simply require that people think straight. That is all! One does not need to be a genius, or even a hawk, to know that Abbas and friends are thugs and that any more territorial concessions will be suicidal. It's just that the atmosphere has been so crazy and distracting that people have not been able to think straight.

3. Cloud wave over Iowa.