Last week we saw another suicidal attempt
by so-called “academics” to sever themselves from the Jewish State. The real
world, however, knows the true value of Israel’s life-enhancing innovations.
Whilst the American Studies Association was
voting itself into oblivion, Israel’s VBL Therapeutics announced the
development of the first of a new class of autoimmune
disease medicines called Lecinoxoids.
ASA pro-boycott members must therefore be hoping that they are all
immune from the likes of Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis,
and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It is
also crazy for the “brainy” scholars at the ASA to ignore Israel’s
groundbreaking neuroscience discoveries.
In contrast, Israel’s
Brain Technologies has just signed a partnership research agreement
with four US organizations with particular emphasis on Alzheimer's disease.
It is obvious that highbrow ASA
philosophers never look out of their ivory towers at the likes of Israel’s Circ
MedTech, which has just been selected by the United Nations and the Rwandan
government to help stop
the spread of AIDS / HIV in the African country. ASA eyes must also be so tightly shut that
they cannot see the image enhancement device developed by Israel’s MobileOCT
that could prevent up to a quarter of a million women from dying
of cervical cancer every year.
I hope that no ASA hypocrites are still
sneakily using their Israeli-powered smartphones and computers. I trust that they were all logged off when
Keepod presented its Israeli-developed
operating system at the Center for Global Dialogue and Cooperation in
Vienna. Keepod runs from any USB drive,
eliminating dependency on one physical computer. Keepod’s Unite project has the
potential to provide access to computers and the Internet to 5 billion people. Those “superior beings” in the ASA Executive
apparently cannot envisage anyone of lesser ability. So they must have been totally immobilized on hearing about
Accelerating Inclusion in Israel (A3i) - the first start-up accelerator for
hi-tech and social ventures that helps
people with disabilities become entrepreneurs.
We cannot expect any straight talking from
anti-Israel ASA members. They would
only be able to display crooked smiles if you spoke to them about the orthodontic
system developed by Israeli Aerodentis that straightens the teeth
during sleep, through the application of gentle pulsating force. And they could only offer a limp response
when presented with Israel’s Medic
Shoes that relieve the foot pain common in those suffering from
diabetes.
I would describe the ASA members that voted
to boycott Israel as “hospital cases”.
They should be collected immediately by an IDF medical team, such as the
one that rescued
a 10-year-old Palestinian Arab boy whose head was cut open following a
car accident. They should be transported
to the Western Galilee Hospital or Ziv Medical Center in northern Israel to
watch as Israel
treats (free of charge) the latest group of Syrians wounded in their
civil war. Alternatively, rush them to
Sheba Medical Center to see Israeli doctors operate on a 4-year-old Syrian boy
born with reversed ventricles. His Syrian father had a much
more intelligent reaction than the ASA when he said, “I am happy to
have met this country”.
We should put ASA BDS-ers onto one of the
hundreds of Israeli trucks that delivered
1.2 million liters of diesel into Gaza to restart its power
station. And then stand them just
outside the Hamas-controlled mini-state to watch as terrorists shoot
rockets at Israeli civilians in
gratitude. We should parachute
drop ASA BDS supporters into the Philippines to
join Israel’s RADWIN which has just donated equipment to help
re-establish communications networks in areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan
(Yolanda). Personally, I would have
liked to shoot ASA BDS supporters into space on the Gaia project’s European
Space Agency rocket. They would then be
the first to hear about the new planets soon to be discovered by the Israeli
scientists working on the project.
But perhaps we should be generous and
mindful that when trying to understand the Jewish State, anti-Israel members of
the ASA suffer from a complete mental block.
To that end, I suggest we send in AcousticEye. The Israeli pipeline diagnostic company gave an impressive
demonstration at Tel Aviv’s recent WATEC water technology conference, of its unique
system to detect
defects, cracks, holes and blockages.
My quote of the week comes from the UK’s
leading travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, which spotlighted Tel Aviv
recently in its “Insider Tips” section.
It highlights “Tel Aviv’s creative energy and joie de vivre”. “Such
positive energy is rare to find, and a pure joy to experience.” And in the next
sentence it sounded a message that could be waved in front of all superficial
anti-Israel academics. “This is a place where ideas are transformed into
reality - where
people enact their dreams rather than just talking about them.”
Now that is intelligent thinking!
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