So...now the Anglicans are thinking of joining their fellow Christians, the Presbyterians and United Church of Christ and others to divest from Israel. 
 
Great!  Instead of us whining about this, signing petitions begging them not to do so——help the potential divestors with their plot. Inform them of the following technological and/or medical advances of the Israelis.  And then check out all the other Israeli innovations——too numerous to mention here——so as to be able to divest from them as well.
 
And then add all the Jews, just a minute percentage of the human population, who have contributed so much to the world and support(ed) Israel.  Einstein for instance.  He was a big supporter of pre—state Israel, then called  Palestine. Yeah, that Palestine, the real Jewish one, before the name change to Israel.
 
All of this must be divested.  All.

No cheating though!  All those divestors and their allies cannot pick and choose——divest from all or divest from none. 
 
Those who divest from all will hopefully be incommunicado until they die—— (not making use of Jewish medicine) probably soon. 
 
Those who read the highly selective list of innovations brought to the world by Israeli brains and choose to continue making use of them to enhance their lives and not divest from Israel must now shut up!  But first, the divestor wannabes  must do concrete acts of forgiveness——donating $1000 a year for the remainder of your life to the United Jewish Communities Israel campaign is a good start. 
 
Can't or won't do it?  Tough——join the total divestors and disappear.

Ethel C. Fenig   6 27 05
 
 
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to the following:
 
A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the Clear Light device, produces a high—intensity, ultraviolet—light—free, narrow—band blue light that causes acne bacteria  to self—destruct —— all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
 
Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no—radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
 
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment.   Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
 
Israel's Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, cancer and digestive disorders.
 
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the camera helps doctors diagnose heart's mechanical  operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
 
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
 
Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft—Israel.
 
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
 
Both the Pentium—4 microprocessor and the Centurion processor were 
entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
 
The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.
 
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
 
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
 
The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis
 
There is much, much more.