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AMD Opens Israeli R&D Center, Hints At ARM Link
siliconbits writes "We've learnt that AMD will open a new research and development center in Israel in the Tel-Aviv area, one which will be built around Graphic Remedy, the small startup they purchased in September 2010 and which specialises in development tools for heterogeneous computing and 3D graphics. Although the chip company hasn't published any press releases yet, the news is a clear indication that AMD sees its future (and its survival) in a more fragmented market where x86 is no longer the dominating platform."
I don't get it.
It's just another bombastic claim Palestinian sympathizers use to garner support from naive liberals, anti-zionists and anti-semites. It's a stupid analogy, but that's all they have. Well, that and their terrorism, but here in the US we've finally started to frown on that.
s/South Africa/Israel/
s/white/Israeli Jews/
s/black/Palestinian/
s/the majority/roughly half the population/
s/small number/politically dominant quasi-racial class/
s/20th century/20th and 21st centuries/
s/1980s/present/
s/banned in 1994/not yet banned/
The term Apartheid is not employed by Israel, which apparently wants to enjoy the propaganda coup of "democracy" while employing much of the same institutional policies that South Africa employed under the Apartheid regime. But the comparison is mostly apt, which has been recognized by former South African Apartheid leaders and resisters alike. There are some areas where the comparison breaks down, but those areas aren't particularly flattering to Israel; the most obvious difference being that, while Apartheid South Africa depended on black labor and exploited it in much the same way the US depends on migrant labor, Israel has shed a great deal of its dependence on Palestinian labor, leaving the population not just imprisoned under the rule of another people, but almost totally stripped of any kind of economic existence or leverage with which to improve their conditions.
There are other, probably more apt, comparisons available, but they tend to be just as controversial among those who take Israel's claims to be a "democracy" and so forth at face value. The most obvious is to the countless precedents of (settler and imperial) colonialism, and here the comparisons don't break down at all... except in the minor areas that they differ among themselves. It's probably wiser, in the long run, to expose the colonialist system itself for what it is, and to put Apartheid, too, in that context. But the use of Apartheid as a frame of reference remains relevant, as the systems are incredibly similar.
How can you be a "democracy" when you deny full status to non-Jews?
BTW: There is no historical or archaeological validation for " a first temple" or a "David and Solomon" or any other fairy-tale that is used to justify this supposed "promised land". The whole Moses story is entirely un-validated through any reading of the historical record, either from Egypt or their contemporary states.
But the Mormons insist that the American Natives were dislocated tribes of Israel, to whom Jesus sent his message, after the resurrection.
So I guess people will swallow any kind of horse shit - instead of actually treating each other as loved creations by God.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."