You have not been reading what I sent. The Israeli leaders admit that they had no expectation that Egypt would invade.

And oh the usual "anti-semite" slur!

And 435 survived because of shelter and assistance by their Arab neighbours.

Well yes I do know about the "rich Jewish archaeological history of Jewish civilization" do you? have you read Ilan Pappe?

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/mqumsiyeh2.htm

And read this:

http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/1494

It is almost certain that many of the Palestinians are descendants of the (Jewish) occupants of
Palestine in the 1st century of the modern era who converted to Islam.
Do you know about Palestinian culture or do you believe that Palestine was a "land without people for a people without land"?

The Jews are not a race - they are a religious group.
There is a human race - I believe that there is no reasonable definition of "race" that accords the term to Jews - or to Arabs for that matter.

When was Israel invaded multiple times? The surrounding Arab countries reacted to the Zionist persecution of the local population when Israel was set up.

But if you read the history Israel precipitated the war then and used it to obtain more territory.

http://www.representativepress.org/Sources.html

Israel precipitated the 1967 war.
http://www.gregfelton.com/middle/2007_06_07.htm
Egypt and Syria invaded Israeli occupied Sinai and Golan Heights. On no occasion was Israel "almost destroyed".

Let's see your land invaded (by Israel - the Middle Eastern superpower). And I'd be surprised if it responds in a warm fuzzy fashion.

Well yes of course you are right - in part. But time is not the only thing that sets Israel apart. It also seems to be alone in continually
whining and expecting the international community to provide sympathy and, in the case of the US, military and financial support when the natives strike back. If it is operating on the principle that might is right it should be consistent about it.

Israeli forces targeting civilians? This post is just the Israeli government sophistry.

Would you tell us how many Israelis have been killed since, let us say, September 2000?

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/deaths.html

Of course that is not the official Israeli government figure so you may not accept it.

Read the Goldstone report. Of course Israel targeted civilians including a UN School! Why does Israel not have a proper judicial investigation of the allegations in that report.

In any case in the situation that the Palestinians find themselves in in Gaza would not everyone join the resistance.

David Ben Gurion 1970: "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel."

Another vote for squeezebox, I tried the roku system earlier but squeezebox is simpler to set up and use. I now have two classic squeezeboxes and about to buy a third. My music (in flac) is mirrored on two hard drives hanging off an old laptop running linux. I use existing amplifiers and speakers. I can access either by the remote control or squeezecenter - again running under linux.

As a professor, I am well aware that evaluation in colleges and universiities is a flawed concept. In my country all universities are not-for-profit non-governmental organisations, though they rely on government funding on a per-student basis for local (non-overseas students). However the key economic drivers are that these colleges have an enormous administrative overhead that is not based on student numbers, and that departments/schools are funded according to their student numbers after this administrative overhead is taken out. As a result departments - with pressure from central - try to retain students from one year to the next. Failing a student at the end of year 1 means that that student is not going to take year 2. Both at central level - to keep funding the admin - and at department level there is an incentive to pass students. As a result far more students are "accredited" as knowing a subject than should be the case. As funding levels drop the incentive to pass more students increases. While these kinds of economic drivers rule there is no reason that any employer should take the final transcript seriously.

Then what's powering this http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/how-fcx-works.aspx

I was at a major technology conference last week. Wireless access was available throughout the venue. I walked over to a large table in the poster room carrying my (nearly new) laptop with ubuntu installed. Seated at the table was someone working on an identical machine. I sat down, opened my laptop, connected to the internet, read and wrote several emails and, 20 minutes later, rose to leave. As I did, a friend of the person opposite came over to him and asked: "Did you get online yet?" The seated person answered: "No - still having trouble!" I made a remark, "I had no problem and we're using the same machines". His response was, "What version of Vista are you using?". I treasured the moment.