Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: il terribile isolamento di Israele

http://www.theettingerreport.com/Overseas-Investments/Israel-Isolated--Israel-Embraced-by-the-Investment.aspx
 
 
Walking the (pro-Israel) walk supersedes talking the (anti-Israel)
talk. The following data provides some background to Standard & Poor's
decision to upgrade Israel's credit rating to A+:
 
1.  ChemChina acquired Israel's Agan Machteshim Chemicals for $2.4BN -
$1.1BN in cash and $1.27BN in a non recourse loan (Globes, Oct. 18,
2011). Israel Electric Company will establish a $1.3BN solar energy
plant in China, 25% owned by a Chinese partner (Globes, Oct. 10). The
London-based Permira Private Equity negotiates the acquisition of 55%
of Israel's Netafim for $450MN (Globes, September 22).  The Chicago-
based GTCR Private Equity acquired Israel's FundTech for $388MN
(Globes, Sept. 19). Intel acquired Israel's TeleMap for $300MN
(Globes, October 2).  The Arris Group acquired Israel's BigBand for
$172MN in cash (Globes, October 12). Tyco International acquired
Israel's ViSonic for $99.5MN (Globes, Sept. 16).  E-Bay acquired
Israel's The Gifts project for $25MN, its 4th Israel acquisition since
2005 (Globes, Sept. 12). The E-storage giant, EMC, acquired Israel's
ZettaPoint for $10MN, its 5th Israeli acquisition since 2006 (Globes,
Oct. 2).  Twitter acquired Israel's Julpan (Globes, September 23).
 
2.  The Hong Kong-based Li Ka Shing's Horizons Ventures, the Malaysia-
based Joshua Lim's Jfund and the Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins
Caufied & Byers invested $30MN in Israel's Waze (Globes, Oct. 19).
The Menlo Park-based Menlo Ventures, Eric Schmidt (Google's CEO),
Michael Arrington (founder of the Silicon Valley's TechCrunch) and
Troy Carter (founder of Coalition Media Group) invested $15MN in
Israel's Shaker (Globes, Oct. 11). The Menlo Park-based Sequoia
Partners and India's Northwest Venture Partners invested $11MN in
Israel's Ravello (Globes, Sept. 27). The NYC-based OrbiMed, the Boston-
based Oxford Bioscience Partners and the Mansfield, MA-based Covidien
Ventures invested $11MN in Israel's SuperDimension (Globes, Sept.
14).  The Menlo Park-based Khosla Ventures, Eric Schmidt's Innovation
Endeavors, the Menlo Park-based Bessemer Venture Partners, the NYC-
based IA Ventures and the San Francisco-based Founders Fund invested
$10MN in Israel's BillGuard (Globes, Oct. 19).  Harbin (China)
municipality and Israel-China Infinity Fund invest $10MN in ten
Israeli start ups (Globes, Oct. 11). US VC funds invested $8MN in
Israel's Motus GI (Globes, Oct. 6). The Boston-based Battery Ventures
and the Holland-based Gimv NV co-led a $10MN 2nd round of private
placement in Israel's ActivePath (Globes, Sept. 20). The Menlo Park-
based Sequoia Partners led a $9MN investment in Israel's Mintigo
(Globes, Sept. 20). The $1.7BN Italy's Sorin invested $7MN in Israel's
EnoPace (Globes, Oct. 18). Hong Kong's Li Ka Shing invested $5.5MN in
Israel's Magisto (Sept. 21).  Microsoft invests $1.5MN in a joint E-
Commerce 5 years project with Israel's Technion, Israel's Institute of
Technology (Globes, Oct. 10).
 
3.  Notwithstanding the anti-Israel policy of Turkey's ruling Islamist
party, the Israel-Turkey trade balance during the first half of 2011
reached $2.35BN (Israeli export - $1.1BN, Turkey export – $1.25BN),
compared with $3.1BN during the entire 2010 (Sept. 5).  The scope of
Israel-Singapore trade balance was $1BN, trending upward (Globes, Aug.
31).

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A proposito di frutti del sionismo e dell'antisionismo, come va il rating
dei bond di Hamas e di Assad?
 
-- 
recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant