Nice Set of Breast Cancers

Ok, don't get upset about the title, I'm actually a legitimate supporter of breast cancer research, and i eat breast cancer cupcakes as often as i can.  I actually intend to raise awareness about a specific aspect of this issue. 
We regularly hear all this talk about boycotting Israel, not buying Israeli products and services, etc.  Let me tell you why that is a steaming pile of day old horse shit.  Anyone who sends an email chain urging people to boycott Israel is probably using a Pentium processor  Made in Israel.  Did you use your cell phone today? Fuck, also made in Israel.  That pill with a camera that you swallow so that the doctor doesn't shove a tube up your ass during a colonoscopy? You guessed it, Made by sore-assed Israelis.  I bring these examples to your attention because I want to make it clear that these people don't want to boycott Israel, they want to boycott Israel only in instances in which it is convenient for them.  Well, here's hoping their wives don't get breast cancer because Israel is the world leader in survival rates and cutting edge research when it comes to breast cancer, despite the fact that the country is afflicted at a much higher rate than America. 
Other countries have finally begun to take note of the Israeli way of handling something like this.  Israeli hospitals offer highly targeted treatments based on an amalgamation of research, most of which emanates from Israel, as well as internationally.  In fact, the most effective way of catching hereditary breast cancer, the isolation of the BRCA gene was originally developed in collaboration with Tamar Peretz, director of Hadassah Medical Center's oncology department.  Herceptin, which was one of the first drugs on the market to combat breast cancer, and one of the most effective, was actually developed in league with the Weizmann Institute in Israel.  Israel offers world class psychologists trained to help patients deal with their diagnosis, something most developed countries are lagging on.  their national health system also provides free mammogram screening for women over 50 and younger women deemed to be at risk.  Israel has made itself known as a destination to women around the word suffering from breast cancer. 
These practices have led to an unusually high rate of catching the disease in its earliest stages, pushing the survival rate to over 90% and rising. 
This is also an issue that reaches across borders.  Israeli mobile mammogram units regularly travel to Gaza, along with Israeli doctors to bring treatment to an Arab community where even the discussion of breast cancer is considered taboo.  But the medical community is making progress. This year was Israel's first Susan G Komen Race for the Cure, and the turn out was surprising.  Secular jews, orthodox jews, druze and arab women all walking alongside each other.  This just goes to show that an issue as serious as this can outflank cultural differences and hatred.  It's a shame that this sort of thing gets no press, whereas it is one of the most important things going on int he region, both domestically and internationally.

Reference: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/11/01/2741524/in-war-on-breast-cancer-israel-leads