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How Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub

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Re: How Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub

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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.

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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.

Are Israel's issues any worse than China? Would you refuse to do business with China?

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Guys look at this. I was about to same as CQ, http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/prominent-israeli-rabbi... Things are about to get so hot over there. This is very big news. This could be the thing that sets everything off.

This has no relevance to the posted story.

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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.

Contrary to what cq might wish to portray, Israel is by and large a fair society to live in. There's a reason that 20% of the population are Arabs who choose to stay in Israel instead of living in one of the surrounding countries.

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Guys look at this. I was about to same as CQ, http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/prominent-israeli-rabbi... Things are about to get so hot over there. This is very big news. This could be the thing that sets everything off.

This has no relevance to the posted story.

You're right, it's irrelevant. Let's just talk about meebo and shmeebo here.

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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.

With the Israeli government? Or with Israelis in general?

Not doing business with Israelis because you disagree with policies of their government seems nonsensical to me.

Re: How Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub

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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.

I totally agree with you cq. Since Saturday 30+ people died in protests in Egypt. It was reported today that a news photographer in Syria got his eyes cut off before he was executed. Israel is such a douche.

Re: How Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub

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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.

Are Israel's issues any worse than China? Would you refuse to do business with China?

Even the comparison to China seems like an overkill.

Israel is a democracy, China isn't. Israel has free speech, China doesn't.

The two can hardly be compared.

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