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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @05:26AM (#7022719)
>The Middle East is well...it is what it is. A couple nice cities in a very difficult socio-economic environment with one industry. Depending on how you count it (European or Central Asia), lots of Turkey is actually pretty nice.

Oy, what about Israel ;-)?

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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by bane on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @06:21AM (#7022863)
Ha! I'd probably add it to the few nice cities, and strike it from the singular industry list. But the rest still applies I suppose...particularly the difficult socio-economic environment.

In some ways I'd say Israel is like a very compressed and magnified U.S., huge military industrial complex, lots of immigrants, racial and ethnic segregation issues, big hi-tech industry, intense religious conservative red neck types...it's just all in an area the size of West Virginia.

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