I was in Israel this past summer visiting the National Biotechnology Institute of the Negev (NBIN) which is outside of Beersheva. The genesis of NBIN was the collection of genetic data from Bedouins as part of a health clinic Ben Gurion University established for that nomadic people. Now NBIN has a powerful platform for developing genetic markers for diseases, particularly those that afflict the Arab world. NBIN -- along with school chidren, synagogues, day care centers, hospitals and the very health clinics mentioned above -- is now within the range of rockets being fired by Hamas, rockets acquired during a "cease fire."
Those who seek to establish a moral equivalence between Israel and it's enemies, particularly journalists, lack both conscience and context.
Those who seek to establish a moral equivalence between Israel and it's enemies, particularly journalists, lack both conscience and context.
