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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14060)	7/14/2006 12:46:39 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

I dont disagree that the arabs have some valid claims, but as brothers in Ishmael, they need to be more accomodating. here is an example of the difference in the people of Jacob and Esau: ---------------------------------------------------------------- I just read your piece on retailing in Israel. I returned from a trip to Israel a week ago, and would argue that it was not scary traveling about (and this was during the time when the two soldiers and teenage hitchhiker were killed, and the other soldier kidnapped). Also, most of the restaurants in Israel are NOT kosher. In fact, only one McDonald's in Israel is kosher; my family ate lunch there - it's in a strip mall in Beit Hashemesh. Also interesting to note is the fact that Donald Trump has announced plans to build a Tel Aviv tower that would be Israel’s tallest. The 70-story Trump Tower Israel, slated to go up across from the Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, will be mainly residential. Media reports said Trump paid $44 million for a building currently on the site where the tower will be erected. Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can make claim to the following (among many others Moderator's note: I edited the list to show those that relate to technology or etailing): BUSINESS: o In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech). o Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship - and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world. o Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US. o On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups. TECHNOLOGY: o Bill Gates called Israel a major player in the high tech world. o Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology was pioneered in Israel. o Intel's new multi-core processor was completely developed at its facilities in Israel. o AirTrain JFK - the 8.1-mile light rail labrynthe that connects JFK Airport to New York City's mass transit - is protected by the Israeli-developed Nextiva surveillance system. o Israel has designed the first flight system to protect passenger and freighter aircraft against missile attack. o According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. U.S. officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats. o Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita. o Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel. o The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. o The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel. o Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. o Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel. o The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis. o The first PC anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979. o An Israeli company is providing the technology behind an American all-electric bus for urban use. o An Israeli company has developed a new device for monitoring coronary disease that will be integrated into future generation of cellphones. o Israel hosts IBM's largest R&D facilities outside the United States. o Israel engineers are behind the development of the largest communications router in the world, launched by Cisco. o Intel has sold more than $5 billion worth of the Israeli-developed Centrino chipsets since they were introduced in March 2003. WORKFORCE: o Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world. o Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12 percent hold advanced degrees. o Prof. Robert Aumann is the fourth Israeli in the last four years to win a Nobel prize. o Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one of the highest percapita rates of patents filed. o Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK. o Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined. o Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books. o With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley). o Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well. For more facts and articles about Israel, visit www.israel21c.org.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14060)	7/15/2006 10:38:52 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

=== "It is all war..since the Zionist invasion of Palestine in the early 1940s." === Your racist allegation that Jews don't have a right to live in the Middle East, just parrots Arab propaganda. One of the most popular propagandas, parroted over and over again by mindless racists, is to deny that Jews have lived throughout the Middle East, and throughout Palestine for thousands of years. The Arab/Muslim world is driving ALL Christians and Jews out of the Middle East. If Israel's Christians and Jews can be destroyed, or driven out, the next Arab/Muslim target will probably be "Hindu" India. If you get your way, all intelligent, talented people will be driven from this world, which, in your illogical mind, would probably make you appear smarter than you are.