Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy
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#2is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
Re: Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy
#3is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
On the contrary, such programs can shift focus from daily hardships and provide some hope for the future, which usually has a pacifying effect. Less extremism in Gaza is better for Israel.
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#4is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
Maybe he's just trying to lift the people up. I don't see anything anti-Israel about that.
Re: Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy
#5is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
Not in the slightest. This kind of activity (economic activity) is probably the best way possible to deescalate the conflict.
Israel has no interest in Gaza, they just want them to stop trying to attack, so if anything this program is for Israel, not against it.
If you need evidence for that, then note that even during the worst conflicts Israel kept full communication (Cell and Internet) active in Gaza, which is opposite of what is normally done (cutting communication of the opponent). And it's not for wiretapping since easy encryption makes that infeasible in bulk, plus the people you would want to tap are not the ordinary everyday Internet users.
As additional evidence, increasing economic activity in the West Bank has been the backbone of Israel's attempt to keep things calm.
The more countries depend on each other for trade the less conflict there is - this is a pattern worldwide.
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#6is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
Only by those who are so polarized that they can't condone even mutually beneficial acts because "enemies".
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#7From VentureBeat Article...
http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/09/marc-benioff-eric-ries-dav...
Here’s a list of the supporters matching donations: Skoll Foundation, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Techstars’ Brad Feld, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, author Eric Ries, 500 Startups’ Dave McClure, Aramex cofounder Fadi Ghandour, Crescent Enterprises CEO Badr Jafar, Leap Ventures’ Hala Fadel, Tech.eu cofounder Jon Bradford, Kapor Capital partner Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor, National Beverage Company — Coca-Cola Palestine Chairman and CEO Zahi Khouri, Jabbar chairman Samih Toukan, Google principal scientist Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Uber’s Amsterdam head of engineering Mustafa Sezgin, 500 Startups’ Khailee Ng, Techstars COO Jenny Lawton, and Techstars cofounder David Cohen.
Re: Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy
#8is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
Gaza has population of about 1.8 million with a high literacy rate, 97%. It is a densely populated enclave.
It might well be a political statement, but not necessarily a statement against Israel. I think its more like providing an economic life-line.
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#9is doing something like this considered a political statement against israel?
Not in the slightest. This kind of activity (economic activity) is probably the best way possible to deescalate the conflict. Israel has no interest in Gaza, they just want them to stop trying to attack, so if anything this program is for Israel, not against it. If you need evidence for that, then note that even during the worst conflicts Israel kept full communication (Cell and Internet) active in Gaza, which is opp…
>[...] they just want them to stop trying to attack, so if anything this program is for Israel, not against it.
I hate to bring politics in this, but any sort of aid given to the Gaza people can be construed by others as being political. In fact, people arguing for the Two-State Solution or the end of the expansion of settlements on the West Bank make the argument that such a development would be the best for Israel, and not against it. Since others (ie., the current right-wing gov't of Israel and its supporters) would interpret that as being against Israel, I can't imagine the same people would see economic aid to Gaza as being beneficial to them.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not in the slightest. This kind of activity (economic activity) is probably the best way possible to deescalate the conflict. Israel has no interest in Gaza, they just want them to stop trying to attack, so if anything this program is for Israel, not against it. If you need evidence for that, then note that even during the worst conflicts Israel kept full communication (Cell and Internet) active in Gaza, which is opp…
>[...] they just want them to stop trying to attack, so if anything this program is for Israel, not against it. I hate to bring politics in this, but any sort of aid given to the Gaza people can be construed by others as being political. In fact, people arguing for the Two-State Solution or the end of the expansion of settlements on the West Bank make the argument that such a development would be the best for Israel,…
I would suspect one reason is because fewer attacks from Gaza would mean less global sympathy for the cause which that group of right-wing Israelis support (a larger, rather than smaller, state of Israel).