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Why Israel Could Be the Next Cybersecurity World Power

Posted by Soulskill on from the necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention dept.

jfruh writes: Beersheba is a small town in southern Israel, more than an hour's drive away from Tel Aviv and the bulk of the country's population. But the city is a hotbed of cybersecurity startups driven in part by a graduate program at the local university and the country's military and intelligence apparatus's keen interest in the subject. "To become such a cyber nexus, any place has to have several ingredients: A great university with a solid computer science department with a penchant for security research. Check. Several industry partners who have set up their own research and innovation laboratories nearby, to take advance of the cheap labor pool of graduate students. Check. An active venture capitalist operation that can fund startups is also essential, along with mentors who can help entrepreneurs along. Double check. And finally some solid support for local and national government to grease the wheels of progress. Check."

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  1. Free Occupied Palestine by ikhider · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stop interning the Palestinian populace. Allow the Palestinians to have their land back as per UN Resolutions. Let them have freedom of mobility, the chance to build a viable economy and rights as a regular citizen, not a second class citizen. No justice, no peace.

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    1. Re:Free Occupied Palestine by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Let's make it really simple. The Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza can have their autonomy when they grant Israel theirs. That seems to be a very basic first step that the Arabs find completely impossible.

    2. Re:Free Occupied Palestine by halivar · · Score: 4, Insightful

      More importantly: don't start wars you can't win (a universal and timely maxim). And when, having chosen to decide the contest on the field of battle, do not expect a redo in the courts of law. The biggest mistake the Palestinians every made was letting their regional neighbors (that hate them anyway, btw) egg them into starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They lost their land, and the Jewish population swelled from expulsion from Arab countries. They had a two-state solution already and they fucked it up.

    3. Re:Free Occupied Palestine by allcoolnameswheretak · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think the problem might have to do with the fact that Hamas has repeatedly stated that it will never accept the state of Israel.

      I am not a fan of Israels "foreign policy" towards Palestine, especially the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, it's hard to argue with someone who says he will never accept and will always fight you.

      On the other, other hand, Israel has been nurturing this sentiment towards it for decades by indiscriminately leveling buildings and killing dozens of Palestinians every time some idiots fire a mostly useless rocket over the border.

      Basically, both sides are being jerks and feeding the hatred towards each other. This is how far "eye for an eye" will get you.

    4. Re:Free Occupied Palestine by danbob999 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But the Hamas is not Palestine. I am sure there are some radical groups in Israel who promised to never recognize Palestine. In fact the Israeli government never recognized Palestine so their position is not that far from the one of the Hamas.
      Palestine recognized Israel in 1993. It's now Israel's turn to recognize Palestine.

    5. Re:Free Occupied Palestine by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Another fact that is often ignored: The Arab states could have absorbed the Palestinians who fled Israel when they were told "flee and you can have your land back when we wipe Israel off the map." Instead, they set them up in refugee camps so they could point to them and say "Look at how horrible our brethren have it. This is all Israel's fault. Keep looking at these downtrodden folks and ignore the horrible things we're doing to our own populace."

      I'm not saying Israel is blameless (far from it), but the people who try to claim that the conflict in the region is all Israel's fault vastly oversimplify the entire situation.

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  2. Re:Sounds about right by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, after about 70 posts that are either anti-semitic/israeli trolls or troll counter-trolls, we finally get our first post that addresses the actual article topic. Slashdot's set a new record.