The illegal settlements Isreal has built on Palistinian lands, and its effect (pics)

[WAY TOO COOL TO FART]

ok, good. compare him to hitler then, guys.

[miiiikeee]

I sure don't.

[favrefan]

Nothing except...

1. The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.

2. Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.

3. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.

4. The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.

5. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.

6. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.

7. The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.

8. According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.

9. Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.

10. Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.

11. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.

12. 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 per capita rates of patents filed.

13. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the second largest number of startup companies after the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).

14. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration hi-tech companies in the world — apart from the Silicon Valley, US.

15. Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.

16. After the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.

17. 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.

18. On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups.

19. Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce hold university degrees — ranking it third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland — and 12% hold advanced degrees.


20. Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.

21. In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.


22. When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.


23. When the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day — and saved three victims from the rubble.


24. Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship — and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 — in the world.

25. Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.

26. Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."

27. Israel has the world's second highest per capita rate of publishing new books.

28. Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.

29. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.

30. In the field of medicine, Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.

31. An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in US hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment
mistakes.

32. Israel's Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera
helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.

33. Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.

34. 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 US, over 70 in Japan, and fewer than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.

35. A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct — all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.

36. An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant (in southern California's Mojave desert).

[goodlifez]

So you believe that a governments purpose is to exist not for the people but for itself? The growth of the government and it's power comes before all else including the well being of the people. Governments like this do not last, never have and never will.

[demirocksd.i.s.n.e.y(:]

"On the day following the adoption of the UN resolution seven Jews were killed by Arabs in Palestine in three separate incidents: at 8 o'clock in the morning, in what came to be seen as the opening shots of the 1948 War"

seems like i got it about right.

[seaaannn 27]

hers the bottom line. the area in question was controlled by England and split up after WW2. Israel as well as existing arab states were given parts of this land. the arabs said "fuck that. lets kill the israelis and take their shit too." they got fucked up when they tried. they tried it again a number of times over the years with the same result. now they use their inability to destroy israel as justification for terrorist acts.

[wolisa]

Kim Jong Il has created your ideal governemnt. What do you think of him?

[Xmychem_rejectX]

Jews telling other people to stop whining?
The world is on its head.

[rodeo626]

And it's not a fucking country. It's a reference name to the region.

That would be like saying that the Orient is a country.

[Brokencheese]

Oh and regarding the original topic:
Israel has left Gaza completely and is in the process of removing the small scattered settlements in the west bank. The settlers from the west bank settlements are being consolidated into West Jerusalem which technically isn't Palestinian land or Israeli land. It was supposed to be and should still be considered an international city which means anyone can live there. That would give the Palestinians 99% of what they want. The 1% more being Jerusalem. As it is now both Israelis and Palestinians live in Jerusalem. Palestinians want it to be Palestinian only. Israeli's could care less if Palestinians live there, they would just like to be able to visit the temple mount again. Last time a jew tried that it started the second intifada and wave after wave of attacks on Israeli civilians.