31.12.2011 05.Tewet. 5772 Wajigasch
Vorschau auf 2012:
From elections to the situation in Iran and Syria and the state of the ecomony, the ‘Post’ makes its predictions for 2012.
The Talmud says in the name of Rabbi Yohanan that when the Temple was destroyed, prophecy was taken from the prophets and given over to fools and young children.
Yet ahead of 2011, those attempting to predict the year’s events could have made logical guesses that Gilad Schalit would come home in a prisoner exchange, that Steve Jobs would lose his battle with cancer and that Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi would be killed….
The Middle East is an especially hard place to be a prognosticator. Nevertheless, despite the overwhelming risk of looking extremely foolish throughout the year ahead, the following are 12 predictions for 2012 from the crystal ball of The Jerusalem Post….