• Seraph@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Can’t help but think that by paying for their weapons the US taxpayer has subsidized this. Joy…

  • 800XL@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Gee I wonder why? What interest would the Israeli gov’t have in backdooring chips made there?

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      11 months ago

      It’s not nefarious as you’d thing. Simply put Israel is a desert which they are slowly turning into something more fertile but the point is they don’t have natural resources of any kind. They of course realize that and know how business works, so they invest huge amounts of money into education, science, research and above all businesses. There are literally cities that form around companies as big as Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and others. They are all there.

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          11 months ago

          So does Israel… Leviathan is 22tcf in size.

          As of 2017, even by conservative estimates, Leviathan holds enough gas to meet Israel’s domestic needs for 40 years, having 22 trillion cubic feet in recoverable natural gas. The field began commercial production of gas on 31 December 2019.

  • Andy@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    I feel like this is short sighted, from a business perspective.

    I think that the movement to boycott-sanction-digest from Israeli companies is likely to expand substantially in the coming year. 3.2 B is a lot, but will it be worth it? Not sure.