the stage to make the announcement after he had ended his hour long speech.

The prime minister had already impressed the top chief executives of some of the world's best known technology companies with a quip that he was already in virtual touch with them and others in this tech hub through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

"Goodbye California! PM @narendramodi departs San Jose for New York, after a very productive weekend," tweeted foreign office spokesperson Vikas Swarup, soon after Modi concluded his visit the first by an Indian prime minister to the West coast since Indira Gandhi's Los Angeles visit in 1982.

A packed schedule awaits the prime minister once again in New York today. There is a bilateral with President Francois Hollande of France, a call on by World Bankas human shields for black propaganda purposes, should Israel strike back. Those Gazans who are killed by Gazan missiles are either too unimportant to be recorded or attributed to Israeli action.

You will not learn the facts from the United Nations. They do not tell us that, by its carefully targeted air attacks, Israel has destroyed nearly all of the Iranian Fajr rockets that the UN was supposed to prevent coming into Gaza. Fajr rockets were aimed at Jerusalem (which some Muslim Brotherhood colleagues of Mr Morsi want to be the capital of Egypt) and Tel Aviv. The United Nations has betrayed the mandate that the nations of the world recorded to return Israel to Jews and Israelites that was agreed after World War One. Instead it is now