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To: Scumbria who wrote (43916)	12/23/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 1574050

re: Historical View of Israel versus Dresden as Fab Site Historically, Dresden is exposed to heavy air raid damage. Not a single fab survived World War II in Dresden. Dresden is periodically invaded by French and Russians who uproot and steal entire factories. There is no convincing proof that the AMD CEO's alleged German sympathies are the cause of that location decision, but the Saxon state "inducements" are clearly responsible. What is now Israel was last successfully invaded by the British who mostly stole horses and authorized a Jewish national homeland. No fab in Israel has ever been completely destroyed by terroristic action. There is no evidence that Intel's Israel location decisions were influenced by the former CEO's alleged Jewish ancestry, but Israel state "inducements" are clearly responsible. Israel is subject to invasion by American tourists, who only buy really bad overpriced pseudo-religious art and stolen overpriced illegal fake ancient religious document fragments, but these purchases are uniformly beneficial to the Israeli economy, since the supply of these objects is perfectly elastic. The U.S. and Israel have a free trade agreement, while Germany is still boycotting our culturally critical Dole and Chiquita bananas. Viewed in an historical context, Israel looks much safer and politically and economically more palatable than Dresden as a site for a semiconductor fab. By the way, Kurlak says that there are no people in fabs, so labor supply doesn't matter any more.