Here is my third and final medical analysis of the
pointlessness and futility of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
crazies who target Israeli goods and services.
(For those who wish to be reminded of parts one and two, they can be
read here
and here.) Again, please remember that all my examples
are taken from news items that were published only in the last 4.5
months. If I included all the
medical work that Israel was doing, this article would run to hundreds of
thousands of words.
I proved previously that BDS-ers have no heart, brains or
spine – otherwise why would they boycott the country that is developing
treatments for those areas of the body.
Now I suggest that the whole BDS idea is not only wrong - it is
nonsense. There is no sense whatsoever
in boycotting a country that is working on restoring the senses of millions of
people.
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Have they not heard that Tel Aviv University Professor Karen
Avraham has discovered the reason for genetic hearing
loss?
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Have they lost sight of the benefit of Israel Technion’s
research into substituting damaged
retinas with a new area of the eye that has been turned into
photoreceptors?
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Did they not read
that US President Obama’s step-grandmother underwent emergency
eye treatment at an Israeli-run
hospital in Equatorial Guinea?
Would-be boycotters:
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Do not
have the guts to admit that Israeli research into colon disease is the
best in the world. Israel’s BiolineRX’s
BL-7040 oral treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) could bring relief to
1.4 million individuals in the US alone.
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Obviously cannot
stomach the fact that scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have
discovered at the cellular level how the gut’s immune system maintains a
healthy balance.
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Will be really “down
in the mouth” when they realise their doctors cannot use the video and
endoscope system from Israel’s Peer Medical.
I wish the BDS crowd would grow up:
It is the end of the line for childless BDS-ers who boycott
Israel’s innovative fertility treatments.
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Cytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI) developed in
2004 by Benjamin Bartoov of Israel’s Bar-Ilan University is at the core of the
recently opened IVF
centers in New Delhi.
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A research team from Israel’s Technion has produced human
eggs using cells from the amniotic sac that surrounds a baby in the
womb. Experts believe that donation of
the amniotic sac will be more acceptable than egg donation from fertile women –
but not to BDS-ers.
Life is just too complicated for BDS-ers:
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And they
should end it all, now that they know three Israelis invented the
science of Biogerontology (the study of longevity and the aging process) and
that Israel recently hosted the eighth European Congress of Biogerontology.
The despicable BDS-ers cannot have any wish to save
life.
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They would have added to the
deaths of those murdered in the Boston
Marathon bombings through refusing Israel’s help train Boston medical
staff for a mass-casualty event.
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They have no pity for the Boston children who would have been permanently
scarred but for the post-trauma
help from the Israel
Trauma Coalition.
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They would rather say “Roger and Out” to reducing
emergency response times with
the innovative call centre system from Israel’s NowForce, now operating in
Missouri or to any training
with Magen David Adom – Israel’s emergency first response service.
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They would happily switch off Israel’s EarlySense “under the
mattress” patient vital
signs monitoring system currently being distributed to hospitals across
the United States.
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They would tell you to hand back your Oxitone wrist-worn
blood-oxygen monitor that warns of any sudden
deterioration in an “at risk” patient’s condition.
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No sweat to them that more Africans have to die from tropical
diseases rather than allow Ben Gurion University students to carry out
an extensive educational medical and sanitation program in Ethiopia.
The warped world that the BDS-ers inhabit has no desire:
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To
cure measles; the US National Institutes of Health wants Ben-Gurion
University to discover why the measles virus persists
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To recognise Downs Syndrome;
Israel and Singapore established World Down Syndrome Day in 2006 and over 400
participants attended this year’s event at Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
in April.
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To
cure autism; Osnat Zomer-Penn received the L’Oréal-UNESCO “Women in
Science” prize for determining its genetic basis.
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To
treat osteo-arthritis; Moebius’s injectable solution was demonstrated
at US road shows in February.
Finally, ALEH - Israel’s largest network of facilities for
children with severe cognitive and physical disabilities - has pioneered a virtual
reality (VR) facility to allow their residents to go on occasional
field trips in simulated environments.
BDS-ers, however, live permanently in a Virtual world. I advise them all to undergo cognative
therapy until they can recognise the real world in which Israeli medical
innovations are indispensable.
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