The sheep-like bleating of the BDS campaigners (Boycott, divestment and sanctions) suggesting that Israel is an Apartheid State, is so far from reality. If only these campaigners were prepared to listen to the facts. But, of course, this is too simple - "don't confuse me with facts" they say.
Perhaps BDS is better defined as "Blackmail, Deligitimisation and Slander", this seems to me rather more appropriate.
So if it is the intention to boycott Israeli products, let's stop being hypocritical, stop being choosey. Here are another two products that can be boycotted.
a) SpineAssist – an Israeli invention – is revolutionizing delicate spinal surgery.
Many patients scheduled for a major spinal operation naturally worry that they might find themselves in a wheelchair due to a surgical error, or simple bad luck. While this happens only rarely, it is a possibility.
The results of orthopedic surgery are as good as the specialist who performs it – but today, the risk is much reduced. Not only is there computer-assisted navigation for hip replacement, for example (introduced in the past decade), but now there is a robot that guides orthopedic surgeons in performing operations customized for each patient’s anatomy. The world’s first such robotic system, called SpineAssist, is Israeli – based on the work of a scientist at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and marketed around the world by Mazor Robotics (http://www.mazorrobotics.com/) of Caesarea.
b) New non-invasive,radiation-free lung imaging system.
The FDA recently approved a groundbreaking system created by Deep Breeze, Ltd, an Israeli company in Or Akiva. It is viewed by some as the most important breakthrough innovation and another amazing Israeli innovation.Please watch video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FcseDRyepA
THE PROBLEM THAT ISRAEL HAS, IS THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO ISRAEL,OR MAY HAVE BEEN, WITH A CLOSED JEW HATRED MIND, ARE THE ONES WHO CAUSE THE PROPBLEM I MENTION HERE, ARCHBISHOP TUTU WHO TOLD THE JEWS, WHILST AT YAD VASHEM, HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE, TO PRAY FOR AND FORGIVE THE NAZIS FOR THE MURDER OF 6 MILLION JEWS, OF WHICH 1.5 MILLION WERE BABIES AND CHILDREN.
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THEN WE HAVE AN ANGLICAN REVEREND LLOYD THOMAS AND OTHERS OF THE ANGLICN CHURCH, WHO HAVE WRITTEN THE MOST VILE, DISGUSTING HATE ABOUT ISRAEL, AND OF COURSE, "THE ZIONISTS". THEY NEVER FORGET "THE ZIONISTS" THE EDITORS OF THE NEWSPAPER PRINTS THEIR HATE LETTERS, BUT VERY SELDOM ALLOWS OTHERS TO COUNTER THOSE LIES AND HATE. I HAVE HAD MANY DISCUSSION WITH THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS ABOUT THIS, BUT HE HAS NEVER EVER VISITED ISRAEL, AND ALWAYS REFERS TO THE "WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWS, IS ZIONISM" I HAVE TRIED TO CONVINCE HIM THAT ZIONISM IS THE DREAM OF 2000 YEARS, OF THE JEWS RETURNING TO THEIR BIBLICAL HOME LAND. AND THAT ZIONISM IS NOT THE JEWISH EQUIVALENT OF AL QUAIDA. ZIONISM IS NOT A TERRORIST ORGANISATION. WITH THESE PEOPLE, SPREADING HATE AND LIES, THEY ARE WORKING FOR THE ISLAMIC PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND SPREADING MORE LIES AND HATE.
IN JERUSALEM, MOST OF THE STREET SIGNS ARE IN HEBREW, ENGLISH AND ARABIC.
IMAGINE A HEBREW STREET SIGN IN ANY ISLAMIC COUNTRY.
WHAT WAS APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, WAS NOT WHAT WE SEE IN ISRAEL.
SOME 20 YEARS AGO,I WENT ON BUSINESS TO THE VILLAGES IN THE COLUNTRY. WE, MY CLOURED DRIVER AND I, ARRIVED AT A SMALL TOWN, EARLY ONE MORNING,WHERE THE TEMPERATURE WAS BELOW FREEZING.
WE BOTH WALKED INTO A CAFE AND ASKED FOR COFFEE. THE OWNER THREW MY DRIVER OUT AS HE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY BLACKS INTO HIS SHOP.
I TOLD HIM WHERE TO STICK HIS COFFEE, AND WE WENT TO THE NEXT TOWN
THAT IS APARTHEID. YOU DO NOT SEE THAT IN THAT IN ISRAEL.
aRABS ARE ATTENDED TO IN SHOPS, MARKETS, RESTAURANTS, SUPERMARKETS, EXACTLY AS ANY JEW IS ATTENED TO.
IF PEOPLE LIKE TUTU WAOULD STOP HIS HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL, AND "TURN THE OTHER CHEEK" AND START TO SUPPOLRT ISRAEL, THEN THE WORLD WOULD LEARN TO STOP THEIR HATRED. THEN, MAYBE THERE WOULD BE PEACE. BUT TUTU HAS TREMENDOUS INFULENCE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
THE EDITOR SAID TO ME THAT ISRAEL MUST FIRST MAKE PEACE WITH THE ARABS, THEN WORRY ABOUT SECURITY.
THAT TO ME, IS IGNORANT APARTHEID.
HOW CAN ISRAEKL MAKE PEACE WITH THOSE WHO HAVE SWORN TO DESTRY ISRAEL?
What a great list! Thanks so much for including Simple Bites.
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