You probably won't see something like this emerging from the Palestinians anytime soon:
Alzheimer's disease is degenerative and leads to a collapse of brain functions. A new Israeli computer program attempts to slow down deterioration in patients' brains.
The computerized system, which was developed by students from the engineering faculty at Ben-Gurion University, projects images, sounds, and texts from the patient's past and stimulates him to remember past events.
The computer system, which is designed for the use of patients and their families, includes a computer and touch-screen monitor installed with information from the patient's life; when operating it patients can view and react to images, sounds, and texts. The system was developed by two students, Moshe Barel and Yoni Epstein.
That may be because they're so busy doing this:
Two Israeli teenage girls escaped a kidnapping attempt Thursday at a hitchhiking post located at the Rahelim Junction in Samaria.
An initial investigation carried out by the IDF revealed that three Palestinians from Jenin arrived by car to the bus station and tried forcing the girls into the car at gunpoint.
The two resisted and one of the girls, 15-year-old Emuna Shachar of Jerusalem, sustained light injuries as a result. The gunmen were apprehended following a pursuit carried out by IDF forces.
By the way, I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to be that, in Israel, hitchhiking was an entirely acceptable way to get around. It's not a foolish activity, for the most part. And indeed, you'll notice that the article refers to a "hitchhiking post" — a sort of official stopping spot.
I know that the anti-Israel contingent will happily tell me that the intellectual stultification that characterizes the West Bank is all Israel's fault (indeed, as we're hearing regularly, everything is all Israel's fault). I don't buy that. The Palestinians have had money pouring into them from the whole world, all of which seems to have vanished into suitcases. Not only that, Israel has moved into the top tiers of science despite being a country perpetually, and without cessation, under seige since her inception in 1948. It's just that, while Palestians have chosen to pour their whole beings into malice and death-dealing, Israelis have opted to live. It's quite a difference, and those who are hostile to Israel and embrace the Palestinians may want to consider this difference for a few minutes. (Those on the Left may also want to consider Islamic malice to homosexuals, an attitude that is sure to exist in the increasingly Islamically militant Left, er, West Bank.)
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The people are worse than the ones saying it is Israel’s fault, are the ones who say it is the fault of both. I do not refer to moral equivalency, although that is relevant. Rather, I point out that the people who blame both sides for “inculcating a cycle of violence” as depicted and engineered by the world media. They blame both sides because they blame Palestinian attacks on Palestine and see the utter futility of strike backs commenced by Israel, therefore they feel fatigued and feel that there is no hope for either side. Fatigue and demoralization, secondary goals of any successful propaganda operation.
The reason why I believe they are worse, is because their attitude and philosophy actually contributes to the cycle of violence, by preventing one side or the other from attaining advantage and therefore winning and concluding the conflict. If you’ve ever seen a siege, then you would know that disease and starvation kills far more people than actual conflict. It is not the actual conflict that is doing the damage in the Me. It is the stalemate. A stalemate that the Palestinians are incapable of breaking, and of which Israel is unwilling to break precisely because the Israelis (as a general whole civilian pop) do not hate Palestinians.
It becomes hard to destroy that which you do not hate.
A lot of people say that Left and Right doesn’t describe people’s politics accurately. Their problem is that they don’t realize the metaphysics of the situation. Politics is not a spectrum of colors where you go form ultraviolet to infrared and never the twain shall meet. Politics is a global phenomen, and in that sense if you go far enough Left, you’ll hit the far right.
This is how socialists helped Hitler and Mussolini acquire power. Those dictators did not move to the “moderate” majority to get elected, they just kept going Left, Left, Radical Left, until they reached a spot where they had enough violence and power to initiate a regime that they would desire to uphold (becoming Right-conservative).
People like David Duke, go enough RIght, and you’ll hit the Left, like former KKK wizard Robert Byrd did.