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Why Israel Could Be the Next Cybersecurity World Power
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."
Way to oversimplify a very complex geo-political situation.
First you have a nation that is in the the area considered a holy land for the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Jewish religion was first there, then Christianity branched off from it. Then Muslim was a way to try to merge the two back together. So they all have claim to say this area is their roots. The facts about the religions isn't as much of an issue, but the differences in cultures that rooted from people with the religions. The Jewish population is largely from Christian europe so culturally the Jewish and Christians are rather similar. The Muslims are more from the middle east and north Africa. So there are two different cultures meeting in the middle as Israel is the center point between Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa.
After WWII the Jewish were given Israel, kinda like a double edge blade, to make reparations for the holocaust, and because most of the populations were still so anti-semitic that they didn't want them in their own back door. So they chose Israel as it wasn't controlled by a major power. So we have a group of people who had suffered a hard time, moving to an area where the existing population really didn't want them there anyways, but being backed by large superpowers meant they had more power. When your group is in power, you will try to expand your cultural values. This causes more conflict on the area.
Because of the conflict both sides are feeling that the other are against them, so they preemptive position themselves to protect against the other, which then creates more conflict.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
While this may certainly be true, it does not ameliorate the fact that the notion of a Jewish *state* is inherently and inescapably racist.
1) Race != Religion. ( 'the hell are mods thinking these days?)
2) The context of the time: Millions of your fellow worshippers were just slaughtered wholesale because of their religion, no one lifted a hand to stop it until it threatened them, and now that it's over no one really gives a shit about you. Meanwhile at least one superpower (the USSR) is still actively hunting down what few Jews live in their borders. Yeah, fuck that. Time to find a place where we can at least stand up for ourselves, and hey - the British promised that such a place was available in one of their colonial holdings, and BTW, that place happens to be your ancestral homeland! Makes perfect fucking sense in light of all that...
3) Vatican City is a nation-state based on one religion - not much racism going on there. No one complains about that because their 'army' (if you want to call it that) is on loan from Switzerland, and they're not surrounded by folks from an opposing religion who are actively out to eliminate them (quite the opposite, actually).
4) Regarding: Denying this would necessarily lead to acceptance of an Aryan state - you forgot one small detail: If 1930's Germany had stayed within their pre-existing borders, they could've had this alleged "Aryan" state with the world's indifferent blessing.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
The company I work for hired a few security consultants from GE that were based out of Isreal to conduct a cybersecurity training seminar, and holy shit. These guys definitely knew what they were talking about. Easily one of the most valuable training seminars I have ever attended.
Inside of Israel proper is a democracy with almost full equality and an Arab Israeli population who is not only keeping up with Israelis overall rapidly increasing standard of living but gaining ground. The Gazans have 0 Jews among them. They live in misery after the withdrawal because they have been unwilling to live in peace. Most of the West Bank is arguably a military dictatorship on issues of defense. But even here the areas that Israel inhabits has very little Palestinians population. The population centers where the Palestinians live (Areas A and B) are self governing.
Israel is not an apartheid state. People just like to make up crap about Jews.