tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5887190733734840567..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Israel Joins the OECDYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-194579679557160962010-05-11T00:35:35.784+03:002010-05-11T00:35:35.784+03:00you joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 1996 ...you joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 1996 i.e. 14 years ago, so it was about time - Saudi Arabia which had the peculiar habit of fixing the date of invention as the date when the clerk got around to put the "received" stamp on the application still hasn't joined. (not that Saudi-Arabia was the most exotic state I had to deal with, that crown belongs to the US)<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-81996678599371279352010-05-10T17:08:59.147+03:002010-05-10T17:08:59.147+03:00Congrats!Congrats!Sergionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-53607376330082027682010-05-10T16:25:25.974+03:002010-05-10T16:25:25.974+03:0062 years ago, Israel was a Third World country. In...62 years ago, Israel was a Third World country. In six decades, its managed to vault itself into First World country status. Its accession to the OECD merely ratifies this astounding accomplishment.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-40190002880580618592010-05-10T15:22:44.732+03:002010-05-10T15:22:44.732+03:00The Guardian can now take credit for a second miss...The Guardian can now take credit for a second miss in another of its ever popular “rush to judgment” articles as it leads its readers on its version of an LSD trip down the I/P conflict (the other recent “rush to judgment” being the Dreyfuss debacle):<br /><br />Put conditions on Israel’s OECD entry<br />Israeli accession to this group of nations must be contingent on a commitment to embark on a credible peace process”<br /><br />Poor old Avi Shlaim … how I wish that thread were still open.<br /><br />Today’s news:<br /><br />Israel gets accepted into OECD after unanimous vote<br /><br />—<br /><br />I guess either:<br /><br />a) No one wanted to put conditions on Israel’s entry into the OECD<br /><br />or<br /><br />b) Some people think there is a “credible peace process”‘<br /><br />or<br /><br />c) Some people don’t read the Guardian<br /><br />or<br /><br />d) Some people who do read the Guardian think Avi Shlaim has lost his marbles and don't care what the Guardian thinks<br /><br />or<br /><br />e) Some people just don’t give a damn about he whole I/P thing and think (shocking) that Israel and Turkey are the only economically developed countries in the ME.<br /><br />Mind you, as someone pointed out on the Israeli news last night, Greece is also in the OECD …AKUShttp://cifwatch.com/2010/05/10/tripping-down-the-guardian-path/noreply@blogger.com