Aside from the fact that your moral compass has obviously eroded and is in severe need of replacement, and (biased) politics aside, Israel has been at the forefront of technological and biomedical development for sixty years. If you were to truly boycott Israel, I say go for it! I really do support you in that endeavor. Truly. But only if you commit to boycotting *everything* from Israel. And the first thing to go will be your computers, if you use a PC, because Israel developed the Intel chip, among others. You can also say goodbye to drugs that effectively treat cancer and alzheimer's, among many others. What kind of advances has Islam contributed to society, may I ask? What kind of advances do you think a Hamas-run state would contribute to humanity? Here is a link to an excellent article about an Israeli boycott, and below I will list some more products you will have to forego if you choose to boycott Israel. And if you still decide you'd like to boycott them, I will happily tell you do go and do so, and don't dare touch or enjoy a single thing to come out of Israel.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00027.htm
* Two of the world's most widely used multiple-sclerosis drugs, Copaxone and Rebif, developed from research carried out at Weizmann Institute of Science.
* A biological control for mosquitoes and black flies that cause malaria and river blindness, saving the sight and lives of millions of people in Africa and China, developed by a scientist at Ben-Gurion
* A highly effective drug Exelon for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and dementia
* Velcade, an effective new cancer drug that treats multiple myeloma, is based on research by two Technion-Israel Institute of Technology professors
* BioPetroClean, developed by Tel Aviv University, a safe environmentally-friendly technology for cleaning oil spills in seas around the globe
* Proneuron Biotechnologies, an Israeli company, is developing a therapy for Parkinson's with support from the Michael J. Fox Foundation
* An Israeli scientific team from the Technion has succeeded in creating in the laboratory beating heart tissue from human embryonic stem cells
* Researchers at the Hebrew University and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have isolated the protein that triggers stress in order to try to treat post-traumatic stress syndrome
* The Pentium NMX Chip was designed at Intel in Israel. Both the Pentium 4 microprocessor and the Centrum processor were designed, developed and produced in Israel
* Most of the Windows operating systems was developed by Microsoft-Israel, as was voice mail technology
* Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel, attracted by the high quality of engineers
Perhaps, east bay jon, but it's also phrased as a question and I welcome any answers from boycott suporters who'd like to answer it. ;-)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00027.htm
* Two of the world's most widely used multiple-sclerosis drugs, Copaxone and Rebif, developed from research carried out at Weizmann Institute of Science.
* A biological control for mosquitoes and black flies that cause malaria and river blindness, saving the sight and lives of millions of people in Africa and China, developed by a scientist at Ben-Gurion
* A highly effective drug Exelon for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and dementia
* Velcade, an effective new cancer drug that treats multiple myeloma, is based on research by two Technion-Israel Institute of Technology professors
* BioPetroClean, developed by Tel Aviv University, a safe environmentally-friendly technology for cleaning oil spills in seas around the globe
* Proneuron Biotechnologies, an Israeli company, is developing a therapy for Parkinson's with support from the Michael J. Fox Foundation
* An Israeli scientific team from the Technion has succeeded in creating in the laboratory beating heart tissue from human embryonic stem cells
* Researchers at the Hebrew University and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have isolated the protein that triggers stress in order to try to treat post-traumatic stress syndrome
* The Pentium NMX Chip was designed at Intel in Israel. Both the Pentium 4 microprocessor and the Centrum processor were designed, developed and produced in Israel
* Most of the Windows operating systems was developed by Microsoft-Israel, as was voice mail technology
* Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel, attracted by the high quality of engineers
Perhaps, east bay jon, but it's also phrased as a question and I welcome any answers from boycott suporters who'd like to answer it. ;-)