“Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling through the United States this week for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference, and he is scheduled to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook today,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac. “The calendar also sharesthat Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with the founders of WhatsApp, who recently sold their messaging service to Facebook for $19 billion.”
“Apple executives occasionally meet with the leaders of nations from the around the world. In recent months, several reports have detailed meetings between Cook and Turkish government leaders,” Gurman reports. “Even without official online or physical retail sales channels, Apple and Israel have had a strong relationship for the past few years…”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Not Obama tho?
Netanyahu met with Obama already this week.
And he met with Jerry Brown in California and signed an information sharing deal that will do more good than harm.
I would love to trade Jerry Brown for Netanyahu. Talk about a guy who could straighten out our state!
Actually, I alternate between New Mexico and Florida, but California is a fabulous place in many ways, climate-wise and culture-wise. Water-wise, tax-wise, kook-wise, maybe a bit iffy. But Jerry is trying, at least.
Jerry is a clown. California is nothing but a socialist welfare state. Literally. It’s great if you’re a public worker. They just keep raising taxes and the rest of us have to pay those taxes to support all those government workers. Unbelievable! People in the other 49 states have no idea what it’s really like here. Jerry and the Democrats in Sacramento have never seen a tax or a spending program that they didn’t like. Try reading some objective stories about the high-speed train that is being built in California. Unnecessary. And it goes nowhere. Billions and billions and billions of dollars. Down the toilet.
I don’t suppose there is a union representing all them state workers … Is there? Follow the money please.
Water-wise? Are you kidding?
@ GM How do you throw billions of dollars down a toilet when you don’t have the water to flush it away?
What’s in it for Israel? We’d get a competent leader, they’d get what… comic relief?
-jcr
Yup.
Obama messiah! Blah, blah, blah! Socialist. Blah, blah.
Prophesy of a post yet to come?
In 2008 Israel’s GDP was US$167B. That has gone up a bit each year since, but I picked that year since that’s Apple cash right now. Something to think about when wondering why these two world leaders would meet!
And the US keeps sending money each year to Israel. Around 3 billion a year.
What’s you’re point?
That a country with so much economic development is being subsidized by a country with such huge deficit .
We send the money wrapped in finely crafted containers… That also hold exoset, minuteman, Polaris and Patriot missiles that Uncle Sam purchases from U.S. Businesses. It helps our economy. Sort of…
What a load of non sense, Apple and Isreal are completely different, Israel is a big burden on America and the western world economically, without the financial support Israel would not exist, all it’s supposed economic capability is exeragerrated misleading lies
NUT-an-Yahoo is a warmonger head of an apartheid state. Maybe down in Alabama where noon-whites could not be served at a lunch counter, sit in the front of a bus or sit in the lower level of a theater was considered normal for decades they think Israel is some warm fuzzy thing, but the ugly truth is that it is an unsustainable island of apartheid.
Apple, Intel and others should have no part in investing in occupied Palestine and the US should outlaw AIPAC. It is crazy that a small state in the middle east smaller than some US counties exerts such outsized influence in these United States.
Long term, investing in Israel is investing in a mirage as the basis for the existence of the state is unsustainable in it’s current form. Israel is being eaten alive by the poisonous hyper-orthodox from one side, the caustic effects of the mistreatment, repression and outright theft of property from Palestinians on another. Israel is running out of water, arable farmland and has a huge pot of karma boiling among non-Jewish residents of Israel.
Among the Jewish Israelis the hyper orthodox refuse productive work, are attempting to impose harsh religious laws on more moderate or non-religous Israelis, refuse to serve in the military and are having children at a high rate. That is a formula for disaster.
Ask NUT-an-Yahoo about this.
…and you even foisted out there the word unsustainable. That’s the buzzword that all respectable Vegans use these days (That is if you really ARE a Vegan!).
Is there any country out there not worthy of criticism???
(Sorry, but Antarctica is not a country.)
Unsustainable has many applications. Trillion Dollar Deficits are unsustainable as well.
It is not just about food miles and energy input.
Sorry- I’m just sick of everyone using the word unsustainable These days.
My, how one sided of you.
Odd, we in the West boycott Russia, but not Israel?!!?