* 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 US, 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. 24% of Israel's workforce hold university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world (after the US and Holland) and 12% hold advanced degrees. [1]
* Israel has the highest in the world ratio of university degrees to the population.
* Israel has the highest per capita ratio of scientific publications in the world by a large margin, 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 US (3,500 companies mostly in high tech). On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.
* The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel.
* Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
* Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
* The Pentium MMX and Centrino as well as Core Duo chips were designed by the Israel R&D division of Intel.
* An average of 1,549 scientific articles per million residents per year were published by Israel in 1999-2003. This puts Israel just behind Switzerland in this category. The corresponding numbers are 900 for the US and 729 for the EU.
* Israel accounted for 1.28% of all scientific articles worldwide. The leading field in Israel was mathematics, in which Israel accounted for 2.74% of all articles, followed by computer science (2.22%) and physics (1.52%).
* The proportion of women among R&D workers in Israel was 23.4%. This puts Israel in second place, behind Denmark. Women accounted for 37% of all degrees granted in science and engineering in Israel, one of the highest proportions in the world.
What have arabs done that is comparable to that?
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Anonymous2006-07-22 8:14
>>39
You can't integrate a population that wants to destroy your state and kill everyone of your ethnicity.
Even the surrounding arab states hate the palestinians who do nothing but whine, terrorise and leech on US/Israel aid
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Anonymous2006-07-22 9:37
Fact: Israel bombed all the roads and bridges leading out of south Lebanon BEFORE they started dropping the "get north of the river" fliers and are now amassing their troops at the border.
Proposition: Israel's trying to make itself look humane before its troops move in and massacre unarmed civilians by claiming they gave them ample warning, even though they crippled any means of mass evacuation these people might have had.
Conclusion: Jews aren't any better than Arabs.
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Anonymous2006-07-22 10:26
>>42
>Conclusion: Jews aren't any better than Arabs.
Jews are smarter. They manage to make it look as if they're playing by the rules when in reality they're showing the fucking Arabs that they've had enough of their shit.
I really don't know why you're all defending the Arabs. They're basically running around all the time saying nyaa nyaa we don't play fair but you have to or you'll be in deep shit.
Also, look at the Arab immigrants in your own country. Nigger, please. These people aren't pleasant. I'll take Jews over that anytime.
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Anonymous2006-07-22 11:03
Fact: If the IDF wanted to kill arabs, 300000+ would be dead by now, not 300.
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Anonymous2006-07-22 11:13
Boring, just kill all jews and arabs.
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Xel2006-07-22 14:50
>>45 Or 1. Crush religion and replace it with non-metaphysical ideologies. 2. 3. PWNT!!!
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Anonymous2006-07-22 15:28
>>46
You don't know the first thing about metaphysics.
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Anonymous2006-07-23 4:11
>>39
I don't know, if you got attack first, and you fought back and kicked their asses and grabed some of their land, is it right to just give back those lands to your enemies before any peace deal is made or any conpensation is paid? It's like a school bully beat you up in school and you fought back and kick his ass and take his money for your injury. The moral thing seems to be not to keep the money but I don't know, the fucktard started the fight first....
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Anonymous2006-07-23 4:13
religions are cool, the more the merrier, haven't you play civ4?
In every war in europe, the winner usually ended up taking a chunk of the loser's country and nobody complained at all. But cause it's the jews doing it to the muslims, it's suddenly a huge war crime. sigh
OH YES LET'S GO INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S PROSPERING COUNTRY AND START A NEW NATION BECAUSE THE HOLOCAUST HAPPENED TO US. OH BOO HOO WE ARE SO INNOCENT. YES, LET'S FUCK UP OUR RELATIONS WITH THE FUCKING ARABS MORE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE CONFLICT. NOW WHO'S THE FUCKTARD?
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Anonymous2006-07-24 4:35
WHOA HINT HINT: PALESTINE WAS NEVER A FUCKING COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
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Anonymous2006-07-24 4:37
ACTUALLY YES, YES IT WAS. READ YOUR FUCKING HISTORY.
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Anonymous2006-07-24 5:03
IF PALESTINE WAS A COUNTRY (AND IT WASN'T IN ANY ACCEPTED DEFINITION OF THE TERM), THEN SO WAS THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL (WHICH PRECEDES PALESTINE BY A FEW THOUSAND YEARS ROFLMAO)
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Anonymous2006-07-24 9:18
>>55
>WHICH WAS DESTROYED AND CEASED TO EXIST A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO ROFLMAO
fixed
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Anonymous2006-07-24 10:56
>>55
Show me map that displays Palestine as a country.
>>56
WRONG. JEWS NEVER FULLY LEFT JERUSALEM IN THOSE 4000 YEARS. I MEAN FOR SUCKS SAKE, 4000 YEARS... LET THEM HAVE THE DAMN PLACE
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Anonymous2006-07-24 15:43
>>59
Yeah, native Americans never left North America completely either. Duh... just let them have the damn place they couldn't defend back then.
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Anonymous2006-07-24 16:54
>>60
Sorry to burst your bubble, there are some native tribes on US soil that have their own government. A nation within a nation as it were. Of course they won't get the rest of the US because to the victor goes the spoils.
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Anonymous2006-07-24 16:56
native americans can't defend america now either... the jews can and do defend israel though, so what's your point?
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Anonymous2006-07-24 19:12
>>61
Uh no, they don't have their own govt, they still have to obey US laws. Burst my bubble? You just made my point.
>>62
The Jews wouldn't have stood a chance without support, they were enabled to defend Israel by the West. In fact, we're still supporting them.
"There are 563 Federally recognized tribal governments in the United States. The United States recognizes the right of these tribes to self-government and supports their tribal sovereignty and self-determination. These tribes possess the right to form their own government, to enforce laws (both civil and criminal), to tax, to establish membership, to license and regulate activities, to zone and to exclude persons from tribal territories. Limitations on tribal powers of self-government include the same limitations applicable to states; for example, neither tribes nor states have the power to make war, engage in foreign relations, or coin money. [9]"
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Anonymous2006-07-24 19:51
>>64
They don't have the sovereignity an independent country would have. Geez, get a grip.
I bet the Hezballah did the same with their rockets...
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Anonymous2006-07-25 8:16
First of all, racially speaking the Zionist Jews of Israel are barely any different from your modern day Arab. Second of all, the current state of Israel (The Israel of the last 5 or 6 decades) is due entirely to western aid. Entirely. You idiots have no idea how much money our government has dumped into Israel for the sole purposes of destabilizing the Middle East (does the middle east looks stable to you?). And don't even get me started on the Jews, Jew sympathizers, Venture capitalists from the private sector. WW2 really did change everything.
So Israel is no better than Hezballah. (who you hate, even though you know FUCK ALL about Hezballah)
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Xel2006-07-25 8:48
>>70 Stoppit with the "Israel is made up of US money"-spiel, the facts spit on stuff like that. Israelians are behind a lot of scientific progress so you get value for money Plus, all the Islamic states are behind Israel on most civil/humanitarian parameters not to mention it was Islamistic machismo and short-sigghtedness that started the all-fronts war that in turn caused Israel's bullying, inhuman treatment of the Palestinians. Israel treat people like shit because they can't do things the utilitarian way (I don't condone the bloodshed and brutality they've built their nation on, but I understand), their enemies treat Israel like a cancer because of their submission to a territorial, supernatural ideal (I understand Islam's reaction, and condone their criticism, I just think it has a less rational basis).
>>73 The value of IQ and it's contingency with EQ is in doubt, yet these type of links are win.
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Anonymous2006-07-25 8:55
My guess is Israelis are more concerned with building their relatively new country and defending it against terrorists than solving puzzles that bump iq scores.
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Anonymous2006-07-25 9:13
>>75
Yeah, I can see them standing up and running out of the room during the test screaming "I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS SHIT, I NEED TO BUILD MY RELATIVELY NEW COUNTRY AND DEFEND IT AGAINST TERRORISM, FUCK YOUR PUZZLES".
>>65
Neither does the people of Palestine but at least the Native Americans don't blow crap up. My point was to correct the idiot who said there was no Native American government.
No, Xel. There's a thing called ethics here. Israel didn't give us any new sciences that weren't already being farmed here and else where. Do you really think the cellphone would've NEVER been invented if it weren't for Israel? Get a god damn clue already kid.
The Nazis gave us lots of science (actual USEFUL science) too, no one is saying: "Good thing we let our corporations continue to do business with them while they were killing millions of jews!"