re: #284 Charles

Check out the Israel-disliker at TrueSlant, who thinks I made up that story about the potato battery:

[Link: trueslant.com…]

Last year at a community event, my little Zionist group had a sign with pictures of all the stuff made with Israeli tech on it. Cellphones, and medical equipment and such. A woman stopped, glared at the sign and said ‘prove it’.

Odd. I would have assumed the response would be more like ‘of course Israel makes technological breakthroughs, they’re a first-world country leeching off the blood of the Palestinians’. Or ‘do children in Gaza have access to this stuff?’. But no, the dislike is so intense that the mere idea that Israel produces technology seems unlikely to them.