16 Arabs from Israel making a difference on the world stage
Meet some remarkable Druze, Muslim and Christian scientists, media experts, techies, film stars and athletes from Israel.
Prof. Hossam Haick. Photo courtesy of the Technion. Hossam Haick is trailblazing tomorrow’s technologies for sniffing out disease.
Kossay Omary and Rabeeh Khoury developed one of the smallest computers in the world.
They’re not the only Arab Israelis making waves in the global community. Jamil R. Mazzawi founded Optima Design Automation, a startup developing software for self-driving cars. Mahmoud Huleihel made a breakthrough in the field of male infertility.
ISRAEL21c highlights 16 of the many Arabs in Israel making a difference on the world stage, listed here in random order. Feel free to add your nominees in the comments section below.
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Yes, but you should also post about all those wonderful Jewish success stories in the Arab countries...
Well, actually I know of several. I will seed an article on that subject in a bit...stay tuned.(I will post a link to it here after I've seeded it).
Well, here's one-- Jews..doing it in an Arab country. (I don't know if it is considered a total success in that obviously didn't completely end the suffering of the Syrians. However in another sense these Jews did have a success and it was in a Arab country):
Jewish groups send aid to Syrians in Jordan
Coalition of 14 organizations allocates $100,000 to refugees of the two-year-old civil war in Syria
Nope.
Your article is about Arabs / Muslims who are Israeli citizens.
So I was wondering about all the well-known contributions to science and culture, from Jews who are citizens of Arab / Muslim countries...
Except Iran which isn’t Arab most Muslim Nations in the Middle East expelled their Jewish populations after Israel 🇮🇱 won independence in 1948.
True.
I always find it ironic that we are constantly bombarded with news about Arab refugees-- but hardly ever hear about the Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries:
P.S: If anyone on NT is interested in learning more about the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab land (granted that's highly unlikely...but if anyone is...,) here is what the best resource on the 'net-- an amazing resource:
Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries
One-stop blog on Jews from Arab and Muslim Countries and the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees, updated daily
(LINK)
Where I used to live, there were a lot of both Jewish and Muslim Iranians, who call themselves Persians. The fled after the Shah of Iran was deposed. Many had to flee across the desert and had family members die. Even the Muslim Persians agreed, that if you were Jewish and caught fleeing, your fate was much worse, than a Muslim. Of course many of these Persian Jews went to Israel, but many also came to NY.
But most Persians, despite their faith, get along quite well, because what they agreed upon was that they didn't want to live in a theocracy.
“There are so many excellent Arab experts that even many within Arab society don’t know about them,” says Makbula Nassar , manager of the A-List project, an online database of Arab Israeli superstars making strides in culture, sports, medicine, environment, fashion, diplomacy, education and technology.
Muslim, Christian, Druze, Bedouin, Baha’i, Circassian and other Arab Israelis make up 21 percent of the country’s population, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Recently there's been an increase in prejudice and negative stereotyping of Muslims in general, and particularly those Muslims who are Arabs. While there are mentally ill, violent people in any group of people (for example those response for mass rape, torture...even skinning alive of children . . . as happens on a daily basis in hell-holes such as Syria, when given the opportunity, Arabs really shine!
This is, sadly, partly a numbers game. For example, there are some five million Muslims in France (mainly French citizens). Let's say one-tenth of one percent have serious mental problems. Let's say that of that tiny number, one little percent turns to asocial violence in the form of Islamic terrorism. That's fifty murderers.
Or rather, fifty needles in five hundred hay-stacks.
And of course, such people are particularly susceptible to feedback loops. If they are in the company of other asocial wackos, they mutually reinforce each other's madness, playing monstrous games of "can you top this?"
That's the reality of "preventing terrorism". The only real path to success is to have the haystacks (the Islamic community) reject the crazies, to the point of turning them in to the police. That's the real story behind almost every case of "terrorist cell discovered by the police".
Now... if we play the same numbers game with American White Supremacists... we must come to the same conclusion for a different reason: that they will continue to slaughter innocent people... because while French Muslims do not accept terrorists in their midst, American conservatives feel quite comfortable with White Supremacists.
Sadly that does seem to be the case
No they don't. There aren't that many "white supremacists" to begin with and only a tiny number of right wingers support them. Other than the occasional wacko like McVeigh, they don't commit terror. You've been watching CNN and MSNBC too much. You speak in absolutes and fail to make your point.
Obviously all Trump supporters are not racists. But all (or almost all) racists are Trump supporters. David Duke is someone who is quite familiar with the way racists think-- and vote. After all, he's one of them.
And he has a large following.
He's what he had to say about the election (this is a direct quote):
A former Ku Klux Klan leader – or 'grand wizard' – has suggested fascists had helped Donald Trump win the US presidential election.
David Duke, who once led the neo-Nazi, white-supermacist organisation, tweeted the claim on election night.
“This is one of the most exciting nights of my life,” Mr Duke wrote.
“Make no mistake about it, our people have played a huge role in electing Trump!”
It goes a lot further than that. White Supremacism is the glue that holds together the absurd alliance of the ultra-rich and lower/middle class Whites. Most GOP policies are objectively detrimental to the vast majority of GOP voters. BUT! The GOP will keep them uppity Niggas down. White Supremacism is absolutely essential to the Republican power structure.
And for good reason. Arabs have contributed greatly over centuries in all kinds of fields. Then they got caught up in a religion started by a child rapist and abuser. And many of them have become terrorists.
But..Islam wasn't invented just recently.
There was a period of profound Muslim intellectualism known as the 'Islamic Golden Age" from the 8th Century to the 13th. until the Mongol invasion. They were far ahead of Europe in the math and sciences and even philosophy and architecture.
After the invasion by Genghis Khan, the area fell under the Ottoman Empire and all that was, was gone.
That period was over five centuries ago.
One needn't be anti-Islamic to observe that Muslim contributions to science and culture are not at all proportional to their population. The question of "why" isn't simple. I can see two possible causes. First, all education is subordinate to religious studies. Second, Islam puts a premium on obedience, rather than innovation.
True. Just look at things like a list of Nobel prize winners looking up Jewish and Arab people in the Middle East and beyond. What Israel has done with agriculture, water, technology, and creating a first world economy is amazing.