The BDS movement taken to it's logical conclusion.

[Roudy]

Sounds a lot like IBS. LOL

Can you imagine what happens to groups like BDS and IslamoNazi outlets when Israel starts selling its gas almost all of Europe and a few Arab countries like Jordan and Egypt? They'll be eating their soiled underwear and braying like donkeys.

 

[Challenger]

Ha ha ha...Israel is set to export its newfound gas not only to Europe, but the rest of the world (including many Arab Muskim countries)! Wow, another BDS accomplishment!

The Strategic Impact of Israel's Export of Natural Gas - inFocus Quarterly Journal

Israeli gas group in talks on pipelines to Turkey, Jordan, Egypt

Has Russia sold out Iran for a stake in Israeli gas? - The Commentator

http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/israels-fortune-is-putins-horror/

Sounds a lot like IBS. LOL

Can you imagine what happens to groups like BDS and IslamoNazi outlets when Israel starts selling its gas almost all of Europe and a few Arab countries like Jordan and Egypt? They'll be eating their soiled underwear and braying like donkeys.

Seems Rude-ee still hasn't got it, even when people go to the trouble of providing a pro-Zionist critique of BDS for him. Well, as they say, you can lead a horse to water...

 

[Roudy]

Europe will sign a contract to buy Israeli gas. That's how it works. BDS and the Muslim European neo Nazi fascists can bray all they want.

 

[montelatici]

Little by little.

"Slovenia's biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves"

Slovenia's biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves

 

[Roudy]

Not to worry, the neighboring Arabs will buy those.

 

[Roudy]

Little by little.

"Slovenia's biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves"

Slovenia's biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves

Yah? How about you stop these guys? Ha ha ha:

Israel Has Emerged as an R&D Alternative to Silicon Valley

65 years on, Israel is top choice for tech by multinationals

List of multinationals with research and development centres in Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Roudy]

I love it, one of the biggest and most important tech companies in the world, Apple, ties the knot with Israel:
zdnet.com
Tim Cook visits Israel to open Apple's new R&D center | ZDNet

Tim Cook does a selfie with Apple Israel employees. Image: Apple
From zero presence just a few years ago, Apple has become entrenched in the Israeli tech economy. And after acquiring two Israeli startups - Anobit in 2012 and PrimeSense in 2013 - Apple now has some 700 employees in the country, with 250 hired in just the last year, according to industry sources.
Speaking to Apple employees in Israel on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook said that Israel is now Apple's second largest engineering facility in the world.
Now, those workers - and the additional 50 the company is seeking to hire, the sources said - will be housed in a brand spanking new facility in Tel Aviv's tech suburb, Herzliya. Inaugurating the new Israel facility yesterday, Cook told Apple employees that "Apple is in Israel because the engineering talent here is incredible. You guys are incredibly important to everything that we do and to all the products that we build."

A day earlier, Cook met with government officials, including Israeli president Reuven Rivlin. "Your contribution to humanity is unprecedented," Rivlin told Cook. "It's clear even to me, who prefers to write with a pen and paper, what a great miracle you have created when I see through my staff, and my grandchildren" using iPads and iPhones. Cook thanked the president for his welcome and said, "we have an enormous admiration for Israel, not just as an important ally for the US, but as a place to do business."
Although Apple has fewer than 1,000 employees in Israel - so far - the company actually has many more thousands of "affiliates" who belong to Apple's Paid Developer Program; there are over 6,500 members in Israel.

According to recent research from app research firm Vision Mobile, at least 20,000 jobs in Israel's app economy are directly attributable to iOS. That puts Apple close to the top of job-creating multinationals in Israel - bested only by Intel, which claims to be responsible for 30,000 Israeli jobs when suppliers and service personnel are taken into account.
According to the sources, most of Apple's direct employees in Israel are engineers. Among them are about 150 the company hired last year when Texas Instruments let some 250 engineers go after it closed its Israeli R&D site down. Apple hired most of them, beating out Intel, which was vying for the engineers as well.

According to sources quoted in the Israeli media, Apple "saw its opportunity and took it, hiring dozens of some of the most talented communications engineers in the world. They are bringing with them knowledge that Apple does not currently possess, and they will get a finished product almost specifically made for them." The sources quoted weren't referring to a specific product, but to designs that the TI engineers had been working on when they were laid off that they could easily reproduce for Apple. "It's part of Apple's new strategy of developing the technology it needs in-house, instead of relying on outside companies and contractors."
Apple's New Herzliya R&D center Image: Olivier Hess Photography
Along with the congratulatory statements, Rivlin and Cook discussed some of the other issues that concern Israel and Apple, such as diversity. "Diversity for us is part of how Apple achieves what it achieves," Cook said. "Employing people for who they are and not because of their ethnicity or background. When we work like this, we celebrate diversity, and benefit on all sides."
And for Rivlin, one symbol of diversity is Apple's VP of hardware technology Johny Srouji - an Israeli Arab born in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The government in Israel has been on a major campaign to convince companies to hire more Israeli Arabs, and has set up numerous programs, including a salary subsidy scheme, as well as a sort of 'finishing school' in Nazareth, where university graduates can pick up tips on working in Israel's tech culture, polish their resumes and their English, and perfect their interviewing skills.
As such, Srouji, said Rivlin, could be a real role model for Israeli Arabs, and other minorities in the country. "Imagine what the world would be like with another five Johny Sroujis," said Rivlin. "We are proud of him, and all he has achieved."

 

[Roudy]

All the "big boys" including GOOGLE, have an R & D foothold set up in Israel. Would that be another BDS success?

About Google's Israel R&D Center​

Google's Research and Development Center in Israel - with offices in Haifa and Tel Aviv - is the place to be for software engineers who want to develop the next-generation technologies and push the limits. Here, we build global products and innovate on a large scale.


Our engineers work on problems in a variety of areas including information-retrieval algorithms, massive scalability and storage solutions, and cool applications that enrich the user experience. We also work extensively on networking systems, advertising systems, and complex transaction systems in consumer applications. We are very proud of the key projects that were launched from our site (see a few examples below). Our teams are leading many projects as well as working with teams globally.

Below is a sample of some the areas we are working on:

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  • Search – We have teams advancing the Search experience, with projects including Google Autocomplete, Live Results (try searching for “weather tel aviv”, “goog”, or “mlb”), Google Related and more. The teams work closely with global teams on projects such as Google Instant.
  
  
  • Analytics – We have teams working on technologies to analyze and visualize massive data sets and use the power of that data for the benefit of advertisers, website owners, scholars, and many other users. These include Google Insights for Search, Google Trends, Website Optimizer, Google Chart Tools, In-Page Analytics and more. The teams work closely with global teams on projects such as Google Analytics.
  
  
  • Applications – We have teams working on backend technologies behind Gmail and other applications, as well as new advanced features (e.g. “got the wrong bob”). The teams work closely with global teams on projects such as Gmail Priority Inbox.
  
  
  • Infrastructure Software – We are tackling some exciting technological challenges with unique algorithms in making one of the world’s largest networks work more effectively. While much of the work is behind the scenes, it helps driving the great experience users get from Google products.
  
  
  • Special Projects – In addition to our already established efforts we incubate highly innovative projects in various disciplines. These include projects for emerging markets, projects that involve advanced computer vision technologies, and more. Some special projects were the seeds to some of the current big initiatives while others are kept as small but high-impact projects.

We encourage Googlers to spend 20% of their time on their own ideas. Projects resulted from 20% initiatives in Israel include YouTube Annotations (which is now used in YouTube clips) as well as our partnership with Yad Vashem to make their Holocaust archive accessible and searchable to a global audience. A few Googlers are spending their 20% time on high impact community outreach efforts; these include working with the developers community, leading programs encouraging high school students to consider science and technology, with particular attention to diversity (touching thousands of students to date), or teaching open source and web technologies at universities (for instance, classes given at Tel Aviv University).

Research


We seek new and innovative solutions to a variety of computational problems which arise from our engineering projects. Our research is focused on algorithms, machine learning, game theory, computer vision and data mining, however we also employ techniques from other branches of computer science. The fruits of research projects are often published in leading conferences and have an effect on Google's products and the industry at large. We also collaborate with the scientific community and support scientific research at the academia (for instance, our research initiative on auctions and market algorithms).

 

[Roudy]

And of course Microsoft will be there, who else?! But wait, we got this Serbian antisemitic supermarket and they just HATE Israel. Ha ha ha. Ya gotta love it. Here's another shining BDS success:

http://www.microsoftrnd.co.il/About/Pages/default.aspx
About

"We must each have the courage to transform as individuals. We must ask ourselves, what idea can I bring to life? What individual life could I change?"

Satya Nadella. CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. it sets out to complete this mission by building the best-in-class platforms and productivity services for a mobile-first, cloud-first world.
The Microsoft Israel R&D Center is one of three strategic global development centers situated around the world. Our mission is to lead strategic products and services that realize Microsoft's vision, by tapping into Israel's unique technological & entrepreneurial assets.
How do we set out to achieve our goals? By making a difference and always looking on to the future. We are unique in thought, with a culture founded on a growth mindset. Innovation is in our blood. we constantly ask how we can go further beyond and create the next best thing for our customers. Our customers' needs are our beacon. We are customer obsessed. Always listening, always watching.
We are a collective of rare individuals - diverse and inclusive. We value differences. We seek them out and invite them in. As a result, our ideas are better, our products are better and our customers are better served. A place of work where collaboration and ingenuity meet everyday life with a smile and a perk. Our center is home to some of the company's most exciting and innovative technologies where the great minds of the local industry have a bed to grow and bloom.
Our joint endeavors with the local community are part of our strive to make a difference and achieve more. The Center's Academia and Community Outreach programs collaborate with excelling students and researchers as well as promote tech education among Israeli youth - making an impact on the future of individuals and our community as a whole. The local Microsoft Ventures Tel- Aviv team leads the company's support of the Israeli High-Tech community and manages the dialogue and connection between Israeli startups, VC's and Microsoft.
It has been 25 years since Microsoft founded its original R&D operation in Haifa, in 1991, harnessing Israel's deep technological talent pool and its thriving High-Tech community. Today, the center's activity is strategically situated in two main locations - Herzeliya and Haifa, where its charter and vision continue to constantly grow.

 

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[Hollie]

 

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[fanger]

American musicians who support boycotting Israel over the issue of Palestinian rights are terrified to speak out for fear their careers will be destroyed, according to Roger Waters.

The Pink Floyd star – a prominent supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel since its inception 10 years ago – said the experience of seeing himself constantly labelled a Nazi and anti-Semite had scared people into silence.

“The only response to BDS is that it is anti-Semitic,” Waters toldThe Independent, in his first major UK interview about his commitment to Israeli activism. “I know this because I have been accused of being a Nazi and an anti-Semite for the past 10 years.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on why his fellow musicians are terrified to condemn Israel

 

[Hollie]

BDS is failing: a continuing series (July 2015)


BDS
BDS is failing: a continuing series (July 2015)

 

[fanger]

Great, if your perception is BDS is failing, why complain?

 

[Hollie]

Great, if your perception is BDS is failing, why complain?

It is failing.

I'm just trying to educate the ignorant and the Jew haters such as yourself to that fact.

You're welcome to complain about getting a bit of education, but honestly I don't complain about offering some education to slow adults.

 

[Hollie]

As a movement, the BDS Bust might need a laxative.


The BDS movement’s failure to derail Israel’s international relations or economy.

The Jerusalem Post

 

[fanger]

Great, if your perception is BDS is failing, why complain?

It is failing.

I'm just trying to educate the ignorant and the Jew haters such as yourself to that fact.

You're welcome to complain about getting a bit of education, but honestly I don't complain about offering some education to slow adults.

Yes, We will re-double our efforts to improve, I´m sure everyone supporting BDS thanks you for the heads up