Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Virtually, There Are No Borders

L'elemosina che la merdaglia sionista estorce agli USA sarebbe ben poca 
cosa rispetto a quello che Israele potrebbe avere se facesse a meno 
della prima per liberarsi della seconda.
 
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Virtually, There Are No Borders
By Pierre Klochendler
 
RAMALLAH, Oct 30, 2011 (IPS) - Israeli entrepreneurs dream of a region 
without borders. Given their country's remoteness from its vicinity, 
that's a natural need. It's a dream also nurtured by their Palestinian 
counterparts, and a national necessity given their own encirclement by 
Israel. That's where high-tech comes into play…
 
At 88, Shimon Peres is Israel's entrepreneur par excellence. Architect 
of the Oslo agreement signed with the Palestine Liberation Organisation 
in 1993, the Israeli President has a political vision, that of a "New 
Middle East" at peace with itself.
 
The vision has not materialised, to say the least. Yet today, Peres 
'presides over' the start-up nation that Israel aspires to be. "Our 
economy is based on creativity, not on money," stresses the nation's 
elder. "The most careful thing is to dare," he keeps saying.
 
That's good economics, but poor politics, notes a representative of the 
start-up generation. "We've had leaders that were going ahead of their 
people. Now it's the other way around," proclaims Erel Margalit, founder 
of Jerusalem Venture Capital, a modern hub of investment in innovations 
that's home to a plethora of Israeli start-ups in the field of digital 
media.
 
"What kind of state do we want?" rhetorically asks the head-hunter of 
young innovators. "Do we want a state fortress, with big walls around 
us, or do we want an open state which cooperates with the rest of the 
region?"
 
Their country disconnected from the Middle East by its occupation of 
Palestine, their reputation shadowed by the Separation Wall running 
partly within the West Bank, Israeli start-uppers are trying to take up 
the presidential vision of a new Middle East to borderless horizons, 
those of the virtual world.
 
Take Yadim Kaufmann from Veritas for instance: partnered with a 
Palestinian businessman, the Israeli investor provides financing for 
Palestinian start-ups with a 30 million dollar venture capital fund. He 
found out that Palestinians and Israelis share much in common: "Very 
entrepreneurial people, smart, hard- working, ambitious – many of the 
characteristic of our hi-tech population. The Palestinians see us, they 
say, 'No reason why we can't do something similar.'"
 
Financial rewards notwithstanding, Kaufmann's initiative conjures up the 
sense of mission of Western developers – to help change people's life 
for the better: "Indeed, by helping solid, profitable business, we're 
acting for the well-being of the Palestinians," although, he notes, 
"that's not the fund's goal, not our charter.
 
"Still, it's definitely in our interest as Israelis that the Palestinian 
economy be viable and fast-growing." And, would this particular 
endeavour foster cooperation between the two peoples? "Obviously, that 
would be very nice. High-tech can be part of the answer," is Kaufmann's 
hope.
 
A subsidiary of the U.S. giant in Information and Communication 
Technology, Cisco-Systems Israel is a worldwide leader in networking for 
the Internet. Its design centre was established in the Israeli coastal 
town of Netanya 13 years ago with 25 employees.
 
Nowadays, the centre employs over 700 Israelis, including 500 R&D 
engineers, making it the multinational's second-largest design site 
(after India) outside the U.S.
 
Corporate Social Responsibility manager Zika Abzuk likes to believe that 
the reason for such exponential success stems from the fact that Israeli 
engineers "excel in innovation, teamwork and management. We have the 
ability to actually manage people globally," she boasts.
 
Last year, overcoming the exact same fear that global corporations have 
had with regard to investing into a conflict zone like Israel, Cisco 
established a 10 million dollar social investment fund managed by Abzuk, 
and aimed at helping develop the budding Palestinian high-tech industry.
 
Today, Cisco-Israel outsources R&D services for their business 
applications directly to three Palestinian start-ups established in 
Ramallah. The initiative turned out to be a profitable investment. 
Palestinian entrepreneurs couldn't agree more.
 
"Having a client like Cisco is certainly a milestone in our track record 
history," marvels Murad Tahboub, director general of Asal Technologies, 
at his company's business accomplishment. "We can pitch the 
international market and say, 'Look, we're a success story – not with, a 
medium-size company – with one of the top ten ICT multinationals.'"
 
Exalt Technologies CEO Taareq Maayah thinks highly of "the good level of 
direct teamwork with Cisco- Israel". Abzuk chimes in, somehow 
idealistically: "Working together for a common cause creates a new 
culture. Israelis and Palestinians can stop playing the zero-sum game."
 
The Israeli executive is in Ramallah to supervise a workshop. In April, 
Cisco joined forces with the Palestinian Authority to open a 
Cisco-funded Entrepreneur Institute Training Centre in the West Bank 
town managed by its Israeli branch.
 
This unusual collaboration brings training to aspiring Palestinian ICT 
entrepreneurs, enabling them to start and grow businesses in Palestine 
and beyond. "The opportunity of working in tandem with Israelis opens up 
markets other than in Israel. To us, it's an added value," explains 
Hassan Qassem, Chairman of the Palestine IT Association (PITA).
 
Gai Hetzroni is the Israeli manager of this joint project. "Once 
computers and communication lines are available, everything's 
borderless. That's why occupied nations, or closed nations, can produce 
software and send it out there to the world. No gates," he emphasises.
 
To believe PITA's executive director Abir Hazboun, ironically, 
Palestinian entrepreneurs have learned from Israelis how to turn a 
problem (imposed on them by Israel) into an asset: "Given the 
restrictions of movement – the Wall, the checkpoints, the closures, the 
lack of territorial continuity – our start-ups are usually stable. 
People simply can't leave their jobs and seek opportunities elsewhere."
 
So, can Israeli and Palestinian start-uppers start up a new beginning 
between Israelis and Palestinians in general? Cooperation under one 
multinational roof is one thing. Yet, the chance of these ICT innovators 
breaking borders of enmity and, literally, connecting their peoples is 
small. "The shame is that the politicians are good at stopping us." 
mutters Margalit. "We lack neither vision nor sense of mission, yet we 
painfully lack peace initiatives." (END)
 
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 della prima per liberarsi della seconda.
 
LOL, pensa invece come sono coglioni i palestinesi: hanno a due passi
la prima potenza economica e tecnologica dell'area, che bramerebbe la
manodopera palestinese e le possibilità d'investimento nel WB e a
Gaza.
 
E invece giù razzi, giù attentati, giù filmati con i passamontagna e
le fasce verdi, per poi piagnucolare che stanno di merda.
 
E agli israeliani tocca far venire i vietnamiti a lavorare in IL.
 

 E agli israeliani tocca far venire i vietnamiti a a lavorare in IL.
 
Ecco se questi sono i frutti dell'antisionismo, e il pirla evangelico da
questi è in grado di giudicare l'albero...
 
Come mai sta con la testa nella sabbia e il culo all'aria?
 
Sta cercando di arrotondare come portabici?
 
 
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Io non gufo l'Inter. Le spacco le corna.

 questi è in grado di giudicare l'albero...
 
In tutta la questione vedo però un vantaggio significativo per IL: le
vietnamiti sono fighe pazzesche. Anche culturalmente sono meno
problematiche.
 
 

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Agli americani crearono qualche problema.
Non molto diverso da quello delle ragazze arabe che ammazzano giovani
(rincoglioniti) israeliani, dopo averli attirati oltre la linea verde.
 
Ma ok, tra vietnam e israele non c'è nessun problema. Meglio così.
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 Ma ok, tra vietnam e israele non c'è nessun problema. Meglio così.
 
Eh sì: i vietnamiti ti fanno il culo, ma dopo che hanno vinto non si
fanno problemi a commerciare e non serbano molto rancore.

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poveri padroncini israeliani, che sono costretti a importare
vietnamiti, piuttosto che pagare stipendi decenti ai giovani
israeliani...
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/tens-of-thousands-amass-for-tel-aviv-social-protest-1.392638
 

Il 30/10/11 19.31, Finanziatore di Luca Logi ha scritto:
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C'è da dire che gli americani in Vietnam ci s'erano attirati da soli.
 
PP
 

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Sì, infatti. Ma ogni tanto saltavano in aria anche mentre si facevano
attrarre a tu per tu da qualche bellezza locale. Almeno così dice la mia
erudizione da film sulla questione.
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 israeliani...
 
Vietnamiti? Che ci vanno a fare in Israele? Non c'e` un paradiso
comunista da loro?

conveniva di più cenare fuori che in casa.