by Kurt Nimmo, Global Research:
Huckabee failed to do research before making fallacious claims.
It is plainly obvious that lies, fabrication, and deception are de rigueur for the Trump administration and its appointees.
Beyond Trump’s numerous daily fantasies and misrepresentations, we have his ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, concocting sundry falsehoods to make Israel appear to be something it is not. Last month, Huckabee said:
The people who say, “I hate Israel. I want nothing to do with it.” Okay, fine. Give up car navigation, give up your cell phone, give up the thumb drive. Oh, and by the way, let’s throw in: give up seedless watermelon, cherry tomatoes while you’re at it.
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Huckabee failed to do research before making these claims. Let’s begin with the claim Israel invented car navigation.
In 1981, Japan introduced the first in-car navigation and commercial map-based navigation systems, known as the Electro Gyrocator, an inertial guidance system, were introduced by Honda and Alpine. The first navigation system was pioneered prior to GPS satellites and navigation systems in vehicles today. GPS satellites, put into orbit primarily by the United States Defense Department, were not operational until the 1990s.
Waze Mobile Ltd., formerly FreeMap Israel, a subsidiary of Google, later developed satellite navigation software. Waze was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine, veterans of Unit 8200, an Israeli cyberwarfare unit targeting Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Critics accuse the unit of intentionally targeting civilians as part of the Dahiya Doctrine, an initiative engaged in the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the massacre of Palestinians.
The first handheld mobile phone was invented by Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola. While it is true Cooper is Jewish, he is by no means an Israeli, or did he work for an Israeli company. He made the first public cellular phone call on April 3, 1973, in New York City, using a prototype device.
There is an online rumor that Israel invented the cell phone, but it is not true. Motorola’s Israeli research and development teams did contribute to later mobile phone technologies and hardware refinement, but they were not associated with Cooper.
As for the USB thumb drive or memory stick, it was invented by Dov Moran, an Israeli businessman, electrical engineer, inventor, investor, and writer. Moran is considered a prominent Israeli hi-tech leader.
Seedless watermelons, a scrambling and trailing vine-like plant cultivated worldwide, were invented over 50 years ago in Japan. O.J. Eigsti, a leading researcher in the United States, popularized the plant. Eigsti was one of the founders of the “American Seedless Watermelon Corporation,” which developed several seedless varieties.
Israel claims to have developed the cherry tomato. However, the edible berry was actually introduced by the Jewish-owned and operated British retailing giant Marks & Spencer, headquartered in London. In the 1970s, Israeli scientists Nachum Kedar and Haim Rabinowitch of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem were credited by Jews and the Israeli government with “inventing the cherry tomato.”
