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Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice
dudeman2 writes "Israel National News reports that The Israel Finance Ministry said Sunday it will begin distributing Open Office for free as of next week. The ministry said that it would begin to distribute thousands of Open Office CD-ROMs at public computer centers and later on at community centers throughout the country, 'in a bid to reduce the technological gap between the rich and poor in Israel'."
Free Open Office??
Im going to Israel and stock up on these puppies and make tons of money selling it on Ebay like these guys.
Name dropper. I just had lunch with Reuven Rivlin...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
You son (daughter) of a bitch!
Maybe he was fed up with the innane questions from reporters and wanted to get back to playing TuxRacer!
In fact they occupied territories essentially since the beginning of Israel. To a large extent Israel is all occupied territory. There were always palestinians that lived there and then the jews show up and say "hey UN, could you make this land ours?" and the UN was like "yeah no prob, don't worry about the people already there though, just treat them like second class citizens." so the israeli jews did. You know the iraeli arabs have special license plates that denote that they are arab? these are people born and raised in israel. that sounds so fair to me.
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Yes I can come up with lots of examples. South America. Most countries. Last 50 years. The US has overthrown a lot of democratically elected governments who were a long way from "attacking" anyone.
... in the meantime you might want to read up on all the children killed today by cancer due to the US using depleted uranium weapons (creating a very toxic dust).
Can you tell me, since both Jews and Arabs are semites, why you bring up "anti semitic" when what I wrote has absolutely nothing to do with semites - only with the racist and occupant nation of Israel?
PS: Please let me know when you find any WMDs in Iraq. We're eagerly awaiting those finds
it's in my head
I'm not talking about Jews - I'm talking about the state of Israel and what its doing though. As long as you're unable to separate those two things you're better of keeping silent. At the moment you're just looking stupid.
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Do you know how many UN resolutions Israel is ignoring/has ignored? Compare that to Iraq
it's in my head
Iraq
Vietnam
Korea
Afganistan
Panama
Peru
And well, is it not easy to call every one
arguing about Israel anti-semitic?
You that have so much knowledge of history
should know that the palestinians are a semitic
people.
Others have already posted a list of countries - I don't need to name one (there are lots).
You cannot find any actual democracy overthrown
On the contrary, I can find several. Maybe you should learn something about your own history.
ok up the meaning if antisemite. If it makes you feel any better, you are anti-Jewish.
No, I'm anti-religion. I couldn't care less about which religion people are practising. I do care about nations committing crimes though - which is what the state of Israel is doing.
WMD's were only one of many valid reasons for retaliating against Saddam's aggression.
No, the US promised me lots of WMDs. Now show them.
Aggression? The only aggressive country I've seen lately is the US. Why should several thousand innocent Afghani peasants have to die because bin Laden _lived_ in the same country as they did?
What about if he had lived next door to your parents? Would you be ok with the US bombing them then?
it's in my head
You need to read up a little more on your history of Israel/Palestine. Check out: http://www.palestinefacts.org/ for a very good history of conflict with footnotes to the sources.
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I've replied on this before /. not bring stories from Aruz7. What's next? Al-Jazeera?
I really wish
Slashdot editors, do your site a favor and don't link up to Aruz7 - it just looks rediculous and weird.
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Ariel's got bigger problems then a bunch of russians copying office...
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Still better than the Goat.cx attachments I keep getting...
WTF? Over?
Can you come up with one example where the U.S. was not retaliating? Probably not.
Given that the U.S. have never been invaded: retaliate for what?? For not conforming to U.S. ideas of how the entire world should do their bidding?
Never mind history, start with a dictionary and look up "invasion" and "retaliation".
The U.S. acts internationally with all the aggressive zeal of a Jehovah's Witness at your door, and smarts and subtlety to match (that is, zero). With a vast military arsenal to back them up, and little to no compunctions about using it. "Why do they hate us so", sheesh it's bloody obvious innit?
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Be faithful to your obsessions. Identify them and be faithful to them, let them guide you like a sleepwalker. JG Ballard
Like firebombing entire civilian populations of large cities? Ever heard of Dresden.
As for the Neo-Nazi comment. FUCK YOU! Disliking the actions of Israel and hating jews is completely different. Nice ad hominem attack though. Should I accuse you of being racist against Arabs and South-east Asians now.
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