[antimedia] antimedia: In times like these....

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Posted by antimedia:
In times like these....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1154123971.shtml


   ....it's good to remember who your friends are. One of my friends sent
   this.

     Amazing Little Country
     The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The
     average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of
     dates a year. Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year
     and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or a short
     ladder.
     Israel the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the
     world's population, can lay claim to the following:
     The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the
     Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development
     center in Israel ..
     Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by
     Microsoft-Israel.
     The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
     Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were
     entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel. The Pentium
     microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel .
     Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. Both Microsoft and
     Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel ..
     The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in
     1996 by four young Israelis.
     Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the
     U.S., Russia and China). In addition to a large variety of other
     aircraft, Israel's air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250
     F-16's. This is the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the
     U. S.
     Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate
     neighbors combined
     Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers
     per capita.
     According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline
     industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look
     (finally) to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security
     threats.
     Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the
     population in the world. Israel produces more scientific papers per
     capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000
     people -- as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents
     filed.
     In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of
     startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the
     largest number of startup companies than any other country in the
     world, except the U.S. (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
     With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has
     the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world --
     apart from the Silicon Valley , U.S.
     Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right
     behind the U.S.
     Outside the United States and Canada , Israel has the largest
     number of NASDAQ listed companies.
     Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East
     . The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of
     the UK ..
     On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech
     startups.
     Twenty-four % of Israel's workforce holds university degrees,
     ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States
     and Holland and 12 % hold advanced degrees.
     Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
     In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews
     (Operation Solomon) at Risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel ..
     When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she
     became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
     When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998,
     Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day -- and saved
     three victims from the rubble.
     Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the
     highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
     Relative to its population, Israel is the largest
     immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of
     democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. (Hundreds
     of thousands from the former Soviet Union).
     Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly
     process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as
     "conflict free."
     Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
     Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st
     century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more
     remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly
     desert.
     Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
     Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully
     computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast
     cancer.
     An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring
     proper administration of medications, thus removing human error
     from medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000
     patients die from treatment mistakes.
     Israel's Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera,
     so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine
     from the inside for cancer and digestive disorders.
     Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps
     the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save
     lives among those with heart failure The new device is synchronized
     with the camera helps doctors diagnose the heart's mechanical
     operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
     Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians
     in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.
     S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of
     its work force employed in technical professions.
     Israel places first in this category as well.
     A new acne treatment developed in Israel , the Clear Light device,
     produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue
     light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without
     damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
     An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a
     large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity
     generating plant, in southern California 's Mojave desert ..
     All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable
     enemy that seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under
     strain by having to spend more per capita on its own protection
     than any other country on earth.
     . . AND (this is a direct quote)THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND
     SAYS : "ISRAEL IS NOTHING BUT [1]A SHITTY LITTLE COUNTRY"

   I didn't verify every one of the statements in this list, but I did
   check with Snopes, and, as you can see, I verified that the French
   ambassador to England did call Israel a shitty little country
   (although I can't verify that the above is an exact quote.)

References

   1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1721172.stm