15 Impressive Features Of The Israeli Economy

[JStone]

"Israel is one of the highly successful countries in the Middle East and the world. In just a few decades, the country transformed itself from an economy primarily based on agriculture, clothing and other industries to a hi-tech powerhouse with leadership positions in software engineering, computer component manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and medical technologies.

This vibrant economy offers many excellent opportunities for investors. Widely praised as a “start-up nation”, Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ after Canada and the US and the highest level of venture capital as a share of GDP."

Continued: 15 Impressive Features Of The Israeli Economy And Some Investment Opportunities For Profiting - Seeking Alpha

 

[P F Tinmore]

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study

Israel has one of the highest poverty rates among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of 33 rich nations which it joined in September 2010.

In terms of income equality, Israel has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the OECD, ranking alongside the United States, Mexico and Chile.

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study - Yahoo! News

 

[JStone]

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study

Er, Israel's per capita income is twice that of Turkey and approaching that of the UK.

How are you Rabs doing?

The Economist Magazine: Arab World Self-Doomed To Failure

WHAT went wrong with the Arab world? Why is it so stuck behind the times? It is not an obviously unlucky region. Fatly endowed with oil, and with its people sharing a rich cultural, religious and linguistic heritage, it is faced neither with endemic poverty nor with ethnic conflict. But, with barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can.

One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And, over the past 20 years, growth in income per head, at an annual rate of 0.5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, it will take the average Arab 140 years to double his income, a target that some regions are set to reach in less than ten years. Stagnant growth, together with a fast-rising population, means vanishing jobs. Around 12m people, or 15% of the labour force, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25m by 2010.

Freedom. This deficit explains many of the fundamental things that are wrong with the Arab world: the survival of absolute autocracies; the holding of bogus elections; confusion between the executive and the judiciary (the report points out the close linguistic link between the two in Arabic); constraints on the media and on civil society; and a patriarchal, intolerant, sometimes suffocating social environment. The great wave of democratisation that has opened up so much of the world over the past 15 years seems to have left the Arabs untouched. Democracy is occasionally offered, but as a concession, not as a right. Freedom of expression and freedom of association are both sharply limited. Freedom House, an American-based monitor of political and civil rights, records that no Arab country has genuinely free media, and only three have “partly free”. The rest are not free

•Knowledge. “If God were to humiliate a human being,” wrote Imam Ali bin abi Taleb in the sixth century, “He would deny him knowledge.” Although the Arabs spend a higher percentage of GDP on education than any other developing region, it is not, it seems, well spent. The quality of education has deteriorated pitifully, and there is a severe mismatch between the labour market and the education system. Adult illiteracy rates have declined but are still very high: 65m adults are illiterate, almost two-thirds of them women. Some 10m children still have no schooling at all. One of the gravest results of their poor education is that the Arabs, who once led the world in science, are dropping ever further behind in scientific research and in information technology. Investment in research and development is less than one-seventh of the world average. Only 0.6% of the population uses the Internet, and 1.2% have personal computers.

•Women's status. The one thing that every outsider knows about the Arab world is that it does not treat its women as full citizens. How can a society prosper when it stifles half its productive potential? After all, even though women's literacy rates have trebled in the past 30 years, one in every two Arab women still can neither read nor write. Their participation in their countries' political and economic life is the lowest in the world.

Arab development: Self-doomed to failure | The Economist

 

[spectrumc01]

Where does the three billion in anual aid from the US come in at? Also where does the 100 million in collected taxes that Israel refuses to give the Palestinians come in at? I wonder what their economy would look like if they had to do it all on their own?

 

[martybegan]

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study

Israel has one of the highest poverty rates among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of 33 rich nations which it joined in September 2010.

In terms of income equality, Israel has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the OECD, ranking alongside the United States, Mexico and Chile.

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study - Yahoo! News

So its one of the worst rich countries? Thats like having sex with one of the worst Playboy bunnies.

Also, the whole rich/poor gap thing doesnt include the fact that our poor are basically, with the exception of other 1st world countries) better off than most places upper middle class.

 

[JStone]

Where does the three billion in anual aid from the US come in at? Also where does the 100 million in collected taxes that Israel refuses to give the Palestinians come in at? I wonder what their economy would look like if they had to do it all on their own?

The military equipment Israel receives is about 1% of Israel's GDP, so, no biggie. In return, Israelis buy upwards of $15 billion in US exports while poor shits like you buy from China.

Once you get that promotion from flipping burgers, you won't be worrying about Israel.

 

[Jos]

Israel’s greatest threat is not security, it's poverty

Believe it or not, despite the growth of the Israeli economy and the country’s unparalleled success in high tech (known to many as the ‘Start-Up Nation’ phenomenon), about 25% of Israelis live in poverty.

Israel

Poverty in Israel

this year’s poverty report does little to cover up Israel’s chronic economic ills.

One of them is the low rate of participation in the labor market. Our low unemployment rate – below 6% this year – is deceiving. It takes into account only those actively seeking employment. Hundreds of thousands – particularly Arab women and haredi men – are not counted because they are not looking for work.

Poverty in Israel - JPost - Opinion - Editorials

Israel leads West in child poverty

According to the report, child poverty grew by about 50 percent since 1988, with about a third of all children living below the poverty line. Meanwhile, 28,000 additional families dropped below the poverty line in 2004, comprising 107,000 Israelis, 61,000 of them children.

Israel leads West in child poverty - Israel News, Ynetnews

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[HUGGY]

"Israel is one of the highly successful countries in the Middle East and the world. In just a few decades, the country transformed itself from an economy primarily based on agriculture, clothing and other industries to a hi-tech powerhouse with leadership positions in software engineering, computer component manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and medical technologies.

This vibrant economy offers many excellent opportunities for investors. Widely praised as a “start-up nation”, Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ after Canada and the US and the highest level of venture capital as a share of GDP."

Continued: 15 Impressive Features Of The Israeli Economy And Some Investment Opportunities For Profiting - Seeking Alpha

I'm convinced!...you should move there! Or would that mean you have to give up your job lobbying for the Jews here...Go ahead on!...We won't forget what you had to say..

 

[JStone]

"Israel is one of the highly successful countries in the Middle East and the world. In just a few decades, the country transformed itself from an economy primarily based on agriculture, clothing and other industries to a hi-tech powerhouse with leadership positions in software engineering, computer component manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and medical technologies.

This vibrant economy offers many excellent opportunities for investors. Widely praised as a “start-up nation”, Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ after Canada and the US and the highest level of venture capital as a share of GDP."

Continued: 15 Impressive Features Of The Israeli Economy And Some Investment Opportunities For Profiting - Seeking Alpha

I'm convinced!...you should move there! Or would that mean you have to give up your job lobbying for the Jews here...Go ahead on!...We won't forget what you had to say..

Once you find gainful employment, you won't be jealous of the successful Jews. Don't be proud, cleaning toilets is still work

 

[JStone]

Hos, how is spain?

Spain's Economy Records Zero Growth
BBC News - Spain's economy records zero growth

1 in 6 Americans Living In Poverty
Nearly one in six in poverty in the U.S.; children hit hard, Census says - The Washington Post


Business Week: Israel Punches Above Weight As GDP Beats Developed World

Never mind the collapse in confidence in Europe...The Israeli economy just keeps growing faster than the rest of the developed world. The International Monetary Fund this week raised its forecast for the country and cut its estimate for the global economy on the impact of the European debt crisis. Israel's gross domestic product will expand 4.8 percent this year, according to the Washington-based lender. That's up from an April forecast of 3.8 percent and triple the pace for the average of the 34 advanced economies.
Citigroup Inc. said on Sept. 18 it would establish a new Israeli research center and Standard & Poor's a week earlier raised the country's credit rating. It cited the discovery of two gas fields off the coast of Israel that hold an estimated 25 trillion cubic feet of the fuel. Mellanox Technologies Ltd., the 12-year-old Israeli adapter maker part-owned by Oracle Corp., says sales will grow 80 percent in the third quarter. “The Israeli economy is very vibrant,” Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a Sept. 20 interview with Bloomberg Television. “We enjoy very low unemployment and nice economic growth and this is mainly because we managed to develop very advanced high tech industries and very strong exports.”

Technology Capital: The stock market in Israel, whose population of 7.8 million is similar to Switzerland's, was upgraded to developed-market status by MSCI Inc. in May 2010, the same month the 63-year-old country was accepted into the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The country has about 60 companies traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the most of any nation outside North America after China and is also home to the largest number of startup companies per capita in the world. Israel ranks third in terms of projected growth this year among MSCI's list of 24 developed economies, after 6 percent for Hong Kong and 5.3 percent for Singapore, according to the IMF

Israel's exports are high-added value exports like informatics and technology,” said Jean-Dominique Butikofer, a fund manager who helps oversee about $1 billion of emerging- market debt at Union Bancaire Privee in Zurich, including quasi- sovereign Israeli bonds. “They're not exporting Gucci bags. If there's a slowdown, these are the kind of assets that are good to have.

Talent Pool: Venture-capital backed Israeli technology companies raised $364 million in the second quarter of this year, a 77 percent jump from the $206 million raised in the year-earlier period, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Moneytree report. Seventy-six companies raised funding in the three-month period, compared with only 60 last year, the report said. “One reason that the economy continues to do well is the component of innovation and ability to adapt to a changing environment,” Citigroup Israel Managing Director Ralph Shaaya said in explaining the New York-based bank's decision to locate a research center in Israel. ‘There is a rich pool of talent in the high tech sector. The propensity for innovation is high.”

The economy may already be feeling the bite. Exports, excluding ships, aircrafts, and diamonds, declined for the fourth month out of five in August to their lowest since January, according to seasonally adjusted figures. This didn't deter Standard & Poor's from raising Israel's credit rating earlier this month to A+, its fifth-highest investment-grade rating, just a few weeks after cutting the U.S. and before cutting Italy. S&P cited the two gas fields, Tamar and Leviathan, off its Mediterranean coast. “You have a situation where the global economy is clearly running into a roadblock and having a tough time while the Israeli economy is going to bend but it isn't going to break,” said Daniel Hewitt, senior emerging-market economist at Barclays Capital in London. “We think Israel can maintain positive growth. Israel has a strong economy with a strong base.”

Israel Punches Above Weight as GDP Beats Developed World - BusinessWeek

 

[JStone]

Also where does the 100 million in collected taxes that Israel refuses to give the Palestinians come in at? I wonder what their economy would look like if they had to do it all on their own?

Pestilinians are Arabs and Arabs are the most fucked up losers in the history of the world.

Arab Author Anwar Malek...

The Arabs are afflicted with fantasies and obsolete bravado. False, empty bravado, which does no good to anybody. The Arabs invented or discovered the zero--but what did they do with it? Some of them sat on it, some put it on their heads, while others wore it around their waists and began shaking their hips, their belies, and their breasts in order to sell to the world the idea that modern Arabs are doing something

Today, the Arabs constitute nothing but thousands of zeros to the left. The Arabs have lost their worth, their humanity, their culture, and everything. There is nothing to suggest that the Arabs can be relied upon to produce anything. This false bravado is deeply rooted in the Arabs to an unimaginable degree. It is so deeply rooted that the Arabs believe they can go to the moon. If you asked your viewers whether the Arabs would be able to reach the moon by 2015, they would say, "Yes, the Arabs will get to the moon" By Allah, the Arabs will not go more than a few hundred kilometers from their doorsteps.

In all honesty, the Arabs are backward and are not fit for civilization at all. I am talking about the Arabs of today who have begun to export shawarma, falafel and lupin beans to Europe and they purport to be bringing something Arab to Europe

the reality of the Arabs is one of defeat, hitting rock bottom We are defeated, politically and militarily and economically, socially, and even psychologically. We have a discourse of conspiracy, and we blame everything on others. Take Egypt--What does Egypt--that superpower--have to offer? Nothing, it is incapable of doing anything. It has nothing but lupin beans. It is incapable of anything.

Look at how the Arabs live in the West. By Allah, they are a bad example. If you hear about thieves, they are always Arabs. Whenever a young man harasses a girl on the streets of London or Paris, he turns out to be an Arab. All the negative moral values are to be found in the Arab individual

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYgrziadQIo]Algerian author Anwar Malek talks about the arab world. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[PoliticalChic]

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study

Israel has one of the highest poverty rates among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of 33 rich nations which it joined in September 2010.

In terms of income equality, Israel has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the OECD, ranking alongside the United States, Mexico and Chile.

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study - Yahoo! News

In a related story, Tinny, I found this to be dispositive in the arguments over rectitude...
Jews paid some $14 million to give the Palestinians industry...

"It was perhaps an odd request to make of a man noted for his commitment to Israeli causes and his fierce criticism of the Palestinian Authority.

Please raise $14 million to help buy the Jewish settlers' lucrative greenhouses in the Gaza Strip so that the Palestinians can take them over when the settlers are gone. Oh, and can you get it done by the weekend, before the pullout starts? If not, the settlers will destroy the greenhouses on their way out of Gaza to keep them out of Arab hands."
How Old Friends of Israel Gave $14 Million to Help the Palestinians - New York Times



"Q: What's a quick way to tell Israelis from Palestinian miltants?
A: Israelis turn deserts into gardens, Palestinian militants turn gardens into deserts.

As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke but a statement of fact. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, some affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. [I say "misguided" because, as proven here, giving anything of value to any Islamic militant is like presenting a baboon with a delicite glass or china plate; you can expect it to be broken for amusement or out of sheer malice within the hour.] Within hours of the Palestinians' occupation of Gaza, the greenhouses were RBP. It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts. Now, of course, terrorist Mahmoud Abbas will be whining that he needs money from the United Nations, Europe, and of course the United States because he is unable to feed his people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275655,00.html

American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash.
Palestinian police stood by helplessly Tuesday as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and commanders complained they did not have enough manpower to protect the prized assets. In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said."
Palestinian Behavior in Gaza: Lord of the Flies starring adults instead of kids


Weren't you astounded at this behavior?
So...how does this play into any discussion of poverty?

 

[spectrumc01]

Where does the three billion in anual aid from the US come in at? Also where does the 100 million in collected taxes that Israel refuses to give the Palestinians come in at? I wonder what their economy would look like if they had to do it all on their own?

The military equipment Israel receives is about 1% of Israel's GDP, so, no biggie. In return, Israelis buy upwards of $15 billion in US exports while poor shits like you buy from China.

Once you get that promotion from flipping burgers, you won't be worrying about Israel.

If it wasn't for the US Israel would be a distant memory. Perhaps they should be a little greatful for that. I don't know if you are Jewish or not, but it is responses like yours that make regular people like myself dislike the Israeli's. You give Israeli's a bad name, and embarrass your people. It is opinions like yours that reinforce evey negative stereotype the rest of the world is developing.

 

[JStone]

Where does the three billion in anual aid from the US come in at? Also where does the 100 million in collected taxes that Israel refuses to give the Palestinians come in at? I wonder what their economy would look like if they had to do it all on their own?

The military equipment Israel receives is about 1% of Israel's GDP, so, no biggie. In return, Israelis buy upwards of $15 billion in US exports while poor shits like you buy from China.

Once you get that promotion from flipping burgers, you won't be worrying about Israel.

If it wasn't for the US Israel would be a distant memory.

Maybe, open a history book, stupid little boy. Israel defeated multiple Arab militaries in two wars without US assistance. In '67, Israel humiliated them in 6 days.

You fuckers can't even defeat a bunch of Iraqi sand ******* in 10 years.

Fucking losers!

 

[P F Tinmore]

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study

Israel has one of the highest poverty rates among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of 33 rich nations which it joined in September 2010.

In terms of income equality, Israel has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the OECD, ranking alongside the United States, Mexico and Chile.

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study - Yahoo! News

In a related story, Tinny, I found this to be dispositive in the arguments over rectitude...
Jews paid some $14 million to give the Palestinians industry...

"It was perhaps an odd request to make of a man noted for his commitment to Israeli causes and his fierce criticism of the Palestinian Authority.

Please raise $14 million to help buy the Jewish settlers' lucrative greenhouses in the Gaza Strip so that the Palestinians can take them over when the settlers are gone. Oh, and can you get it done by the weekend, before the pullout starts? If not, the settlers will destroy the greenhouses on their way out of Gaza to keep them out of Arab hands."
How Old Friends of Israel Gave $14 Million to Help the Palestinians - New York Times



"Q: What's a quick way to tell Israelis from Palestinian miltants?
A: Israelis turn deserts into gardens, Palestinian militants turn gardens into deserts.

As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke but a statement of fact. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, some affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. [I say "misguided" because, as proven here, giving anything of value to any Islamic militant is like presenting a baboon with a delicite glass or china plate; you can expect it to be broken for amusement or out of sheer malice within the hour.] Within hours of the Palestinians' occupation of Gaza, the greenhouses were RBP. It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts. Now, of course, terrorist Mahmoud Abbas will be whining that he needs money from the United Nations, Europe, and of course the United States because he is unable to feed his people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275655,00.html

American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash.
Palestinian police stood by helplessly Tuesday as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and commanders complained they did not have enough manpower to protect the prized assets. In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said."
Palestinian Behavior in Gaza: Lord of the Flies starring adults instead of kids


Weren't you astounded at this behavior?
So...how does this play into any discussion of poverty?

It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts.

JERUSALEM – After months of intense negotiations recently culminating in a deal allowing for the transfer of Gaza's high-tech Jewish greenhouses to the Palestinians, several former Jewish residents who briefly returned to their farms told WND they were shocked to find most of their produce has died because Israel turned off the water in the area.

"I couldn't believe it. Almost all of my crops are dead, and the rest is dying," Anita Tucker, one of the pioneer farmers of Jewish Gaza told WND. "I hope the Palestinians aren't expecting fresh produce. ... A fortune in crops is now all gone."

Israel shuts off water, dries Gaza greenhouses

 

[JStone]

Arabs are the most fucked up losers in the history of the world.


Wall Street Journal: Israeli Start-Ups Now Have Google To Incubate Ideas Israeli Start-Ups Now Have Google To Incubate Ideas - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

Google is setting up an “incubator” for technology start-ups in Israel, one of several ways the California-based Internet giant is trying to get an early look at innovations. A Google research director made the announcement Sunday at the company’s annual conference for developers in Israel, saying that the incubator will open in August of next year in the same building as Google’s office in Tel Aviv.

Initially, Google’s incubator will host roughly 20 “pre-seed” start ups, or about 80 people, for a period of a few months, after which new companies will come into the incubator to replace them, and the project will be open to many types of start-ups but has an emphasis on open-source technologies. Google, which isn’t expected to take equity in any of the participating start-ups, hasn’t yet announced how entrepreneurs can apply to the free program.

Google’s move is “very significant,” said Shuly Galili, executive director of the California-Israel Chamber of Commerce. “Google will have more accessibility to the talent and the know-how and what’s going on in that community,” she said, adding that she expects more U.S. tech companies to make similar moves in the future. Galili is involved in a new “accelerator” for Israeli startups called Upwest Labs that will be based in Silicon Valley, providing a chance for Israeli entrepreneurs to work on their projects and meet with investors and technology companies based in the U.S. Google is one of Upwest’s sponsors, she said.

Israel has long been known as a tech hub, sometimes called “start-up nation.” An Israeli company called PrimeSense is a key technology provider for Microsoft’s Kinect, a motion-activated video game system. Several years ago SanDisk bought Israel-based M-Systems, which made flash drives, for $1.5 billion. In the late 1990s, AOL bought an Israeli company that made ICQ, an instant-messaging service, for hundreds of millions of dollars.

“The Israeli developer community is hugely innovative and has the potential to create many more ground-breaking technological developments,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement on Monday. “This project was initiated with a desire to encourage entrepreneurship and to provide support at exactly the stage when developers are often most in need of it. The technology incubator is part of Google’s efforts to strengthen its connections with the developer community,” the spokeswoman said.

Numerous technology giants including Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Intel, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard also have offices or research centers in Israel.

Arab Author Anwar Malek...

The Arabs are afflicted with fantasies and obsolete bravado. False, empty bravado, which does no good to anybody. The Arabs invented or discovered the zero--but what did they do with it? Some of them sat on it, some put it on their heads, while others wore it around their waists and began shaking their hips, their belies, and their breasts in order to sell to the world the idea that modern Arabs are doing something

Today, the Arabs constitute nothing but thousands of zeros to the left. The Arabs have lost their worth, their humanity, their culture, and everything. There is nothing to suggest that the Arabs can be relied upon to produce anything. This false bravado is deeply rooted in the Arabs to an unimaginable degree. It is so deeply rooted that the Arabs believe they can go to the moon. If you asked your viewers whether the Arabs would be able to reach the moon by 2015, they would say, "Yes, the Arabs will get to the moon" By Allah, the Arabs will not go more than a few hundred kilometers from their doorsteps.

In all honesty, the Arabs are backward and are not fit for civilization at all. I am talking about the Arabs of today who have begun to export shawarma, falafel and lupin beans to Europe and they purport to be bringing something Arab to Europe

the reality of the Arabs is one of defeat, hitting rock bottom We are defeated, politically and militarily and economically, socially, and even psychologically. We have a discourse of conspiracy, and we blame everything on others. Take Egypt--What does Egypt--that superpower--have to offer? Nothing, it is incapable of doing anything. It has nothing but lupin beans. It is incapable of anything.

Look at how the Arabs live in the West. By Allah, they are a bad example. If you hear about thieves, they are always Arabs. Whenever a young man harasses a girl on the streets of London or Paris, he turns out to be an Arab. All the negative moral values are to be found in the Arab individual

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYgrziadQIo]Algerian author Anwar Malek talks about the arab world. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[P F Tinmore]

“Whatever became of the settlement lands? Such lost opportunities! The land has returned and what waste”, we hear time and again from Zionist apologists and their kind. “If only Gazans would make a life for themselves rather than blaming their problems on others!”

Leaving aside the obvious question of how a territory and its people whose every marker of sovereignty is effectively controlled by an occupying power that nevertheless refuses to recognize its responsibility as an occupier can “build a state” and “make a life”, the Gaza government has actually been doing some pretty impressive things.

Gaza Mom » Gaza; settlements; Israel; Hamas; agriculture

 

[PoliticalChic]

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study

Israel has one of the highest poverty rates among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of 33 rich nations which it joined in September 2010.

In terms of income equality, Israel has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the OECD, ranking alongside the United States, Mexico and Chile.

One in four Israelis 'living in poverty': study - Yahoo! News

In a related story, Tinny, I found this to be dispositive in the arguments over rectitude...
Jews paid some $14 million to give the Palestinians industry...

"It was perhaps an odd request to make of a man noted for his commitment to Israeli causes and his fierce criticism of the Palestinian Authority.

Please raise $14 million to help buy the Jewish settlers' lucrative greenhouses in the Gaza Strip so that the Palestinians can take them over when the settlers are gone. Oh, and can you get it done by the weekend, before the pullout starts? If not, the settlers will destroy the greenhouses on their way out of Gaza to keep them out of Arab hands."
How Old Friends of Israel Gave $14 Million to Help the Palestinians - New York Times



"Q: What's a quick way to tell Israelis from Palestinian miltants?
A: Israelis turn deserts into gardens, Palestinian militants turn gardens into deserts.

As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke but a statement of fact. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, some affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. [I say "misguided" because, as proven here, giving anything of value to any Islamic militant is like presenting a baboon with a delicite glass or china plate; you can expect it to be broken for amusement or out of sheer malice within the hour.] Within hours of the Palestinians' occupation of Gaza, the greenhouses were RBP. It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts. Now, of course, terrorist Mahmoud Abbas will be whining that he needs money from the United Nations, Europe, and of course the United States because he is unable to feed his people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275655,00.html

American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash.
Palestinian police stood by helplessly Tuesday as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and commanders complained they did not have enough manpower to protect the prized assets. In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said."
Palestinian Behavior in Gaza: Lord of the Flies starring adults instead of kids


Weren't you astounded at this behavior?
So...how does this play into any discussion of poverty?

It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts.

JERUSALEM – After months of intense negotiations recently culminating in a deal allowing for the transfer of Gaza's high-tech Jewish greenhouses to the Palestinians, several former Jewish residents who briefly returned to their farms told WND they were shocked to find most of their produce has died because Israel turned off the water in the area.

"I couldn't believe it. Almost all of my crops are dead, and the rest is dying," Anita Tucker, one of the pioneer farmers of Jewish Gaza told WND. "I hope the Palestinians aren't expecting fresh produce. ... A fortune in crops is now all gone."

Israel shuts off water, dries Gaza greenhouses

Not gettin' your response....no water, so how about we destroy millions in greenhouses?


If your hated neighbor moves, and leaves you his auto, but no gas....you would torch it?
Assuming you had no car, and could use the transportation.

Does it make any sense?

 

[JStone]

Arabs are the most fucked up losers in the history of the world.

Ivy League Cornell University Partners With Israel's Technion University To Create Genius School

The city's "genius school" competition heated up Tuesday when Cornell revealed it's teaming with Israel's Technion university on a proposal for an applied-sciences campus.

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is a globally ranked research university based in Haifa. Half the Israel companies on the NASDAQ are headed by Technion alumni. "The Technion is the driving force behind the miracle of Israel's technology economy," Cornell President David Skorton said in a statement.
Cornell teams with Israel's Technion university in bid to win city's 'genius school' campus - New York Daily News

The Economist Magazine: Arab World Self-Doomed To Failure

WHAT went wrong with the Arab world? Why is it so stuck behind the times? It is not an obviously unlucky region. Fatly endowed with oil, and with its people sharing a rich cultural, religious and linguistic heritage, it is faced neither with endemic poverty nor with ethnic conflict. But, with barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can.

One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And, over the past 20 years, growth in income per head, at an annual rate of 0.5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, it will take the average Arab 140 years to double his income, a target that some regions are set to reach in less than ten years. Stagnant growth, together with a fast-rising population, means vanishing jobs. Around 12m people, or 15% of the labour force, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25m by 2010.

Freedom. This deficit explains many of the fundamental things that are wrong with the Arab world: the survival of absolute autocracies; the holding of bogus elections; confusion between the executive and the judiciary (the report points out the close linguistic link between the two in Arabic); constraints on the media and on civil society; and a patriarchal, intolerant, sometimes suffocating social environment. The great wave of democratisation that has opened up so much of the world over the past 15 years seems to have left the Arabs untouched. Democracy is occasionally offered, but as a concession, not as a right. Freedom of expression and freedom of association are both sharply limited. Freedom House, an American-based monitor of political and civil rights, records that no Arab country has genuinely free media, and only three have “partly free”. The rest are not free

•Knowledge. “If God were to humiliate a human being,” wrote Imam Ali bin abi Taleb in the sixth century, “He would deny him knowledge.” Although the Arabs spend a higher percentage of GDP on education than any other developing region, it is not, it seems, well spent. The quality of education has deteriorated pitifully, and there is a severe mismatch between the labour market and the education system. Adult illiteracy rates have declined but are still very high: 65m adults are illiterate, almost two-thirds of them women. Some 10m children still have no schooling at all. One of the gravest results of their poor education is that the Arabs, who once led the world in science, are dropping ever further behind in scientific research and in information technology. Investment in research and development is less than one-seventh of the world average. Only 0.6% of the population uses the Internet, and 1.2% have personal computers.

•Women's status. The one thing that every outsider knows about the Arab world is that it does not treat its women as full citizens. How can a society prosper when it stifles half its productive potential? After all, even though women's literacy rates have trebled in the past 30 years, one in every two Arab women still can neither read nor write. Their participation in their countries' political and economic life is the lowest in the world.

Arab development: Self-doomed to failure | The Economist

 

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In a related story, Tinny, I found this to be dispositive in the arguments over rectitude...
Jews paid some $14 million to give the Palestinians industry...

"It was perhaps an odd request to make of a man noted for his commitment to Israeli causes and his fierce criticism of the Palestinian Authority.

Please raise $14 million to help buy the Jewish settlers' lucrative greenhouses in the Gaza Strip so that the Palestinians can take them over when the settlers are gone. Oh, and can you get it done by the weekend, before the pullout starts? If not, the settlers will destroy the greenhouses on their way out of Gaza to keep them out of Arab hands."
How Old Friends of Israel Gave $14 Million to Help the Palestinians - New York Times



"Q: What's a quick way to tell Israelis from Palestinian miltants?
A: Israelis turn deserts into gardens, Palestinian militants turn gardens into deserts.

As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke but a statement of fact. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, some affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. [I say "misguided" because, as proven here, giving anything of value to any Islamic militant is like presenting a baboon with a delicite glass or china plate; you can expect it to be broken for amusement or out of sheer malice within the hour.] Within hours of the Palestinians' occupation of Gaza, the greenhouses were RBP. It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts. Now, of course, terrorist Mahmoud Abbas will be whining that he needs money from the United Nations, Europe, and of course the United States because he is unable to feed his people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275655,00.html

American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash.
Palestinian police stood by helplessly Tuesday as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and commanders complained they did not have enough manpower to protect the prized assets. In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said."
Palestinian Behavior in Gaza: Lord of the Flies starring adults instead of kids


Weren't you astounded at this behavior?
So...how does this play into any discussion of poverty?

It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts.

JERUSALEM – After months of intense negotiations recently culminating in a deal allowing for the transfer of Gaza's high-tech Jewish greenhouses to the Palestinians, several former Jewish residents who briefly returned to their farms told WND they were shocked to find most of their produce has died because Israel turned off the water in the area.

"I couldn't believe it. Almost all of my crops are dead, and the rest is dying," Anita Tucker, one of the pioneer farmers of Jewish Gaza told WND. "I hope the Palestinians aren't expecting fresh produce. ... A fortune in crops is now all gone."

Israel shuts off water, dries Gaza greenhouses

Not gettin' your response....no water, so how about we destroy millions in greenhouses?


If your hated neighbor moves, and leaves you his auto, but no gas....you would torch it?
Assuming you had no car, and could use the transportation.

Does it make any sense?

The Palestinians took that stuff and rebuilt their own greenhouses that Israel destroyed.