South Africa boosts coal exports to Israel after Colombia ban | Reuters
  • 138 points Decent_Island_6135

    Amazing. I wonder if Colombia is going to start trading again with Israel now that South Africa demonstrated that either they don’t believe their own claims against Israel or that it doesn’t matter

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    70 points _Leegion_

    Colombia has elections next year and the far left government is incredibly unpopular, so most likely trade with Israel will be restored after that election.

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    4 points nhytgbvfeco

    Well, Colombia doesn’t allow re-election of president, so there’s definitely going to be a new president. Whether he’s left wing or right wing remains to be seen.

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    8 points _Leegion_

    There is no way the left wins the next election after the way Petro governed. The left lost a lot of support because of his policies.

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    3 points nhytgbvfeco

    I recommend looking at polls. The candidate from Petro's party (far-left) is tied for first place with a centrist both with 24%, while a right wing candidate is third at 17%.

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    6 points _Leegion_

    I recommend ignoring polls, because they are often wrong. For example, in Bolivia's recent elections, Paz was in 3rd place in the polls, and he ended up winning.

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    1 points nhytgbvfeco

    So because polls in Bolivia were inaccurate we should ignore them in Colombia..? Should we ignore polls in France because the polls in Turkey were wrong?

    Those are different countries that don't even border each other.

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    1 points planesarecool58

    Colombia has a run-off, so the centrist or right wing candidate's voters will likely support each other when the second round happens.

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  • 105 points _Leegion_

    Antisemites hate Jews but love Jewish money.

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    41 points b0bsledder

    With those South Africans it’s all about the Benjamins.

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    22 points Daniels30

    A tale older than time

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    8 points CholentSoup

    I'm fine with this. I don't need to be loved, just take our money and deal with it.

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    3 points Ace2Face

    They love our blood too

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    1 points CholentSoup

    Yeah but it's been harder to get hold of these days.

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    1 points Dry-Season-522

    And Israeli defense technologies.

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  • 25 points Wandering-desert

    What in the plot twist is going on here?

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    16 points KS-Wolf-1978

    Reality. :)

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  • 25 points withoutbitcoin

    South africa sells coal to israel while accusing israel of comitting Genocide?

    I guess they dont really care either way

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  • 21 points No-Independence828

    Why do we buy coal and export gas?

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    7 points RecordEnvironmental4

    I assume because there are existing coal power plants and not enough existing gas power plants

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    7 points Ace2Face

    Why do we even need this crap when can have solar with our 300 sunny days a year on average?

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  • 14 points loginisverybroken

    Absolutely hilarious

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  • 18 points what_a_r

    Why is Israel importing coal?

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    10 points AstroKoen

    Space lasers require large amount of energy

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    13 points Mylifemess

    Because Hadera power station generates most of our electricity. And we don’t have coal in our tiny country.

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    3 points CholentSoup

    Coal is still the most available and affordable power generating resource.

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    1 points dotancohen

    Coal is more available than sunlight in Israel?

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    2 points CholentSoup

    Coal doesn't rain.

    But to be serious, the think holding back the power revolution is not generation. It's storage. We can generate unlimited power but have nowhere to store it. Coal, gas, and to a degree nuclear all are energy dense things that are the storage in itself. For all our tech now how we still haven't matched the sheer energy potential stored in a tank of diesel.

    It'll happen, some crazy battery revolution, the LiOn got us somewhat there for small devices. But until we can match what the dirty stuff does we're stuck with it.

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  • 3 points bakochba

    Why are we buying from. South Africa, are we stupid?

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  • 4 points Jdog2552

    Why don't we invest in solar? The Negev is just begging to be turned into an energy hub. Israel is small enough that covering significant areas of the Negev aren't unfeasible.

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  • 1 points EveryConnection

    South Africa 4D chess'd their competition into withdrawing and is reaping the gains.

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  • 1 points virus_apparatus

    It was all for show. All of it. All of them. They might badmouth us but they will still deal behind closed doors

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