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What Those Who Boycott Israel Really Want?
American Spectator ^ | 5-14-2013 | Aaron Goldstein

Posted on 05/14/2013 3:45:48 AM PDT by servo1969

For starters, to set back human progress.

You would think the Left would love a country that has universal health care, prosperous trade unions, and same sex marriage.

All of these things can be found in Israel. Yet where Israel is concerned, none of these count with the Left.

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Well, if not for Israeli science and technology, Stephen Hawking could not communicate with the world. As Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli attorney, stated, “His whole computer-based communications system runs on a chip designed by Israel’s Intel team. I suggest if he truly wants to pull out of Israel he should also pull out his Intel Core i7 from his tablet.”

Left-wing media and academic figures who want to boycott Israel must take everything that doing so entails. Those who truly support BDS must not swallow PillCams, use solar windows, place GPS devices in their automobiles or write their anti-Israeli diatribes on intel processors.

Those who support a boycott of Israel would prefer to see people poorer and sicker. Those who wish to see Israel regarded as a pariah state will succeed only in impeding the progress of science, technology, and, indeed, humanity.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bds; boycott; chomsky; hawking

1 posted on 05/14/2013 3:45:48 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

I would prefer to see those supporting BDS die slowly (but not too slowly), and horribly beyond imagination.

But that’s just me. Mean,


2 posted on 05/14/2013 3:54:51 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: servo1969
"...I suggest if he truly wants to pull out of Israel he should also pull out his Intel Core i7 from his tablet.”

Hawking is far too hypocritical and cowardly to do that.

3 posted on 05/14/2013 3:55:13 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: servo1969

Most of the world is making the same mistake Hitler did.

If Hitler had used his Jews for Germany instead of killing them we would all be speaking German now. Their scientists were brilliant and their loyalty was great. Israel shows what can be done with land that is barren, Palestinians show how quickly they can destroy what it took years to build. When Gaza was turned over to them they destroyed it almost within a week.

Much like South Africa was destroyed when turned over to
Mandella.


4 posted on 05/14/2013 4:12:15 AM PDT by Venturer
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5 posted on 05/14/2013 5:07:29 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Yehuda

Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the excerpt list.

You fail to grasp the concept after all this time, which really
doesn’t say much for your intelligence, but I’ll give it one more try
in the spirit of camaraderie and kindness to the afflicted:

Blogs that posters write themselves need not for any reason be excerpted.

Posters submitting material from a single source likely do so with
a commercial objective in mind, abusing FR as a free advertising tool.

It’s really no more complicated than that.

Read it twice. Sound out the words.


7 posted on 05/14/2013 11:42:18 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Yehuda

You’re amusing.

Pig-ignorant and obviously dumb as a post, but amusing.

Rant some more.


9 posted on 05/14/2013 1:07:52 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Yehuda
You posted from sites and you excerpted them.

The Free Republic Software forces excerpting from those sites. There is no choice by the poster.

10 posted on 05/14/2013 1:08:42 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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