Israel Saving The World, Again

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Israel: Techonomy Success

Israel’s founding fathers must be proud. After all, the spirit in which the country was created, with tenacity and against all odds, is not too different from the way an entrepreneur creates and nurtures a startup. So in a world where oil is king, Israel is proving that hard work and ingenuity are just as formidable, if not more.

For a Middle Eastern country, Israel has very little oil. But what it lacks in natural resources, it has made up for in human resourcefulness. The tiny nation of 7 million people is a much-envied model of technology entrepreneurialism. So much so that it is globally acknowledged as the “Startup Nation.” Indeed, Israel is believed to attract more venture capital per person than any other country and more NASDAQ IPOs have been filed from Israel than any country outside the U.S.

Snaptu, a phone apps maker founded in 2007, was acquired by Facebook last month. In fact, high-profile companies have gobbled up quite a long list of Israeli startups over the past year. In September 2010, AOL bought video content provider 5Min Media and Google took over Quiksee, which has developed the technology to integrate personal videos into Google Maps. The same month Russian search engine Yandex invested a substantial sum in face recognition application provider Face.com.
But this is not just a recent trend. Since 1972 when medical imaging venture Elscint became Israel's first company to file a NASDAQ IPO, at least 160 Israeli startups have filed IPOs at the technology stock exchange, hundreds of Israeli ventures have been acquired, and the world has benefited from Israeli innovations such as the USB memory stick, instant messaging, and advanced cardiac stents.

Even non-Israeli technology giants such as Intel and Microsoft have grown on the back of their operations in Israel. In fact, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been quoted as saying that Microsoft is “an Israeli company as much as an American company," given the size and importance of its Israeli teams.
Israeli tech startups | Israeli venture capital industry | Techonomy success marks revival of startup culture

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Named Most Admired US Company
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Berkshire Hathaway One of World's Most Admired Companies
World's Most Admired Companies 2011: Berkshire Hathaway snapshot - FORTUNE on CNNMoney.com

Warren Buffett

We believe generally in the United States, we believe in ourselves and what a young country can achieve. Israel, since 1948, now a major factor in commerce and in the world. It's a smaller replica of what has been accomplished here and I think Americans admire that. They feel good about societies that are on the move.

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John F. Kennedy

When the first Zionist conference met in 1897, Palestine was a neglected wasteland

I first saw Palestine in 1939. There the neglect and ruin left by centuries of Ottoman [Muslim] misrule were slowly being transformed by miracles of [Jewish] labor and sacrifice. But Palestine was still a land of promise in 1939, rather than a land of fulfillment. I returned in 1951 to see the grandeur of Israel

I left with the conviction that the United Nations may have conferred on Israel the credentials of nationhood; but its own idealism and courage, its own sacrifice and generosity, had earned the credentials of immortality.

The original Zionist philosophy has always maintained that the people of Israel would use their national genius not for selfish purposes but for the enrichment and glory of the entire Middle East. The earliest leaders of the Zionist movement spoke of a Jewish state which would have no military power and which would be content with victories of the spirit

The technical skills and genius of Israel have already brought their blessings to Burma and to Ethiopia. Still other nations in Asia and in Africa are eager to benefit from the special skills available in that bustling land
John F. Kennedy: Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Zionists of America Convention, Statler Hilton Hotel, New York, NY

 

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Warren Buffett

If you go to the Middle East looking for oil, you don't need to stop in Israel. But, if you're looking for brains, for energy, for integrity, for imagination, it's the only stop you need to make"

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[ima]

Are your ancestors from Europe? Why don't you move back to where you came from?

That's exactly how stupid what you said sounds.

Nobody's strapping dynamite to themselves to try to blow me up where I live. Personally, I WOULD leave if that was the case.

Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification. So you wouldn't stand up and fight for your home, children, and country. You'd just get up and leave. It's a good thing there aren't too many with your mindset in this country. Praise be to Allah.

So it's more important to you to forcibly expose your women and children to war?
Yes, I would move, the world is a vast place and most of it is living peacefully.
Anyways, most Jews have family roots outside of Israel. Which home are you talking about?

 

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Is there ANYONE who can deny that while not all Muslims are world terrorists, the overwhelming majority of world terrorists are Muslims?

Al-Qaeda have how many members? A few hundred? Maybe a thousand? And they've so far killed what? 4000 people?

The US army has a few million members and killed I don't know how many hundreds of thousands since at least Nam.

So the answer would be: most terrorists are Christian.

 

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Warren Buffett

We believe generally in the United States, we believe in ourselves and what a young country can achieve. Israel, since 1948, now a major factor in commerce and in the world. It's a smaller replica of what has been accomplished here and I think Americans admire that. They feel good about societies that are on the move.

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