550 Palestinian captives freed on Sunday evening

[P F Tinmore]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authorities freed on Sunday evening 550 Palestinian captives in fulfilment of the prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and the Israeli occupation through which a total of 1050 Palestinian captives were liberated in exchange of Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit.

Of the 550 liberated captives, 41 are from the Gaza Strip, 2 from Jordan and 507 from the West Bank and included six female captives.

The Gaza liberated captives arrived through the Karm Abu Salem crossing to an official and popular welcome. Deputy speaker of the PLC, Ahmad Bahar, as well as other lawmakers, government officials and factions leaders were in reception of the liberated captvies.

The West Bank captives were also received by representatives of all factions, lawmakers and thousands of family members who waited all day for their arrival.

550 Palestinian captives freed on Sunday evening

 

[JStone]

Palestinians: Other Arabs Who Can't Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death

Historian Sir Martin Gilbert, Official Biographer of Winston Churchill

I cannot stress enough the importance of the few days Churchill spent throughout Palestine in 1921. The contrast between the extraordinary negative points of view put forth by the Palestinian Arabs and the equally positive ones put forth by the Zionists struck him enormously. Churchill didn't like negativism and he couldn't comprehend why the Palestinian Arabs were being so negative. It's quite curious. If you have a look at what the Palestinian Arabs told him, you'll find that three or four are actually in the Hamas Charter today, such as the world Jewish conspiracy and so on and so forth. That said, the Palestinian Arabs just made a bad impression on him and subsequently, he became very negative toward them; in modern terms, almost racist. When Churchill spoke to the Palestinian Arabs, he actually said to them, 'You've got to help the Zionists. They're people of quality and inasmuch as they'll succeed, you'll succeed. Without them you won't succeed.'

Massachussets Institute of Technology [MIT]...

As a world leader in science and technology, Israel excels in such areas as genetics, medicine, agriculture, computer sciences, electronics, optics, and engineering. Scientists at Israeli universities such as Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University, Haifa University, Hebrew University, The Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science are pioneers in areas such as stem cell-based tissue engineering, nanotechnology, high-resolution electron microscopy, and solar energy. Israeli companies have developed such diverse products as the first anti-virus package, technologies that allow you to leave voice mail on mobile phones, and stents that save lives by keeping the arteries to the heart open.
MISTI MIT-Israel

 

[Mr. H.]

Why are Jews so tight with money, but then give over 1,000 prisoners away for only one of their own?

 

[JStone]

Why are Jews so tight with money, but then give over 1,000 prisoners away for only one of their own?

Jews are the biggest philanthropists in the world.

You're just bitter there isn't a charity for Irish drunks like you Hiccup

 

[Mr. H.]

If they're so philanthropic, why did they imprison those 1,000 Palestinians in the first place?

 

[JStone]

Why are Jews so tight with money, but then give over 1,000 prisoners away for only one of their own?

Hey, Irish boozer, how do you even use the internet since Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Intel all rely on their r&D centers in Israel?

Do the camel drivers and sand rats have a search engine, operating software and microprocessors?

Wall Street Journal: Israeli Start-Ups Now Have Google To Incubate Ideas
Israeli Start-Ups Now Have Google To Incubate Ideas - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

Google is setting up an “incubator” for technology start-ups in Israel, one of several ways the California-based Internet giant is trying to get an early look at innovations. A Google research director made the announcement Sunday at the company’s annual conference for developers in Israel, saying that the incubator will open in August of next year in the same building as Google’s office in Tel Aviv.

Initially, Google’s incubator will host roughly 20 “pre-seed” start ups, or about 80 people, for a period of a few months, after which new companies will come into the incubator to replace them, and the project will be open to many types of start-ups but has an emphasis on open-source technologies. Google, which isn’t expected to take equity in any of the participating start-ups, hasn’t yet announced how entrepreneurs can apply to the free program.

Google’s move is “very significant,” said Shuly Galili, executive director of the California-Israel Chamber of Commerce. “Google will have more accessibility to the talent and the know-how and what’s going on in that community,” she said, adding that she expects more U.S. tech companies to make similar moves in the future. Galili is involved in a new “accelerator” for Israeli startups called Upwest Labs that will be based in Silicon Valley, providing a chance for Israeli entrepreneurs to work on their projects and meet with investors and technology companies based in the U.S. Google is one of Upwest’s sponsors, she said.

Israel has long been known as a tech hub, sometimes called “start-up nation.” An Israeli company called PrimeSense is a key technology provider for Microsoft’s Kinect, a motion-activated video game system. Several years ago SanDisk bought Israel-based M-Systems, which made flash drives, for $1.5 billion. In the late 1990s, AOL bought an Israeli company that made ICQ, an instant-messaging service, for hundreds of millions of dollars.

“The Israeli developer community is hugely innovative and has the potential to create many more ground-breaking technological developments,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement on Monday. “This project was initiated with a desire to encourage entrepreneurship and to provide support at exactly the stage when developers are often most in need of it. The technology incubator is part of Google’s efforts to strengthen its connections with the developer community,” the spokeswoman said.

Numerous technology giants including Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Intel, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard also have offices or research centers in Israel.

Internet search giant Google will open a research-and-development center in the northern Israeli city of Haifa -- its first R&D center in the Middle East, the company announced in a statement Tuesday

As a country renowned for its thriving economy and passion for new technologies, Israel is home to many outstanding computer scientists and engineers and Google is looking to establish long partnerships with institutes and universities," the statement said.
Google to open R&D center in Israel

Google Opens Second R&D Facility In Israel

Google opened a research and development centre in Tel Aviv, the Web search leader's second such centre to open in Israel within a year.
Google opens second R&D facility in Israel | Reuters

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnC0vDx048]Innovation at Google's R&D Center in Israel - YouTube[/ame]


Following Microsoft and Google, Yahoo! is officially coming to Israel

The search engine’s penetration plan has two fronts: opening an R&D center in Haifa and entering the content business through an agreement with Walla! (TASE:WALA), the second largest Israeli portal: offering news & entertainment content, email services and search, making it Yahoo’s Israeli cousin.

Yahoo! opens R&D center in Israel, inks deal with Walla! | Venture Capital Cafe

How Israel Saved Intel
Business & Technology | How Israel saved Intel | Seattle Times Newspaper

Intel Israel

Located on Israel's Mediterranean coast, Haifa is home to Intel's Israel Development Center (IDC), as well as a sales and marketing support office. IDC was established in 1974 as Intel's first development center outside the United States. Multi-disciplinary teams at this center develop very large-scale integration (VLSI) components, VLSI CAD tools and software technologies. The pioneering 8088 processor, Intel® math coprocessors, the i860® XP processor, Ethernet communication chips, and cache and memory controllers are a few of the more than 50 products designed in IDC. IDC led the invention and development of the Intel® Pentium® processor with MMX™ technology, launched by Intel in early 1997, the Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology, launched in early 2003, and now develops Intel's future mobile microprocessors.

The IDC networking group develops advanced networking components enabling Intel and third parties to develop the most advanced PC connectivity solutions for LAN and broadband access. The CAD tool group develops logic and performance verification tools and more for Intel's chip designers, providing software tools for programming the most highly advanced processors. The software group develops software technologies and products.
Jobs at Intel - Israel, Haifa

Microsoft CEO: Microsoft Almost As Israeli As American
Microsoft CEO, in Herzliya: Our company almost as Israeli as American - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Wharton School of Business ...

Despite--or possibly because of--its small size and geopolitical isolation, Israel has developed a global reputation for its cutting-edge high-tech industry.

Israel today has the second largest number of start-ups in the world, after the US, and the largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies outside North America.

"Innovation, together with the engineering excellence and the very quick to market production of high-quality products, really makes Israel shine," says Zach Weisfeld, Microsoft Israel Director of Business Development and Strategy.

Israel has become one of Microsoft's three strategic global development centers, responsible for much of the new technology which Microsoft is now known for, such as its anti-virus software.
Israel and the Innovative Impulse - Knowledge@Wharton

 

[Mr. H.]

When's the last time you had an original thought or contributed anything of substance around here?

All you can do is cut and paste endless streams of propaganda.

 

[JStone]

When's the last time you had an original thought or contributed anything of substance around here?

All you can do is cut and paste endless streams of propaganda.

Drinking and posting is not advisable even if boozing is in your shitty irish DNA

 

[JStone]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation

How can there be an Israeli occupation when the fakesteenians' own allah has given Israel to the Jews and never even heard of the Fakestinians?

Is allah an Israeli occupier?

Quran 5:20-21: Remember Moses said to his people: 'O my people! Recall in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.

Quran 17:104 And We said to the Children of Israel after him: "Dwell in the land, then, when the final and the last promise comes near [i.e. the Day of Resurrection or the descent of Christ ['Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary) on the earth]. We shall bring you altogether as mixed crowd

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAKFlpdcfc]Applause - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mr. H.]

When's the last time you had an original thought or contributed anything of substance around here?

All you can do is cut and paste endless streams of propaganda.

Drinking and posting is not advisable even if boozing is in your shitty irish DNA

I just realized that you've never answered a single question I ever posed to you.

BTW- Why didn't they make this prisoner exchange on Saturday instead of Sunday?

 

[JStone]

When's the last time you had an original thought or contributed anything of substance around here?

All you can do is cut and paste endless streams of propaganda.

Drinking and posting is not advisable even if boozing is in your shitty irish DNA

I just realized that you've never answered a single question I ever posed to you.

BTW- Why didn't they make this prisoner exchange on Saturday instead of Sunday?

Boozer, do me a favor and propose marriage to a palesteenian girl but make sure you propose near a well. OK, boozer?

SURIF, West Bank -- A 20-year-old Palestinian woman who was thrown into a well and left to die in the name of "family honor" has not become just another statistic in one of the Middle East's most shameful practices.

The killing of Aya Baradiya – by an uncle who didn't like a potential suitor – sparked such outrage that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas scrapped laws this week that guaranteed sentences of six months or less for such killings.

On the day of the killing, the uncle and two accomplices snatched the woman and tied her hands and feet, Hebron police chief Ramadan Awad said. The suspects told interrogators she screamed and demanded to know why they wanted to kill her, but the uncle said only that she deserved to die, he said. She told them she had done nothing wrong, then her attackers dumped her into the well The water would have reached to her neck, Awad said, adding: "We can't be sure ... if she died immediately or it took her a long time to die."

So-called "honor killings" are committed regularly in traditional Arab societies that enforce strict separation between the sexes and view an unmarried woman's unsupervised contact with a man, even by telephone, as a stain on the family's reputation. There were nine such killings in the West Bank last year, and Jordan reports about 20 every year.

The police chief said suspects in honor killings often come forward immediately because they don't face serious punishment and a confession is part of the "cleansing" of family honor. However, Aya Baradiya's uncle remained silent, even saying at one point that his niece had called him and told him she just decided to go away.

Leniency for honor killings dates back to a 1960 Jordanian legal codex, parts of which are still in effect in the West Bank; the area was under Jordanian rule until it was captured by Israel in 1967. Awad, the Hebron police chief, said that under the old system, someone who killed for family honor would get a maximum of six months in prison.

In 2010, there were nine family honor killings in the West Bank, Awad said. In most cases, "family honor" was just a pretext, he added: Men would kill to clear the path for remarriage, get their wives' gold or because of problems in the family. The tougher new laws will likely reduce the number of such killings, he said.

In Hamas-ruled Gaza, at least 10 women were killed by male relatives over the past three years, according to a local activist, Majda Ibrahim. She said punishment is generally light, though in one case, a man was sentenced to death for killing his cousin after she rejected his marriage proposal. The man is on death row.

Palestinian Woman Aya Baradiya's 'Honor' Killing Sparks Tougher West Bank Laws

 

[Mr. H.]

Israelis - the Master Incubators.

 

[JStone]

Israelis - the Master Incubators.

Mick, don't drink and post even though boozing is in your shitty irish DNA

 

[Mr. H.]

Your Snoopy jammies riding a little high in your crack tonight?
Smoke another joint, JStoner and go to bed.

 

[JStone]

Your Snoopy jammies riding a little high in your crack tonight?
Smoke another joint, JStoner and go to bed.

Must be difficult to post while face-down on the floor drunk out of that shitty little irish mind.

That's irish multi-tasking

Even the Palestinians are higher on the food chain than the irish trash. At least, they don't spend all day face-down in a drunken stupor