Proportionally, Israel has more university graduates, publishes more academic papers and patents more products than any nation in the world. It has the largest concentration of hi-tech companies outside of Silicon Valley, and twice as many engineers as the U.S.
Running an anti-virus program on your computer? Israel invented them. Talking on a chat line? Israel invented ICQ. Using a cell phone? Israeli companies pioneered voicemail messages, text messages and the transmission of pictures of movie clips. Hate when you call a company and they tell you the conversation is being monitored "for training and quality assurances purposes"? Blame Israel: They invented that technology. Have a relative who had a CAT scan or an MRI test? Those life-saving machines were partly developed in Israel.
Besides Cyprus, Israel is the only country in the Middle East given a ranking of "free" by Freedom House, the esteemed non-partisan organization. Arabs and Muslims living in Israel are treated like second-class citizens, and they still have more rights than they do anywhere else in the Middle East. Israel is "a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom and an oasis of liberty," as Bill Clinton once said.
Those who say Israel shouldn't have been born sacrifice the Jewish state to appease fanatics. But in 1945, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jews said, "We never again will be the world's punching bag." We meant it.
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Israel Won't Be The Scapegoat
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This guy has sayanim written all over him.
I personally do not want to see Israel destroyed, and he is right, a lot of really good things come out of Israel. Israel, like any other country in the world, contains a wealth in it's citizenry.
But Israel was founded on hate, blood, and racism. Israel has been hijacked by zionists, who believe that the land they stand on is theirs according to God, and they have the right to kill and oppress the arabs who dare say they were there first.
The only solution is for the Israelis to learn to live in peace with the arabs, and I think the people are calling for Israel's destruction argue that this is an impossibility (and who can blame the arabs for so much hate, considering what was done to them).
I, however, am optimistic. I think both can co-exist peacefully. A lot of zionists in power need to lose their jobs and go to jail first, though. In short, there needs to be a revolution in Israel, and the moderate young people need to seize their country and steer it back onto a course of peaceful prosperity. They can do this while remaining strong enough to deter any arab aggression. They DO have the bomb, after all.
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