Did the UN just admit that Israel is among the happiest places on Earth? | Fox News
In case you missed it, Sunday was International Happiness Day.
As usual, it was accompanied by a U.N. study of the state of international happiness, including the ranking of countries from most to least.
This year’s top ten are pretty much the ones you would expect: Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Canada, Holland, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. All are peaceful, long established, prosperous democracies with homogenous populations, located in the calmest regions of the First World.
And then, at number 11, comes Israel...
When the UN happiness report was published it shocked Israel’s post-Zionist intelligentsia, for whom it is doctrine that Israel is a miserable place that gets worse by the day.
But the elite’s effort to debunk the UN finding ran into a flurry of other Happiness Day reports.
Hardest to refute was from the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD), a club of the world’s most advanced nations. Its 2015 survey examined “general satisfaction with life” in its member states, on a scale of ten. The OECP average was 6.6. The Danes and the Swiss finished neck-and-neck at 7.5. Israel finished in a three-way tie for second place with Norway and Finland...
Year by year, Israel gets bigger, stronger, richer, more technologically advanced and better accepted by the countries that matter (including regional Sunni regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that were once patrons of Palestinian “resistance”).
And Israelis get happier...
The Palestinians need to internalize this. So do American policy-makers and anyone else banking on life becoming so intolerable that Israel gives up on itself. With apologies to Tom Friedman, here is Rule Number 1: Israel is very good at turning bitter Palestinian lemons into sweet, satisfying lemonade.
In case you missed it, Sunday was International Happiness Day.
As usual, it was accompanied by a U.N. study of the state of international happiness, including the ranking of countries from most to least.
This year’s top ten are pretty much the ones you would expect: Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Canada, Holland, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. All are peaceful, long established, prosperous democracies with homogenous populations, located in the calmest regions of the First World.
And then, at number 11, comes Israel...
When the UN happiness report was published it shocked Israel’s post-Zionist intelligentsia, for whom it is doctrine that Israel is a miserable place that gets worse by the day.
But the elite’s effort to debunk the UN finding ran into a flurry of other Happiness Day reports.
Hardest to refute was from the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD), a club of the world’s most advanced nations. Its 2015 survey examined “general satisfaction with life” in its member states, on a scale of ten. The OECP average was 6.6. The Danes and the Swiss finished neck-and-neck at 7.5. Israel finished in a three-way tie for second place with Norway and Finland...
Year by year, Israel gets bigger, stronger, richer, more technologically advanced and better accepted by the countries that matter (including regional Sunni regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that were once patrons of Palestinian “resistance”).
And Israelis get happier...
The Palestinians need to internalize this. So do American policy-makers and anyone else banking on life becoming so intolerable that Israel gives up on itself. With apologies to Tom Friedman, here is Rule Number 1: Israel is very good at turning bitter Palestinian lemons into sweet, satisfying lemonade.
