Eroding Israel’s Legitimacy in the International Arena

[Marc39]

I'm sure any nation could achieve that by being propped up by the US. Hell, look at how post ww2 Japan turned out. And, given how the international community is more inclined to listen to GERMANY instead of a jewish welfare state you probably have less to brag about than your mommy told you.


and it's true.. his way sure was mysterious as he was raking the life out of 8 million jews in less than a decade. Mysterious indeed.

And, the US didn't prop up Germany after the War, numbnuts?

Today, Israel has more technology companies listed on NASDAQ than any other country outside the US.

Israel is the fastest growing, one of the most dynamic, entrepreneurial and innovation-based economies oon the planet that barely got hit by the global economic crisis in 2008.

More Israeli technology companies are listed on NASDAQ than all of Europe combined

More Israeli technology companies listed on NASDAQ than all of Japan, India, China and Korea combined.

More global venture capital is invested in Israel each year on a per capita basis than the US, 2 1/2 more than the US, 30 times more than Europe

Israeli-based Teva is the world's largest generic pharmaceuticals company in the world, with a market capitalization of $50 billion.

How are you doing in life?

again, all of these things are the SOLE product of being the child bouncing on the knee of America currently. Nothing more, nothing less. We saw the same in any number of other nations being granted US attention.

after all, we BOTH know how you'd react to having that umbilical cord severed, don't we shlomo?


and, again, I'm doing quite well. In fact, well enough to give your little bastion of killer jews as much blank check support as it takes to fool you into thinking you are important!

Wrong, again, ignorant, little munchkin. Israel's success is based on its intellectual capital. All the money in the world cannot substitute for intellectual brilliance, creativity and industriousness. Egypt received tens of billions in aid from the US, but, Egypt remains a backward piece of shit.

David Brooks, New York Times...

Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates.

Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, but 21 percent of the Ivy League student bodies, 26 percent of the Kennedy Center honorees, 37 percent of the Academy Award-winning directors, 38 percent of those on a recent Business Week list of leading philanthropists, 51 percent of the Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction.

In his book, “The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement,” Steven L. Pease lists some of the explanations people have given for this record of achievement. The Jewish faith encourages a belief in progress and personal accountability. It is learning-based, not rite-based.

Most Jews gave up or were forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages; their descendants have been living off of their wits ever since. They have often migrated, with a migrant’s ambition and drive. They have congregated around global crossroads and have benefited from the creative tension endemic in such places.

No single explanation can account for the record of Jewish achievement. The odd thing is that Israel has not traditionally been strongest where the Jews in the Diaspora were strongest. Instead of research and commerce, Israelis were forced to devote their energies to fighting and politics.

Milton Friedman used to joke that Israel disproved every Jewish stereotype. People used to think Jews were good cooks, good economic managers and bad soldiers; Israel proved them wrong.

But that has changed. Benjamin Netanyahu’s economic reforms, the arrival of a million Russian immigrants and the stagnation of the peace process have produced a historic shift. The most resourceful Israelis are going into technology and commerce, not politics. This has had a desultory effect on the nation’s public life, but an invigorating one on its economy.

Tel Aviv has become one of the world’s foremost entrepreneurial hot spots. Israel has more high-tech start-ups per capita than any other nation on earth, by far. It leads the world in civilian research-and-development spending per capita. It ranks second behind the U.S. in the number of companies listed on the Nasdaq. Israel, with seven million people, attracts as much venture capital as France and Germany combined.

As Dan Senor and Saul Singer write in “Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle,” Israel now has a classic innovation cluster, a place where tech obsessives work in close proximity and feed off each other’s ideas.

Because of the strength of the economy, Israel has weathered the global recession reasonably well. The government did not have to bail out its banks or set off an explosion in short-term spending. Instead, it used the crisis to solidify the economy’s long-term future by investing in research and development and infrastructure, raising some consumption taxes, promising to cut other taxes in the medium to long term. Analysts at Barclays write that Israel is “the strongest recovery story” in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Israel’s technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world.

This shift in the Israeli identity has long-term implications. Netanyahu preaches the optimistic view: that Israel will become the Hong Kong of the Middle East, with economic benefits spilling over into the Arab world. And, in fact, there are strands of evidence to support that view in places like the West Bank and Jordan.

But it’s more likely that Israel’s economic leap forward will widen the gap between it and its neighbors. All the countries in the region talk about encouraging innovation. Some oil-rich states spend billions trying to build science centers. But places like Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv are created by a confluence of cultural forces, not money. The surrounding nations do not have the tradition of free intellectual exchange and technical creativity.

For example, between 1980 and 2000, Egyptians registered 77 patents in the U.S. Saudis registered 171. Israelis registered 7,652.

The tech boom also creates a new vulnerability. As Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic has argued, these innovators are the most mobile people on earth. To destroy Israel’s economy, Iran doesn’t actually have to lob a nuclear weapon into the country. It just has to foment enough instability so the entrepreneurs decide they had better move to Palo Alto, where many of them already have contacts and homes. American Jews used to keep a foothold in Israel in case things got bad here. Now Israelis keep a foothold in the U.S.

During a decade of grim foreboding, Israel has become an astonishing success story, but also a highly mobile one.

 

[Shogun]

repeat REPEAT REPEAT!





well, at least you learned the lessons of your german captors and hope that bending reality around the propaganda is merely a matter of REPEATING yourself..


now go pour some concrete, blue collar joo.

 

[Marc39]

repeat REPEAT REPEAT!





well, at least you learned the lessons of your german captors and hope that bending reality around the propaganda is merely a matter of REPEATING yourself..


now go pour some concrete, blue collar joo.

Sadly, you have nothing to show for your own sad, failed life, except, posting infantile remarks in chat rooms to try to compensate for your low self-esteem.

 

[Shogun]

repeat REPEAT REPEAT!





well, at least you learned the lessons of your german captors and hope that bending reality around the propaganda is merely a matter of REPEATING yourself..


now go pour some concrete, blue collar joo.

Sadly, you have nothing to show for your own sad, failed life, except, posting infantile remarks in chat rooms to try to compensate for your low self-esteem.

... says the gazilionaire concrete pourer......

 

[Programusic]

Marc, you should stop wasting your time arguing with the dregs of society.

 

[Marc39]

Marc, you should stop wasting your time arguing with the dregs of society.

Point taken. He's toast, anyway.

 

[Shogun]

Marc, you should stop wasting your time arguing with the dregs of society.

ruh roh... some noobtoast motherfucker has an opinion to post...

someone call out the fucking national guard.


*yawn*


anyone want to flip a coin and guess if this guy is a Hagee-like christian or a zionist jew?

 

[Shogun]

Marc, you should stop wasting your time arguing with the dregs of society.

Point taken. He's toast, anyway.

yea... because your fancy french breakfast toast flown in from Europe each morning constantly reminds you that you are a laughable jew, right?

 

[Marc39]

Marc, you should stop wasting your time arguing with the dregs of society.

Point taken. He's toast, anyway.

yea... because your fancy french breakfast toast flown in from Europe each morning constantly reminds you that you are a laughable jew, right?

Go back to sleep.