Will this increase or decrease the likelihood of terrorist actions in America, Europe and the rest of the world?

If you were a member of a family murdered in this conflict, would you be seeking revenge?

Should Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert, be tried for war crimes if or when this conflict comes to an end?

What will the price of oil be in 4 weeks time?

There were reporters from Al Jazeera on board plus journalists from other news services. The Israelis jammed signals, meaning no phones, live video or Internet from the boat as they neared it.

quel dommage

The other boats in the flotilla were against the French boat sailing to Gaza separately as they are getting better publicity and consequently Israeli getting worse publicity by being held by Greece.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14168618

20/07/2011 - 02:18 PM

British foreign secretary William Hague has expressed disappointment at news on Tuesday of tenders being issued for over 300 housing units in the Israeli settlements of Beitar Ilit and Karnei Shomron in the West Bank.

He said in a press release, I am extremely disappointed by news that Israels Housing Ministry has published tenders for over 300 housing units in West Bank settlements.

Such announcements that expand illegal West Bank settlements, create further obstacles on the difficult path to peace. What is needed is an urgent return to negotiations on a two state solution.

I would think Britain is a blown squib in Israel and the ME. in general, The opinion will have little effect on the Israelis or those in the Arabs fraternity.

In West Bank, settler violence seen on the rise
http://news.yahoo.com/west-bank-settler-violence-seen-rise-133023476.html

IDF Civil Administration pushing for land takeover in West Bank
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-civil-administration-pushing-for-land-takeover-in-west-bank-1.374564

Actual testimonies from Israeli soldiers and the way that they abuse, kill and commit war crimes against Palestinians.

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/database

It is worth posting this now and then to show the extent of Palestinians land stolen by Israel.

Israel PM guards tell women reporters to remove bras
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-pm-guards-tell-women-reporters-remove-bras-130352927.html

Was Norway's Terrorism Timed to Celebrate Israel's King David Hotel Attack?
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july232011/oslo-israel-tk.php

Was Norway's Terrorism Timed to Celebrate Israel's King David Hotel Attack?

No

Canadian student

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtAzm3dUB6M

This is from the Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=230762

'Norway attack suspect had anti-Muslim, pro-Israel views'

1,500 page manifesto credited to Breivik, accused of killing spree, lays out worldview including extreme screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism.

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who killed nearly 100 people in a combined terror attack Friday that included car bombings in Oslo and a shooting rampage at an island summer camp, held fiercely anti-Islamic and pro-Israel views, according to a 1,500 page manifesto he uploaded before his killing spree Friday.

In the 1,500-page tome, which mentions Israel 359 times and Jews 324 times, Breivik lays out his worldview, which includes an extreme, bizarre and rambling screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism and venomous attacks on Marxism and multi-culturalism.

off subject . very interesting read about the killer in norway .
the west is being taken over by people who just want evry thing for
doing nothing to idle to make there own country better ,
beggars .it is time for the west to act

623000 immigrants on hand outs in england alone .
and have never worked .

SHITTY 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 s 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& nbsp; 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.


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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.





Israels $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 Israel has the largest number of start-up 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.< /span>




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 Israel 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 per cent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland and 12 per cent 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 and Moses) 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 newbooks.

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 ... &nbs p;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.

Israels Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, 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 heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.

Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technici ans 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 county on earth.



AND THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND SAYS:



"ISRAEL IS NOTHING BUT A SHITTY LITTLE COUNTRY"



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can any one tell me if any muslim or a black person has ever
discovered anything for the better of man kind .to save and for the better
health of people

I makes absolutely no difference what Israel has done or achieved as they have done it on stolen land and in the blood of the land's rightful owners. It would be like praising the successes of the Nazis or Mussolini. It is an argument that has no credibility.

As far as muslims are concerned, our number system is Arabic and they were some of the greatest mathematicians in history. Of course we must not forget the Pyramids built by Egyptians.

As regards black people there are similar lists and there is The Black Inventors and Patent Holders List.

Here are a few muslims discoveries and inventions and all done on land they they did not steal. The complere list is far too extensive to post here.

Acetic acid: Jābir ibn Hayyān isolated acetic acid from vinegar.
Citric acid Jābir ibn Hayyān is also credited with the discovery and isolation of citric acid, the sour component of lemons and other unripe fruits.
Nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid: The mineral acids nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid were first isolated by Jābir ibn Hayyān. He originally referred to sulfuric acid as the oil of vitriol.]
Tartaric acid: Jābir ibn Hayyān isolated tartaric acid from wine-making residues.

The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.

Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today.

Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim.

Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.

The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.

The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi's book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi's discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.

By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.