is to reach a complete, final status deal with moderate Palestinians (Abbas). Hamas will almost certainly reject it, but the majority of Palestinians will not. But they need to see the deal, not some vague promises for the future while Israeli settlements continue to expand.

immediately if not yesterday full court press on asia, india, s. korea, china. europe is the dead past. use them but leave them.

bibi is interested in joining a program that runs in contradiction to everything he believes in? coz it's european? horizon 2020 is governments interfering in economics for the benefit of its weak citizens. the eu has about as much chance of succesfuly implementing it as bibi has in becoming a socialist. there's something we're not being told, here.

horizon 2020 is not about science or technology except as a means of fighting unemployment in europe. you really think they're going to invest in the west bank so europe's unemployed will go live there? where? in an israeli settlement or an arab village?

It's the Jews that made the country a cradle of civliization, not the Arabs. And Jews were there first. Not too hard to figure it out, know, Jews ---> Judaea Arabs ---> Arabia You do see the irony of your calling us "Euro squatters", don't you?

Your fringe views are far outside the broad concensus of Israeli society, and what you call the "silent majority of "indifferent" Israelis" are at least as well informed as you. Your views appear to conform to those of one former "Haaretz" editor, who asked for the US to "rape Israel" into making concessions. Israelis would like to have cooperation and joint projects with the EU, but not at any price. Bowing down to unreasonable demands by those who have abused, persecuted, and slandered the Jews for 2 millenia appears to be on the other side of the red line.

Read the news in the last few months? These negotiations have been going on for months.

Obama's deal on iran was the only one he could do as the US has no stomach for any more war, notwithstanding congressional opposition to his deal. Hezbollah with 100,000 missiles hiding in homes along with tehran's missiles and guard forces would make an israeli hit very bloody. Bibi has no stomach for that kind of warfare period. Livni's assertion that deal with palestinians will make iran easier case is full of crap. her thinking is so stupid, how did she ever get into law school. She is as dumb as a doorknob. iran will get the bomb like north korea, end of story. Then suitcase bombs will be launched against spain, france, new york and tel aviv which will lead to armageddon. That is the way it is going to be. The cancer eating away at israel is fear and inaction bordering on paralysis. Of course iran would not be the only ones to get the bomb

It would be nice to think Europe needs us more than we need them, as you claim. But let's talk reality for once. 35-40% of Israel import and export comes from the EU. Less than 1% of the EU's import and export comes from Israel. If all trade stopped between us and them, the EU would not even notice while almost half the Israeli population would be out of job. And what makes you think China would be a better partner. China has always taken a more pro-Arab position than both the US and the EU.

Their refusal must become their loss.

Did you come here to discuss internal US politics and scare few points for our Grand-Failure-in-Chief. Do not bother, it is not the right place and nothing will help by now anyway.

all EU and UN NGO's .

Israeli brains." Bullcrap! The Chinese mass produce engineers as easily as they mass produce Nikes and Iphones. Their educational system is based on rote memory, not on imaginative thinking. But even though 'China has more engineers and scientists than Israel has people" , these engineers lack the talent of innovation and forward thinking. They are great copiers but lousy inventors, and as a result (besides the fact that the Chinese population is rapidly aging and their workforce is shrinking due to their ridiculous one-child policy), China's economic growth is already slowing down. You can't build an economy based on cheap labor alone (which China is also losing) without invention and innovation, which the Chinese don't have. Chinese engineers aren't worth a chopstick compared to Israeli engineers, and they are leaving too for greener pastures and WOMEN (men outnumber women appx. 4:1 in China). Actually, you yourself make a promising inventor. Your "facts" prove it.

OF BDS Movement. It's growing and Israel can't do anything about it until there is justice for the Palestinian people.

This is a result of the israeli governments neglect to adopt the Levy report and not standing up for it internationally. You only get what you give.

First you're freaking out about academic brain drain when Israeli expats who ditched your country win Nobels, and now everyone's nonchalantly talking about throwing away a billion dollars in free research funding so that the Hilltop Youth types can have a moral victory... you can't have it both ways anymore.

What BDS? Thousands of new homes being built, no sign of any reversal on Israel's part. There is justice, and it is Israel's victory in the zero sum game that the Arabs imposed on her.

After BiBi disgraceful performance during the last US Presidential election. Obama should bury him for his treachery. Russia is going to hang him by the b***s for his part in the Georgia conflict. The Pope won't talk to him and the Brits have already read him the riot act. Running out of 'friends' faster than water through a sieve.

"The moving finger writes and having written......Not all thy piety or wit ....." Can't change the Facts Mate.

#44 dredges up all the extremely inaccurate, racists stereotypes about China While ignoring that many of the things we use every day are designed and made by Chinese engineers. He also ignores that for over 5000 years China was the dominant center of trade and innovation in Asia. The bottom line is Chinese engineers are every bit as capable of innovation as Israelis engineers. For example, the most powerful computer on earth was designed and built by Chinese engineers, paid for by the large wealth China has (and Israel does not have). Israelis need to get over their false "superiority" complex and realize they are no better than any other humans on earth.

What is grossly ignorant, the ongoing 1-child policy? The fact that the Chinese school system (as does the S.Korean, by the way) by rote memory and not by original though and problem solving? The fact that Chinese men outnumber women by 4:1 (guess you never saw the films of baby girls left to die by the roadside, while people passed and didn't bother to do anything), that the Chinese economic "boom" was fueled by cheap labor, and as wages rise, even US companies are returning to the US because the quality of Western goods is still superior to China. Or maybe name a few modern Chinese inventions (NOT stolen or copied ideas) and I will counter with two original Israeli inventions. It's not a superiority complex that Israeli engineers are FAR better than Chinese engineers, it's a FACT that anti-semites as yourself should learn to accept.