Let’s take a Middle East quiz. Name a major medical breakthrough generated in a Middle Eastern nation other than Israel? Got to think about that one? Let’s narrow it down. Name a Middle Eastern nation that has produced extraordinary technological breakthroughs that power and operate millions of computers?
Despite its small size, Israelis working in Motorola’s largest research and development center came up with the basic elements of the modern cell phone. At Microsoft-Israel, Israelis developed most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems. And the Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at the Intel operation there. In fact, both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only research and development facilities outside of the United States in Israel. Wouldn’t it be a shame if a Hezbollah or Iranian missile destroyed them?
It should come as no surprise that Israel has the highest percentage of home computers per capita or that Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population of any nation in the world. Israel, in fact, produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation, about 109 per 10,000 people, and has one of the highest per capital rates of patents filed.
Apart from the Silicon Valley in the U.S.A., Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world with more than 3,000, not including the highest rate of start-up companies, so there are probably more as this is being written.
These are the same people that Hezbollah and Hamas have promised to kill, but let’s be fair to the Arabs, they have led the world in suicide bombers and the development of Improvised Explosive Devices. They excel at fighting wars without putting on uniforms and hiding among civilians.
By comparison with any other Middle Eastern nation, Israel has the highest average living standards with a per capita income in 2000 that exceeded the United Kingdom. Compared with the rest of the world, it has the third highest rate of entrepreneurs and the highest rate among women and people over 55.
This is the nation that Iran’s president wants to “wipe off the map.”
Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, non-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer. An Israeli company developed a computerized system to ensure the proper administration of medications, removing human error from medical treatment in hospitals that use the system.
It has done all this while fighting the wars perpetrated against it by its Arab “neighbors” since the day it declared its independence in 1948. It has done this while being under constant attack for years from Lebanon that flared yet again into another full-scale war and while enduring the Intifada by the PLO followed by continued rocketing by Hamas from what is now called the Palestine territory.
Ironically, the Middle East that has been growing date palms for centuries has never been able to come up with a tree that yields more than about 38 pounds a year. They usually grow 18 to 20 feet tall. In Israel, however, comparable date palms yield about 400 pounds annually and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or from a small ladder.
When the Israelis withdrew from the Gaza strip (in 2005), they left behind greenhouses that had employed hundreds of Palestinians and produced an abundance of foods. The greenhouses were destroyed within days. Meanwhile Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization are at each other’s throats.
After 18 years of occupation, the Israelis withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. Hezbollah used the following six years to build bunkers and stockpile weapons. The rocketing of Israel never stopped.
Last question. If you had to move to any nation in the Middle East, which one would you choose?
We are told we are involved in a clash of civilizations between the developed West and the tyranny, poverty, and backwardness of the Middle Eastern version of Islam. To grasp what that means, review the facts stated above and then project a future for this nation and others if the Islamic Revolution succeeds in conquering Europe and the United Kingdom?
Think about life in America if it succeeds.Then, maybe, you will understand why America has always striven to support Israel.
I know Israel isn’t perfect, neither is US, just as I support US to exist I will always firmly support Israel’s right to exist, Israel’s right to self-defense, and Israel’s right to live as a free and democratic nation.
in war sometimes friendly forces are attacked by accident, it has happened so many times, it is called fog of war, how many times has it happened in the iraq war? how many times have we done it? we did it to canada forces and we have done it to our own men and it is sad and tragic, why is everything a conspiracy when it comes to jews?
laughable…UN is so bias against israel it is a joke…the UN has even admitted bias i cannot find the sources at the moment
here it is
U.N. Chairman Admits Anti-Israel Bias
In an interview with the Swiss daily Le Temps, published Saturday, U.N. Human Rights Council Chairman Doru Costea admitted that the council has not approached the Israeli-Palestinian conflict evenhandedly.
what weapons are you talking about?
last time i heard no one ever complains about the 3,000 rockets that fall on a daily basis into Israel, are terrrorist attacks not banned?
how about you asked me to name one contribution Israel has done to society and I named about 60 and you ignored my post and just resort to negativity and show your true bias and hatred towards Israel
Some economic indicators are pointing up, so maybe things will start to improve in the near future. The Dow has dropped over 2000 points since election day.
The U.N. is a joke and one of the most corrupt organizations on earth.
As Bill O’Neil from Investors Business Daily says “Don’t try and catch a falling dagger”. I heard people saying 1000 points ago it was a good time to buy.
I’m not sure about U.S. but in Britain some banks look like they could be good investments. RBS shares are now trading between 18-24p, as long as the government does not fully nationalise the bank it looks as though it could be worth while investing.
Policy makers and forecasters who see a recovery next year are probably lying to boost public confidence, he said. And the crisis will eventually provoke political conflict, albeit not on the scale of a world war, but violent all the same.
Niall Ferguson: “There will be blood, in the sense that a crisis of this magnitude is bound to increase political as well as economic [conflict]. It is bound to destabilize some countries. It will cause civil wars to break out, that have been dormant. It will topple governments that were moderate and bring in governments that are extreme. These things are pretty predictable. The question is whether the general destabilization, the return of, if you like, political risk, ultimately leads to something really big in the realm of geopolitics. That seems a less certain outcome. We’ve already talked about why China and the United States are in an embrace they don’t dare end. If Russia is looking for trouble the way Mr. Putin seems to be, I still have some doubt as to whether it can really make this trouble, because of the weakness of the Russian economy. It’s hard to imagine Russia invading Ukraine without weakening its economic plight. They’re desperately trying to prevent the ruble from falling off a cliff. They’re spending all their reserves to prop it up. It’s hardly going to help if they do another Georgia.”
“One possibility is that policy makers are lying in order to encourage people and prevent depression from become a self-fulfilling psychological conditions. That’s why it’s called a depression … Maybe they don’t really believe this, but they’re saying it in order to cheer people up, and if they’re sufficiently consistent, perhaps people will start to believe it, and then it will magically happen.”
“The other way of looking at that is to say every time a politician uses a word like ‘catastrophe’ or ‘depression’ to pressurize legislators into passing a stimulus package, for example, the signal goes out to the public that this is bad. And it gets worse. That’s one of the interesting things that both President Bush and President Obama have done. Bush used that wonderful phrase, “this sucker’s going down.” Obama talks about catastrophe at the critical moment when he wanted Congress to pass the package. It reminds me of a wonderful headline that the Onion had last year, in about October. The headline was, Bush calls for panic. I love it because it completely called the situation. There he was calling for panic … to make people come out of denial. I’ve been talking a while about this being the Great Repression. It took ages, ages, for people to realize this thing had fallen apart.
One of the facts is if you subtract mortgage equity withdrawal from the Bush years, the real underlying rate of growth of the U.S. economy was 1 per cent. So much of the consumption has been fuelled by mortgage equity withdrawal. So that seems like a reasonable growth rate for 10 years. … We just don’t have an improvement of standard of living of the sort we’re grown used to. And indeed if you have a more equitable redistribution through the tax system, which Obama is committed to, it might actually be no discernible downside for middle America and lower-class Americans. So many of the benefits of the boom went to the elites. If you have a lost decade plus redistribution, it may not be that dramatic a change for many, many people. People just have to get over the fact that their wealth wasn’t worth what they thought it was in 2006. Whether it’s their stock market portfolio or their housing. If we simply go back to where we were, in 2005, that’s surely not the worst thing that could happen to us.”
Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren’t paying their taxes.
Hotwheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfeizer and Citigroup.
PETA serves chicken wings at their meetings
McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer
People in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names
A truck of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico
The most highly-paid job is now jury duty
Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting
People in Africa are donating money to Americans
Mothers in Ethiopia are telling their kids, “finish your plate, do you
know how many kids are starving in the US?”
Motel Six won’t leave the light on
The Mafia is laying off judges
And finally..,
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal.
Hey, neat…the guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear.
Well I did hear that the situation in the US is so bad that Obama cut short the G20 summit yesterday for a private audience with the Queen. Apparently, he reckons there was a huge mistake a few hundred years ago and the USA now wants to be part of the British Empire again.
Now whilst we may well take you back under our protective wing, the sticking point is that apparently some Southerners are complaining about being ruled from Ottawa, Canada
