Susie,
On Israel your small mindedness is showing. They lead the World in many technologies. A close friend of mine works in water conservation and irrigation relies on Israeli research information for use in his product development. I suggest you visit Israel and see for yourself if they are the modern country or just carrying on an ancient war.

Josephus wrote:

>> I suggest you visit Israel and see for yourself if they are the modern country or just carrying on an ancient war.>>

LOL

Give it up.

You will not change Suseonline's mind.

As a matter of plain fact, though, you are right. When it comes to water science Australian researchers do make extensive use of research and technology from Israel, another water short country.

There's also a lot of Israeli technology embedded in smartphones and there'll be more now that Samsung has set up a research centre in Israel.

Funny how some people care more about the Israeli technology in their phones than about the "blood coltan."

See: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/blood-coltan/

C'est la vie

'Aren't we discussing modern day Australia Runner?
Drag yourself out of the last century(s) man... '

why so I could display the ignorance you have.

One other thing that we can learn from Israel is to have many citizens trained in the use of arms because when it comes to the crunch it's the people with the small arms who do the final fighting.
Witness Afghanistan.

stevenlmeyer,
We blew our opportunity a few years back when we opted for the Collins Class and the Joint Strike (second hand) when we should have went for two Nuclear powered and equipped aircraft carriers which would have adequately blocked the Indonesians for a long time.
Of course anybody with any sense realizes that sooner or later the Indonesians are going to make a strike for Australia if only because of population pressures and food security.

What can we learn from Israel?

The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University
of Western Australia has this to say:

http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/new-critic/nine/