Sorry BSemites, you really have to try harder. 2014 set a new record for overseas investment in Israeli high-technology industry: 15$ billion were spent in purchasing Israeli start-ups, doubling the 2013 investment. Read this great article by Yoram Ettinger about Israel's very fictitous 'isolation':
Despite the conventional claim that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated, the multinational accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers determined that 2014 was a record year of overseas investments in Israel’s high-tech industries: $15 billion in acquisitions of 52 Israeli startups (compared to $7.6 billion in 2013), in addition to $9.8 billion raised by 18 Israeli companies in overseas stock exchanges (compared to $1.2 billion in 2013). Once again, Israel’s impact on global medicine, health, agriculture, irrigation, energy alternatives, science, cyber, homeland security and defense, as well as Wall Street, outweighs the impact of the Gaza Strip.
Since 1948, a recycled assumption (e.g., the 1975 “Zionism is racism” UN resolution) has maintained that an anti-Israel global tsunami is about to drown the Jewish state, triggering unprecedented isolation, the collapse of its international standing and the breakdown of its ties with the US, unless it promised — in the unpredictable, unstable, violent Middle East — to redivide Jerusalem, uproot over 500,000 Jewish settlers, and retreat to a 9-15 mile sliver along the Mediterranean dominated by the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria.
However, the collapse of the USSR (which facilitated the 1991 revocation of the USSR-sponsored “Zionism is Racism”), the affirmation of the US as the dominant super power, the upgraded, mutually beneficial US-Israel relationship and the emergence of Israel as a global commercial and military high tech power, have all enhanced Israel’s global standing, dramatically expanding Israel’s global networking beyond Europe into India, China, Russia, the former Muslim republics of the USSR, Latin America — all irrespective of diplomatic setbacks.
